Jurors begin deliberations in trial of man who killed 10 people at Colorado supermarket

Associated Press

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Jurors have begun deliberating whether a mentally ill man who said he heard “killing voices” should be convicted of murder for fatally shooting 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 or be found not guilty by reason of insanity. The jurors got the case of Ahmad Alissa Friday afternoon. In closing arguments, prosecutors said Alissa was legally sane and knew the difference between right and wrong. They pointed out that he used steel-piercing bullets and an optic sight to help him kill as many people as possible. But defense lawyer Kathryn Herold underscored that Alissa told state psychologists he heard voices that were yelling in his head. Alissa told them that he thought the voices might stop if he committed a mass shooting.