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Uncle of 25-Year-Old Victim of Boulder, Colorado Shooting Mourns Niece's Loss
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1:44Now PlayingThe uncle of one of the victims in the deadly Boulder, Colorado shooting remembered his niece as "the light of our family."
"She didn't get to experience a lot of the stuff that we get to experience in life. And I'm saddened for her and I'm saddened for all the rest of the victims," Robert Olds said Wednesday during a media briefing.
Rikki Olds, 25, was one of 10 people killed in the Boulder supermarket mass shooting this week.
Police have identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect who opened fire on Monday. The suspect purchased the assault weapon used in the shooting just six days before, on March 16, according to the arrest affidavit released Tuesday.
Grocery worker Rikki Olds was slain inside the King Soopers market. Uncle, Robert Olds, and a co-worker, Carlee Lough, told reporters Rikki was an ebullient soul who wanted to be a nurse, but that her backup plan was to work her way up to store manager.
The other dead have been identified as Denny Stong, 20; Neven Stanisic, 23; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Teri Leiker, 51; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Lynn Murray, 62; and Jodi Waters, 65, and police officer Eric Talley, 51.
Monday’s attack was the seventh mass killing this year in the U.S., following the March 16 shooting that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area massage businesses, according to a database compiled by the AP, USA Today and Northeastern University.
It follows a lull in mass killings during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, which had the smallest number of such attacks in eight years, according to the database, which tracks mass killings defined as four or more dead, not including the shooter.
The Boulder and Atlanta-area shootings prompted President Joe Biden to call on Congress to tighten the nation’s gun laws. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to bring forward two House-passed bills to require expanded background checks for gun buyers. Biden supports the measures, but they face a tougher route to passage in a closely divided Senate with a slim Democratic majority.
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