On Monday, a jury found the mass shooter who killed ten people at a Boulder King Soopers in 2021 guilty on all 55 counts facing the defendant . The gunman pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
The trial started the first week of September and was over three years in the making. Families and friends of the ten people who were killed packed into the courtroom, day after day, in honor of the people they loved.
The ten people killed on March 22, 2021, were Neven Stanisic, Kevin Mahoney, Tralona Bartkowiak, Rikki Olds, Denny Stong, Lynn Murray, Teri Leiker, Jody Waters, Suzanne Fountain, and Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley.
Talley was one of the first three police officers to enter the store, knowing they were running directly into danger. Kirstin Brooks knows her older brother ran into that store absolutely furious.
“Eric was not afraid. Eric did not suffer. Eric was furious,” Brooks said the day after the guilty verdict. “I saw his eyes on the video when he ran in, and I would not want to be in front of my brother at that moment. He was furious.”