A gunman killed 10 people, including the law enforcement officer who was first on-scene, at a Colorado grocery store Monday, and those who were able to make it out of the King Soopers grocery store described a chaotic scene as people ran for their lives.
The police have not released information about the alleged shooter, who is in custody and hospitalized due to an injury. They have not announced the names of the victims, other than 51-year-old Eric Talley, who had been with the department for over a decade.
“He just came in and started shooting,” a witness who asked to remain anonymous told the Denver Post, and his roommate, who wasn’t identified, said the gunman “let off a couple of shots, then was silent, and then he let off a couple more. He wasn’t spraying.”
TEN PEOPLE DEAD AFTER COLORADO SUPERMARKET SHOOTING
Another witness, Ryan Borowski, said he went to the store to buy some ice cream, but once inside, he went down a different aisle after changing his mind. It was then he heard the first gunshots.
“I was going to get a Ben & Jerry’s, and that was on the east side of the store, and I walked in on the west side. And I changed my mind, decided not to, went down a different aisle and pretty much the moment after I made that decision, I heard the first two shots," he said on CNN. "By the third shot, I was running with everyone else toward the back."
Another witness, who was only identified as David, said he was picking up sushi at the store and heard the gunshots ring out.
"I knew every gunshot that was shot went into somebody," he told Fox 31 Denver. "I could hear … I could tell when a gunshot doesn’t ricochet, but I also can tell when a gunshot goes into somebody."
Another witness, Steven McHugh, said his son-in-law and his two teenage granddaughters were in the grocery store while their father received a COVID-19 vaccination, adding that his family had witnessed people get shot, but they managed to hide in a closet until police rescued them.
“They’re in seventh and eighth grade,” he said of his granddaughters’ experience. “This is completely fricking terrifying. This is unacceptable.”
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Boulder Police Chief Maris Harold called Talley's actions “heroic.”
"It seemed like all of us had imagined we’d be in a situation like this at some point in our lives,” said James Bentz, another witness.
