Boulder Police used slain officer's handcuffs to formally place shooting suspect into custody
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Boulder Police used the handcuffs belonging to the officer killed in Monday's mass shooting to formally place the shooting suspect into custody, police said in a tweet Thursday.
"This week several Boulder Police officers & others responded to a local hospital to formally place Monday's shooting suspect into custody," police said in the tweet. "As they did, officers informed him the handcuffs used that day were those of Officer Eric Talley. The suspect was then taken to jail." Talley was one of the 10 people killed when police say Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa opened fire in a King Soopers store Monday afternoon.
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