Thread by @bri_sacks

There was a shooting at a King Scoopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Police are still on the scene
buzzfeednews.com/article/salvad…

My good friend lives right across the street and said she started hearing shots rapid fire around 2:30/2:40 pm and “saw people running away, wailing crying”

Here outside King Scooper’s in Boulder, where a shooter opened fire at the supermarket about three hours ago.

Two Boulder police officers here told me that an officer died in the shooting. A PIO here would not confirm that just yet.

Officers have been looking into cars in the parking lot and on the street with flashlights

Neven and Quin Sloan came into the store two minutes away from their house to buy some vanilla waifers. Neven said he heard a “big bang” outside the front doors and that the shots were drawn out. He found Quin and ran out

Angel, 21, is waiting to see if one of her closest friends from high school who works at the Starbucks inside is ok. She heard there was a shooting and ran over. He’s been there for her through some traumatizing and difficult times, and she’s trying not to think the worst

Angel, Neven, and David Pendlebery have been huddled here for hours (it’s ~30 degrees right now). David shops here every day and was about to buy sushi when the shooting started. He ran into the bathroom and hid behind a toilet for about 20 mins, until it stopped, before escaping

An update: we charged Angel’s phone and heard from her friend. He’s ok and at the police station, but she said he told her he saw two of his friends get shot (this is unconfirmed by officials, who haven’t released much info). She is now going home to get warm

Boulder police confirm multiple people dead in King Scooper’s shooting, including one of their own officer’s

A person of interest is in custody

Officials are very early into their investigation and don’t have details about a motive or if there were multiple shooters.

Only person who sustained “significant injuries” was the suspect, officials said.

Police will not yet say how many people died in the shooting

For hours, police cars have been lined up outside the King Scoopers with their lights silently flashing, which I was told is to honor an officer killed in the line of duty

Horrible update: Boulder police chief says 10 people died in the King Scoopers shooting.

The officer who died was Eric Talley, one of the first on the scene and who was “heroic” in saving lives

Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said that the department started getting reports about a person with a patrol rifle around 2:30 pm. Officer Talley was the first officer to arrive on the scene, “and he was fatally shot.”

Officer Eric Talley was 51. He leaves behind 7 children, the youngest of whom is 7, his father told ABC News

“He was looking for a job to keep himself off of the front lines,” his dad said “He didn’t want to put his family through something like this...”

thedenverchannel.com/news/local-new…

Boulder police chief, voice cracking, reads the names of the 10 victims of the king scoopers shooting. Their ages range from 20 years old to 65.

Steve Weber, a neighbor of the Boulder shooter, said FBI were here last night around 9:30 pm and police were yelling through a bullhorn outside the suspect’s home to come out

Steve Weber has lived here for 17 years and said the family moved in about 1.5 years ago. They seemed nice, but “weird,” b/c a lot of people live inside and there’s always a lot of “activity.” Several kids and a teen boy were usually outside, but the adults kept to themselves

Kirk Cerise said people in the quiet, standard suburb neighborhood keep to themselves. But he recognized the suspect when he was watching the shooting on YouTube, but didn’t really believe it. Then when he saw the burgundy Mercedes, the same car parked on his street, it sank in

Kirk Cerise also confirmed other neighbors’ accounts that a slew of FBI and other law enforcement vehicles flooded the street last night around 9:30, “lit the house up with spotlights,” and told people inside to come out immediately.

Posters and notes at the memorial outside the King Scoopers, asking when will these killings end and listing the names of the 10 victims

Someone left this note: “I was there that day. It could have been me. It could have been any of us. When will this nightmare end?” With their King Scooper’s receipt. They checked out at 2:17 pm, about 10 minutes before the shooting started

Damien is a manager at a King Scooper’s in Broomfield, 9 miles away. He was looking through the fence for a long time. He said he and other district managers all came here after work and brought flowers. He said his workers are struggling bc some have family members who work here

A King Scooper’s employee comforts a peer who broke down and sobbed in front of the names of the victims. He left his King Scooper’s hat and a sweatshirt.

#Boulder

Also, apologies** I am moving fast, very tired, and my phone keeps autocorrecting King Scoopers. It’s King Soopers. I need more coffee

“You didn’t deserve this ending.”

These notes by kids are especially hard.

What’s eerie is that many shoppers’ cars are still in the parking lot. Some have their windows broken, trunks open

Stephen Parlato, 66, is a retired youth mental health counselor. He made this sign a few years go. He says Columbine affected him greatly bc he saw how it “terrified” his young patients

Standing here, he says he is angry and sad

“There are a lot of guns in this state,”he said