Boulder residents remember Officer Eric Talley, shooting victims with memorials

Coloradans have created makeshift memorials after a mass shooting killed 10 folks at a grocery retailer in Boulder on Monday.

People positioned flowers, messages and different mementos atop a police automobile on the Boulder Police Department on Tuesday in remembrance of fallen Officer Eric Talley, 51, who was first to reach at the scene of the shooting and was killed within the line of obligation.

“Thank you #Boulder,” the Boulder Police Department tweeted Tuesday with a photograph of the memorial. “Your kindness means more than we can say right now.”

Homer Talley, 74, described his son as a faithful father who “knew the Lord.” He had seven youngsters, ages 7 to twenty.

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“We know where he is,” his father instructed The Associated Press from his ranch in central Texas. “He loved his family more than anything. He wasn’t afraid of dying. He was afraid of putting them through it.”

The different useless ranged in age from 20 to 65. They have been recognized as Denny Stong, 20; Neven Stanisic, 23; Rikki Olds, 25; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Teri Leiker, 51; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Lynn Murray, 62; and Jodi Waters, 65.

More Boulder residents erected a memorial on a fence close to King Soopers on Tuesday to remember the ten victims, according to native information outlet CBS 9. 

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About 100 folks on Tuesday night milled about on the memorial adorned with wreaths, candles, banners studying “#Boulderstrong” and 10 crosses with blue hearts and the victims’ names. 

Louis Saxton, who was on the grocery retailer on the time of the shooting, introduced his cello to the fence memorial to play music in honor of the victims, CBS 9 reported.

“It’s my happy place. I wanted to bring as much happiness as I can to a place of mourning,” he instructed the outlet.

Police on Tuesday recognized Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, because the shooter, and charged him with 10 counts of homicide.

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The FBI had previously linked Alissa to a different particular person whom the Bureau was investigating, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing regulation enforcement officers.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.