Boulder shooting: Biden calls for immediate gun control action as details on suspected shooter emerge

Other than that of Officer Talley, no further names of the deceased will be released until their loved ones have been informed, says the Boulder Police Department.

Here’s Maroosha Muzaffar with everything we know so far.

Here’s some more political reaction to yesterday’s events from local representative Diana DeGette, who makes an emotional appeal for gun reform.

Here’s more from the aftermath of yesterday’s attack in Boulder.

The once all-powerful National Rifle Association, which has been hit by infighting and funding issues in recent years, has issued this response to yesterday’s atrocity, quoting the Second Amendment to the Constitution and once again implicitly arguing that more guns are the solution, not fewer.

As Insider points out this morning, yesterday’s attack in the Colorado university town is only the latest tragedy of this stripe to strike the mountain state within the last two decades.

The 1999 Columbine High School massacre took place just 33 miles away, in which senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher and injured 24 others.

The cinema in which James Holmes opened fire during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises is also nearby, a shocking incident in which he shot dead 12 audience members and wounded 70 more.

Gun violence also erupted at Deer Creek Middle School in 2010 and at Arapahoe High School in 2013, both within an hour of King Soopers.

The 2017 Thornton shooting - in which a gunman walked into a Walmart and shot three people dead near the checkouts before fleeing - also happened just 20 miles away.

Most recently, two shootings took place in the vicinity of the supermarket in 2019, one involving a 17-year-old gunman opening fire at a JC Penney store in the Aurora Town Center Mall, the other taking place at the STEM School in Highlands Ranch where nine students were shot and one died.

Eric Talley, who was killed by the gunman yesterday, was 51-years-old and reportedly the father of seven children, joining the force 11 years ago.

His colleagues took part in a spectacular procession through the city streets last night in his memory.

Here’s James Crump’s story.

Eyewitness Ryan Borowski has been speaking to CNN’s Alisyn Camerota this morning.

More details are emerging about the victims, including a police officer, Eric Talley.

The 51-year-old, who was among the 10 killed, had seven children and had been looking for a new job in order to protect his family, his father said.

Mr Talley was the first on the scene, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said, lauding his intervention as “heroic”.

He had joined the police just over a decade ago and had been looking to eventually find a new line of work, his father Homer said in a statement issued to local media.

“He was looking for a job to keep himself off of the front lines and was learning to be a drone operator. He didn’t want to put his family through something like this,” Homer Talley said.

“He had seven children. The youngest is seven-years-old. He loved his kids and his family more than anything.”

Second Amendment advocate Lauren Boebert is facing criticism for tweeting about Joe Biden’s “lid” as dozens of police rushed to a shooting at a Colorado grocery store.

“The White House just called a lid at 1.13 pm today. Biden is back in the basement, figuratively at least,” Ms Boebert tweeted.

“Meanwhile, the country is in chaos and the border is coming apart at the seams.”

The tweet, which had 6,500 likes, had 2,500 comments that heavily focused on the timing of her criticism over Joe Biden’s daily schedule.

Here is the story.

Kamala Harris has described the Boulder shooting as “absolutely baffling” as she paid tribute to the victims who were “living their lives, not bothering anybody”.

A pool report quoted the US vice president as saying: “It’s absolutely baffling, it’s 10 people going about their day living their lives, not bothering anybody.

“A police officer who is performing his duties, and with great courage and heroism.”