There is a contemporary political compulsion to immediately add terrible shooting to the ongoing debates about weapon types and the conditions for their acquisition. Before lawmakers decide on an answer, they should spend some time trying to figure out why Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa allegedly murdered 10 people in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado on Monday.
Ray Sanchez, Blake Ellis and Amir Vera from CNN report::
Alissa, whose family emigrated from Syria, may have suffered from mental illness, according to his 34-year-old brother Ali Aliwi Alissa. The brother told CNN Tuesday that high school bullies made fun of Alissa’s name and were Muslim. Alissa had become increasingly “paranoid” by 2014, believing that, according to his brother, he was being followed and followed. At some point the young man covered the camera on his computer with tape so that he couldn’t be seen, said the brother who lives with Alissa … “We watched him closely in high school. He would say, “Someone is following me, someone is investigating me.” And we say, ‘Come on man. There is nothing.’ … He was just joining himself, “added the brother.
Shelly Bradbury, Conrad Swanson and John Meyer report in the Denver Post that Mr. Alissa was “violent, quick-tempered, and paranoid,” according to his former classmates at Arvada West High School, Colorado, which he graduated in 2018.
“It was scary being here,” said Dayton Marvel, a teammate on the wrestling team. Alissa once had an outbreak threatening to kill people during an intra-team match, Marvel said. “In his senior year, during wrestle-offs to see who’s doing college, he actually lost his match and left the team and yelled in the wrestling room that he was going to kill everyone,” Marvel said. “Nobody believed him. We were all kind of crazy about it, but nobody did anything about it. “…” He would talk about being Muslim and if someone tries something he would file a hate crime and say they make it up, “said Marvel.” It was a crazy deal. I just know that he is was a pretty cool kid until something made him angry, and whatever made him angry, he went over the line – way too far. ”
At least one high school incident resulted in third-degree assault misdemeanors without jail time. Jesse Paul Reports in the Colorado sun:
Arrest documents from the encounter indicate that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa stood up in a classroom, walked over to the victim and “chilled” him in the head. When the victim fell to the ground, Alissa climbed on top of him and hit him several more times on the head. “No witnesses could see or hear a reason why (Alissa) hit (the victim),” the documents read. “(Alissa) said (the victim) made fun of him and called him a race name weeks earlier.”
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