Boulder Grocery Store Shooting: What We Know About The Victims

Those who died ranged in ages from 20 to 65 years old. Among them is a Boulder police officer who responded to the shooting.

Here’s what we know so far about the victims:

Rikki Olds

Olds, 25, was a front-end manager at the King Soopers. Her aunt, Lori Olds, posted on Facebook early Tuesday morning that her “beloved” niece had died.

“Thank you everyone for all your prayers but the Lord got a beautiful young angel yesterday at the hands of a deranged monster,” Olds wrote.

Olds’ boyfriend, Jordan Arthur, posted on Instagram that she died a hero as she tried to lock the front doors.

“I’m deeply saddened to say my girlfriend Rikki Olds was murdered yesterday in the King Soopers shooting,” Arthur wrote. “She died a hero trying to lock the front doors to save everyone else. Without her I would’ve never known what being loved by a partner was like. Thank you baby, I will dearly miss you.”

Teri Leiker

Leiker, 51, was an employee at King Soopers who had worked at the store for more than 30 years, her friend Lexi Knutson told Reuters .

“Teri was the most selfless, innocent, amazing person I have had the honor of meeting,” Knutson wrote in a Facebook post following Leiker’s death. “Our paths crossed in 2017 during a CU Boulder Best Buddies meeting. Her shy friendship towards me turned into a sort of sisterhood.”

Knutson described how the two “took Boulder by storm,” going to local bars and sporting events together. Leiker was a University of Colorado Boulder “super fan,” Knutson wrote.

Leiker had many friends and a boyfriend, Knutson said, adding that the two women chatted on the phone every day, usually early in the morning.

“She always ended the calls with ‘love your buddy, Teri,’” she wrote.

Tralona “Lonna” Bartkowiak

Bartkowiak, 49, who went by “Lonna” on her Facebook page, was “the kindest and sweetest lady you ever did know,” a friend wrote on Facebook. 

“All she wanted to do was help and share beauty with others,” the friend, Edica Pacha, wrote in the post . “I am heartbroken for her family. Love you Lonna..you were such a light.”

Bartkowiak and her sister opened the artisanal clothing store Umba in Boulder in 2009.

“Fueled by their passion for travel, music and art, the two of them began selling clothing at music venues, festivals and local fairs, and Umba came to be,” the store wrote on its Facebook page .

Bartkowiak’s Facebook profile  shows she donated to multiple causes, including a toy drive and a fundraiser to help pay medical bills for a friend’s sick cat.

“He was a generous man who would do anything to help anyone,” Brooks said.

Denny Stong

Stong, 20, had worked at King Soopers since 2018. His interests included dirt bikes and Hayao Miyazaki films, according to his Facebook page .

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the nation last year, Stong posted a photo of himself with a frame surrounding it that read, “I can’t stay home. I am a grocery store worker.”

Stong was the youngest victim.

Kevin Mahoney

Mahoney, 61, was a father of two.

“I am heartbroken to announce that my Dad, my hero, Kevin Mahoney, was killed in the King Soopers shooting in my hometown of Boulder, CO.,” Erika Mahoney posted on Twitter. “My dad represents all things Love. I’m so thankful he could walk me down the aisle last summer.” 

In a followup tweet, Erika Mahoney revealed she is pregnant. 

“I am now pregnant,” she wrote. “I know he wants me to be strong for his granddaughter.”

Jody Waters

Waters, 65, was a mother of two and the grandmother to a toddler. Posts on her Instagram page featured many photos of her daughters and other family, including her dog Miss Charlotte, who Waters described as her “sweet rescue.”

Neven Stanisic  

Stanisic, 23, enjoyed working out and Dragon Ball Z, according to his Facebook page.

His friend Sterling Monroe told Reuters that Stanisic had “a heart of gold.”

“Always there for me in high school,” Monroe told the publication. “Always a good person in and out.”

Suzanne Fountain