‘It Was My Responsibility to Protect Her Life’: Barista Hid Elderly Co-worker During Mass Shooting

A makeshift fence stands around the parking lot outside a King Soopers grocery store where a mass shooting took place a day earlier in Boulder, Colo., on March 23, 2021. David Zalubowski/AP Photo

A barista at the King Soopers where 10 people were fatally shot on Monday said he protected an elderly co-worker by shoving her into a corner and shielding her from view with trash cans.

Logan Smith, 20, works at the grocery store in Boulder where a gunman law enforcement identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa entered in the early afternoon and opened fire.