MORE CHARGES ADDED IN BOULDER

The man accused of killing 10 people inside a Boulder grocery store will face more than 40 additional charges in connection with the March 22 attack. He already was facing 10 counts of first-degree murder.

The 21-year-old Arvada man accused of killing 10 people inside a Boulder grocery store last month now faces more than 40 additional felony charges in connection with the attack.

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, who was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and a count of attempted murder, now faces 54 total charges, according to a motion filed Wednesday in Boulder County District Court.

The prosecutor’s office requested that Alissa be charged with 32 new counts of attempted first-degree murder. The attempted-murder victims identified in the motion are 11 police officers — including two who made initial entry into the store with slain Officer Eric Talley and nine others who participated in the second entry — and seven civilians. In some cases, a victim was attached to multiple counts.

Alissa also will be charged with one count of assault and 10 counts of carrying prohibited large-capacity magazines.

Authorities believe Alissa brought two guns to the King Soopers on Table Mesa Drive in Boulder on March 22 and opened fire just after 2:30 p.m., killing customers, store employees and a responding police officer. Those inside the store hid or fled, with many escaping out the back.

People hiding inside the store said the shooter’s violence punctuated long stretches of silence, when all they could hear was the store’s automated announcements and music, or the occasional ring of a cellphone.

Boulder police officers arrived within minutes and exchanged gunfire with the shooter; police said no one else was shot or killed after that initial exchange, which killed Talley.

Alissa was arrested about an hour after the attack began; he had been shot in the leg. He had stripped to his underwear and put down his weapons before he surrendered to police when they entered the store.

A motive for the shooting at

tack is not clear. At his first court appearance, Alissa’s public defender said her team needed time to evaluate “the nature and depth of (his) mental illness.”

Alissa is scheduled to appear in court again May 25.

Those killed in the attack were Denny Stong, 20; Neven Stanisic, 23; Rikki Olds, 25; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Teri Leiker, 51; Talley, 51; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Lynn Murray, 62; and Jody Waters, 65.

Shelly Bradbury: 303-954-1785, sbradbury@denverpost.com or @shellybradbury