Boulder ‘shooter’ Ahmad Alissa yelled ‘I surrender! I’m naked!’ after ‘killing 10’ as tales of heroism emerge

THE suspected Boulder shooter yelled "I surrender! I'm naked" after allegedly killing 10 people.

, 21, has been charged after  with an AR-15-style rifle, leaving 10 people including police officer , dead.

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Just days after the deadly attack, King Soopers employee Maggie Montoya, 25, recalled how Alissa gave himself up to the cops just steps away from where she was hiding for her life.

"I just heard our store manager yell, ‘Active shooter,’ and we all scattered," Montoya told .

While hiding in a small room attached to the store's pharmacy, Montoya listened for 30 minutes to sporadic bursts of gunfire.

At roughly 3pm, she heard police speaking over the loudspeaker, reportedly telling the assailant: "This is the Boulder Police Department. The entire building is surrounded. I need you to surrender now."

WHAT WE KNOW:

• Ten people died in a gun massacre at a supermarket in Boulder.
• Witnesses said a man in tactical body armor shot victims one by one with a rifle.
• A bearded suspect wearing only his underwear and covered in blood was led away in handcuffs.
• The injured suspect was taken to hospital for treatment.
• Boulder police officer , 51, was killed as he responded to reports of an active shooter.
• Rikki Olds, 25, was named among the dead by her family.

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Alissa then reportedly shouted back that he was surrendering.

"I surrender! I’m naked!," Montoya claimed that Alissa shouted.

Roughly 20 minutes later, after cops asked the shooter to once again surrender, Montoya said that authorities entered the store and directed the gunman to keep his hands above his head.

Tales of heroism emerged following the tragic incident, including one of a fast-acting Starbucks barista who protected his 69-year-old coworker.

Logan Smith recalled the incident to , saying: "I knew since she is my elder, as she is older than me, I must protect her over myself and so instinctively I pushed her into a corner, covered her with trash cans and then tried to find a place for myself."

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However, 6 foot 5 Smith said it wasn't as easy to hide himself, saying: "My last resort was a trash can that my head was visible outside of so I wasn’t in the safest situation."

Smith added that Alissa did not speak until the police arrived, adding "they shouted at him, gunshots were fired. It was just silence and the store music."

He described the deadly ordeal, which saw him lose three co-workers, as the "longest 20 minutes of my life." However, he does not claim he is a hero for his actions.

"As a grocery store employee, we signed the paper when we got the job — the customers are first and I’ll put my life underneath their lives," said Smith, a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

"If anyone was going to die, it was me before my customers, before my co-workers."

"I don’t consider myself a hero. I believe our police department, I believe the officer that was shot at the entrance, he is the biggest hero of it all."

The alleged shooter bought an assault rifle six days before opening fire inside a crowded Colorado supermarket, according to an arrest affidavit released on Tuesday.

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Witnesses described the gunman shooting victims one-by-one with a rifle in the graphic massacre.

Video showed police escorting a man – the alleged gunman – in handcuffs away from the scene, dressed in nothing but shorts and covered in blood.

Initial reports said that at least six were killed in the shooting, but the death toll was later revealed to be ten.

Denny Strong, 20, Neven Stoanisic, 23, Rikki Olds, 25, Tralona Bartkowiak, 49, Suzanne Fountain, 59, Teri Leiker, 51, Officer Eric Talley, 51, Kevin Mahoney, 61, Lynn Murray, 62, Jody Waters, 65 were the 10 victims.

Officer Talley, 51, was one of the first to arrive on the scene – and was shot dead as he raced inside to tackle the gunman.

The suspect's brother told the Beast that the alleged gunman's house was searched by authorities following the shooting.

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According to a Facebook page, that appeared to be Ahmad's, he was "born in Syria 1999" before he "came to the USA in 2002."

The 21-year-old would post regularly on Facebook, including sharing the hashtag "NeedAGirlfriend" and sharing memes about video games.

He also made a claim that "racist Islamophobic people" were "hacking my phone" and stopping him from having a "normal life."

Ahmad also shared a video that's caption claimed it showed a "corrections officer turn off his body cam before repeatedly punching an inmate with a mental health condition," which he caption: "This is not okay."

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"Jeffco Public Schools and the Board of Education are saddened by the tragic event that took place in Boulder," the school said.

"We share the heartbreak of the families, coworkers, and friends of the victims and of the Colorado community that again faces another senseless act of violence."