BOULDER, Colo — Day 10 of the Boulder mass shooting trial began with a photo of Ahmad Alissa smiling with two friends at Red Rocks Amphitheater in 2017.
The photo, showing a clean-faced Alissa during high school, came a few years before he started showing the changes that his family and the defense team sought to outline to the jury over the last few days.
“Withdrawing, cutting out friends, not talking as much. Those were the first things that came,” Mahmoud Alissa, the younger brother of the suspect, said of Alissa during his senior year of high school.
When he would speak, he would only talk a little, but it got worse as it continued, the brother said, adding it got to the point where he was incapable of making a sentence.