The family of a 25-year-old woman who was among the 10 people gunned down in the Boulder grocery store massacre have called for the ‘monster’ gunman to ‘fry and burn in hell’.
Rikki Olds was among the 10 people killed at the King Soopers outlet in Boulder on Monday afternoon when the gunman, since identified by police as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, opened fire.
Boulder Police officer Eric Talley, 51, was also among those killed after he responded to the shooting.
The other victims include: Denny Strong, 20, Neven Stanisic, 23, Tralona Bartkowiak, 49, Suzanne Fountain, 59, Teri Leiker, 51, Kevin Mahoney, 61, Lynn Murray, 62, and Jody Waters, 65.
Olds’ family shared several tributes on social media on Tuesday as her grieving relatives called for the gunman to ‘burn in hell’.
‘We lost our beloved Rikki Olds to the monster who shot up the king soopers in Boulder CO yesterday may his rotten a** fry and burn in hell,’ her aunt Lori Olds said.
Olds worked at the store as an assistant front-end manager.
The family of Rikki Olds confirmed that she was among the 10 people killed at a King Soopers outlet in Boulder on Monday afternoon when the gunman opened fire
Another employee Teri Leiker, whose boyfriend also worked at the store, was also gunned down.
Leiker worked there for some 30 years, according to her friend Lexi Knutson.
‘She loved going to work and enjoyed everything about being there,’ Knutson told Reuters.
‘Her boyfriend and her had been good friends and began dating in the fall of 2019. He was working yesterday too. He is alive.’
Knuston said she believed Leiker’s job had come through a special needs work program.
The gunman first opened fire in the parking lot of the store before going inside where witnesses described him shooting at staff and shoppers.
Survivors hid in food aisles and sheltered while trying to listen to which direction he was coming from, and if he was reloading what they described as an AR-15 rifle.
Police, over radio scanners, told each other to take ‘head shots only’ after reports that he might have been wearing a tactical vest.
The terror went on for around 20 minutes before he was taken into custody.
Tralona Bartkowiak, 49, (pictured) was among those gunned down inside the store
Boulder Police officer Eric Talley, 51, was among the 10 people gunned down in Boulder, Colorado on Monday. Talley’s sister Kirstin paid tribute to her brother with a heartbreaking childhood photo of them both
Talley was among the first officers on the scene following reports of the active shooting.
In the aftermath of the massacre, Talley’s father said the slain officer had been learning to become a drone operator so he could step away from the front line.
‘He didn’t want to put his family through something like this,’ his father Homer Talley said.
Talley is survived by his his wife and their seven children. Their youngest child is seven years old.
‘He loved his kids and his family more than anything,’ his father said.
Talley had been working as an officer for just over a decade after enrolling in the Aurora’s Police Training Academy when he was 40 years old.
Talley, who had a master’s degree, had quit his stable IT job in 2010 after one of his close friends died in a DUI crash.
GUNMAN: Ahmad Alissa, the 21-year-old gunman from Monday’s shooting at a Colorado grocery store. He is shown, left, wearing wrestling medals from the North American Grappling Association, in an undated Facebook photo
Police have not yet confirmed whether the gunman is the man who was seen being led out of the store, shirtless and barefoot, with blood dripping down one of his legs