Colorado shooting victims: Shop owner, actress, ‘spitfire’

BOULDER, Colo. — Some were gunned down while picking up groceries, others while putting in a day’s work at a Colorado supermarket. Waters wasn’t shy about letting people know if they made mistakes, but “she knew your potential, even if you didn’t know it.” Boutique owner Jen Haney added, “The world got dimmer without her.” NEVEN STANISIC He had finished a job — fixing a coffee machine at the Starbucks in King Soopers — and was in his car, getting ready to go to another assignment, when the gunman opened fire in the parking lot, said Father Radovan Petrovic, the parish priest at the Stanisic family’s church. TERI LEIKER A longtime King Soopers employee, she was a “spitfire” who felt free to yell “hello” across the store when colleagues came in to work, Giffen said. “In this case, 10 lives were lost, and I think about my daughter and that my dad will never be able to hold her, but I know on some level, he will be there and he was so excited — and I’m going to tell her that he loves her so much.” ERIC TALLEY He joined the police force in Boulder in 2010 with a background that included a master’s degree in computer communications, his father said. “If there was anyone who was potentially going to be able to go in and defuse a bad situation, it was him — because he was such a lovable person,” O’Bryant said.