Kamala Harris' controversial niece Meena deletes tweet assuming Boulder gunman was white because he was 'taken into custody alive'
- Meena Harris deleted her tweet on Tuesday after police revealed 21-year-old gunman Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is of Syrian descendant
- Vice President Kamala Harris' niece had assumed the Boulder gunman was white because he was taken into custody alive
- She immediately faced backlash from some on Twitter
- Alissa was born in Syria and moved to the US when he was three
- He now lives in Arvada, Colorado, around 30 miles from the grocery store he targeted