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10 dead in Colorado in seventh mass shooting in as many days

TEN people were killed in Colorado on Monday in the seventh mass shooting in the United States in as many days.  

A man armed with an AR15 assault rifle opened fire on shoppers in a busy supermarket in Boulder.

One of the victims was Eric Talley, the first police officer to respond to the shooting.

A shirtless man with blood dripping down his leg was filmed being escorted away by heavily armed police after the incident.

The Boulder Police Department announced today that it has identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect. The motive is not yet known.

The shooting came just a week after eight people, six of them Asian-Americans, were murdered by a white man in Atlanta, Georgia, last Tuesday.

Five people were injured in a mass shooting in California on Wednesday; four were injured in Oregon on Thursday and 17 were injured and two killed in three separate shootings in Texas and Pennsylvania on Saturday.

Last Monday, a Colorado judge upheld a bid by the National Rifle Association’s affiliate in the state to block Boulder council from enforcing a ban on assault weapons and large magazines.

Left-wing Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar condemned the spate of mass shootings on social media today.  

She said: “Our communities are living in terror and they need more than our ‘thoughts and prayers.’

“No more cowering to the gun lobby. We need to pass gun safety legislation now.”

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