A gunman killed 10 people on Monday afternoon at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. The 10 people killed ranged in age from 20 to 65 and included shoppers, workers and a police officer.
Here is what we know about those who died.
Police officer Eric Talley, 51
Talley was the first Boulder officer to arrive at the King Soopers supermarket on Monday afternoon. The father of seven, who was with the police department since 2010, was remembered as a person whose quick response to reports of a gunman attested to his courage.
The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, noted on Wednesday that Talley “ran into” gunfire. On Tuesday Joe Biden called him an American hero.
“He was a man of heart who loved his job,” his father, Homer Talley, told Denver’s Fox affiliate. “Didn’t surprise me he was the first one there,” he told Denver’s NBC affiliate.
Talley’s sister, Kirstin, mourned his death on Twitter. “Officer Eric Talley is my big brother. He died today in the Boulder shooting. My heart is broken. I cannot explain how beautiful he was and what a devastating loss this is to so many. Fly high my sweet brother. You always wanted to be a pilot (damn color blindness). Soar,” she wrote.
Talley joined the police around age 40, but family said he was looking at another job change to get out of “the frontline” when he was killed.
Denny Stong, 20
Stong, the youngest victim, had worked at King Soopers since 2018. He was remembered for his kindness and dreams.
“He was a really smart kid,” Stong’s friend Dean Schiller said to CBS News. “He was trying to be an airline pilot who wanted to be a commercial airline pilot – that was his dream.”
Stong relished building and flying model airplanes. He loved motorcycles and purchased a bike with wages he had saved, according to the Denver Post.
Neven Stanisic, 23
Stanisic was born to Serbian refugees who came to the US from Bosnia in the 1990s. Described as devoutly religious, Stanisic worked for a company that serviced coffee machines.
He had just finished a job at the Starbucks within King Soopers when shots rang out, according to the Denver Post.
“His family fled the war in the former Yugoslavia and everything they had was either left behind or destroyed,” the Rev Radovan Petrovic of St John the Baptist reportedly said. “They … came here to have a new start,” Petrovic said, but Stanisic “ended up being in the parking lot, in his car, when the bullet struck him. The family is wondering, how this can happen here.”
Rikki Olds, 25
Olds, a front-end manager at King Soopers, was described by family as “a strong, independent young woman”. “She was so energetic and charismatic and she was a shining light in this dark world,” her uncle, Bob Olds, told CNN.
Friends and family recalled that Olds had a warm, friendly personality, and was a person who worked hard and loved her job.
Darcey Lopez, who worked at the King Soopers deli, said Olds’ laugh would travel “all the way across the store” and called her a shining star.
Tralona Bartkowiak, 49
Known as “Lonna”, she was recently engaged, was the eldest of four siblings and described as close with her family.
Bartkowiak and her sister launched Umba, a clothing store in Denver, around 2009.
She was “an amazing person, just a beam of light”, her brother, Michael Bartkowiak, told the New York Times.
She was described as the family’s backbone, who loved organic food and her chihuahua, Opal.
Her cousin, David, said she helped raise him. “It’s just really sad that she’s gone … so devastating,” he told the Los Angeles CBS affiliate.
Suzanne Fountain, 59
“She just would light up the room,” Fountain’s longtime friend Helen Forster told CNN. “It’s a terrible loss of an incredible human being.”
She added: “All her life really she was about doing service, helping others. All you had to do is be around her or her give you a hug, and everything was better.”
Fountain worked for a non-profit financial education program. She was also an actor, who had appeared with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), and also loved gardening.
“We are heartbroken by the senseless violence in Boulder yesterday. We were especially saddened to learn of the death of Suzanne Fountain, an actress who appeared with our own DCPA Theatre Company. Our hearts go out to everyone affected by this tragedy,” the company said on Twitter.
Teri Leiker, 51
Leiker had worked at the King Sooper grocery store for more than three decades. She was described by a friend, Lexi Knutson, as the “most selfless, innocent, amazing person I have had the honor of meeting”, NPR reported.
The two talked on the phone regularly.
“Her shy friendship towards me turned into a sort of sisterhood,” Knutson wrote on a now deleted Instagram post.
Leiker and Knutson met through the University of Colorado Boulder’s Best Buddies group, which is aimed at forging “one-on-one friendships between students and members of the community with intellectual and developmental disabilities”, NPR explained. They went to sports games together.
Kevin Mahoney, 61
Mahoney was described by his daughter as her “hero”.
“I am heartbroken to announce that my Dad, my hero, Kevin Mahoney, was killed in the King Soopers shooting in my hometown of Boulder, Colorado. My dad represents all things Love. I’m so thankful he could walk me down the aisle last summer,” Erika Mahoney wrote on Twitter. “I love you forever Dad. You are always with me.”
Erika Mahoney, who is pregnant with a daughter, told NPR’s Morning Edition: “My dad will never be able to hold her … But I know on some level he’ll be there. He was so excited, and I’m going to tell her that he loves her so much.”
Mahoney had previously been in the investments and hotel asset management field, the Denver Post reported.
Lynn Murray, 62
Murray’s husband, John Mackenzie described his wife as “probably the kindest person I’ve ever known”.
“Our lives are ruined, our tomorrows are forever filled with a sorrow that is unimaginable,” he told the New York Times.
Murray was a retired photo editor and, before moving to Colorado, worked for magazines such as Glamour, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan in New York.
She was at King Sooper, working as an Instacart shopper, when the gunman opened fire.
“My mom was the least deserving person to die this way,” her daughter, Olivia Mackenzie, said to the Denver Post. “She was … the warmest, kindest, most positive person.”
Jody Waters, 65
Waters owned fashion boutiques at the Pearl Street shopping mall in downtown Boulder.
Jeff Shapiro, who owned a shop at the mall, told the Denver Post that he and his wife came to know the businesswoman and explained that many shoppers viewed Waters as a friend.
“I know her from a store on the Pearl Street mall where I shop,” the Colorado state representative Judy Amabile said to Post. Waters, she recalled, “was just super energetic and nice and fun”.
She was also described as lighting up any room she was in. Shapiro said that Waters had two daughters.
