US: Opening arguments in the trial of the guy who murdered ten people at a grocery store in Colorado are set for today

US: The trial of a mentally ill man who shot and murdered ten people at a grocery store in Colorado in 2021 is set to begin on Thursday.

According to the police, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa killed the majority of the victims in little over a minute by focusing on persons who were moving, both inside and outside the shop in Boulder, a college town.

Nobody questions his identity as the shooter, not even Alissa’s attorneys. It is anticipated that the three-week trial will center on whether or not Alissa was legally sane—that is, capable of understanding the difference between right and wrong—at the time of the shooting. Alissa was diagnosed with schizophrenia after the incident.

In addition to many charges of attempted murder, Alissa is accused with ten counts of first-degree murder and of owning six high-capacity ammunition magazine devices, which were outlawed in Colorado after repeated mass shootings.

It will be up to the prosecutors to demonstrate his sanity and demonstrate that Alissa knew what he was doing and planned to murder people at the King Soopers shop.

We don’t know why Alissa committed the horrific shooting

The closest thing to a potential motivation that has been made public to yet was when a mental health assessor said in testimony at a competency hearing last year that Alissa had purchased weapons with the intention of carrying out a mass massacre and that he may have intended to be killed by police.

In a court document, the defense said that his family members had told him he would talk to himself as if he were speaking to someone who wasn’t there and that he erroneously thought the FBI was after him. Prosecutors, however, point out that Alissa had never had mental health treatment before and had been working up to 60 hours a week before the shooting, which they said was not feasible for someone with a serious mental condition.

Experts decided that Alissa was unable of comprehending court processes and providing assistance for his defense, which is why the trial has been postponed. However, after Alissa’s recovery from being forced to take medication, Judge Ingrid Bakke declared in October that he was mentally competent, allowing the case to continue.