Biden condemns Colorado shooting, urges Senate to pass gun reform bills - China.org.cn

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he was "devastated" by the shooting a day earlier at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, that killed 10 people, urging the Senate to immediately pass the bills on gun reform recently approved by the House.

"Ten lives have been lost, and more families have been shattered by gun violence in the state of Colorado," Biden said in remarks from the White House. "And (first lady) Jill and I are devastated, the feeling, I just can't imagine how the families are feeling."

On Monday afternoon, a shooter identified Tuesday as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa opened fire at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people, among them a police officer who was the first to respond to the situation.

The carnage came less than a week after eight people, many of whom were Asian women, were killed in a shooting spree in the Atlanta area in Georgia.