On the 23rd, a sign indicating’When is gun control? Boulder = AP Newsis
It turns out that a shooter in Colorado, USA, purchased a pistol he had at the time of the crime on the day of the Atlanta serial shootings six days ago. Coincidentally, his age was 21, the same as the Atlanta case.
On the 23rd (local time), according to the statement of arrest of gunman Ahmad Alyssa reported by the Associated Press on the 23rd (local time), Alisa purchased the’Ruger AR-556′ semi-automatic pistol on the 16th. The pistol has a different firing system from the AR-15 series semi-automatic rifle that Alisa used for the day before, but has similar functions and is only 10.5 inches (26.67 cm) long, making it easy to hide in a coat or bag, the Washington Post reported. . WP added, “How Alisa got the firearm or used it at the crime site has not been disclosed.”
The 16th, when Alisa bought a firearm, was the day of the Atlanta shootings in which eight people, including six Asian women, including Koreans, were killed. Also, Alisa is 21 years old, the same as Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in this case. However, there is still no circumstance to conjecture that the Atlanta shootings affected Alisa’s crimes.
According to the statement, Alisa was heavily armed with a black AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and semi-automatic pistol during the crime the previous day. He also wore a green tactical vest with a magazine and bulletproof function.
The AP reported that the weapon Aly used was the AR-15, a lightweight semi-automatic rifle, and CNN broadcast also reported that the AR-15 series weapon modified in the form of an arm brace attachment was a criminal tool.
The AR-15 series rifle, which is an easy-to-use, improved military firearm M16, is a weapon frequently used by firearms rioters aiming for mass destruction. The police recovered all the tools of the crime at the scene of the incident.
A photo of himself posted on Facebook on the 22nd, suspected by Ahmed Alyssa, who was suspected of a firearms incident at King Superus, a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. AFP Yonhap News
Shooter Alisa appears to be an immigrant from Syria. In Alisa’s Facebook profile, introduced by the US Internet media Daily Beast, he wrote that he was born in Syria in 1999 and came to the United States in 2002, and that he likes wrestling and documentaries.
Alisa posted a post in July 2019 stating that she was afraid that someone was aiming her cell phone because of her hatred of Islam. “If racist Islamic haters stop hacking my phone and let me live a normal life,” he wrote. In March 2019, when New Zealand white supremacists fired firearms in a mosque, “Muslims were not the victims of a single shooter. They were also victims of the entire Islamic hate industry.”
On the 22nd, police arrested and investigated Alyssa for killing 10 people by shooting a gun at a grocery store in Boulder’s King Superus, Colorado. Alyssa was charged with first-degree murder.
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