Shooter’s sanity at issue as trial begins in Colorado supermarket mass killing [Video]

By Colleen Slevin And Mead Gruver The Associated Press

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man who gunned down 10 people in a supermarket mass shooting was not insane when he unleashed terror in a Colorado college town but a calculated killer who knew what he did was wrong, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday in an opening statement swiftly disputed by the defense attorney.

The trial of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa began after years of legal wrangling over his mental state on the day of the March 2021 shooting in Boulder and will likely focus on whether he was legally sane.