1 student dead, 7 students injured in Colorado school shooting, 2 students in custody
1 student dead, 7 students injured in Colorado school shooting, 2 students in custody
Both suspects attended the school
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP/Gray News) – Two students opened fire at a suburban Denver middle school Tuesday afternoon, killing one student and wounding seven others.
Authorities said the suspects had been taken into custody. One is an adult male and the other is a juvenile.
“We did not have them on any radar,” Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said of the suspects.
Spurlock said the wounded had been taken to area hospitals. Several of them are in critical condition and were taken into surgery. No staff or officers were injured.
The sheriff’s department tweeted Tuesday night that one student, identified as an 18-year-old male, had died.
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“We’re going to do everything we can to investigate this to determine what happened,” Spurlock said.
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At least seven, possibly eight victims were injured in a shooting at STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, authorities said.
Published at: 3:16 PM, Tue May 07 2019
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The shooting began at about 1:53 p.m. at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter school in an affluent suburban Denver community.
School staff alerted police. There is not a school resource officer assigned to the school, but the school is located near a police station and it hires private security.
“Quite a few shots were fired,” Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth said.
Deputies arrived two minutes after the shooting began and heard shots as they arrived, authorities said.
“I have to believe that the quick response of the officers that got inside that school helped save lives," Spurlock said.
At least one handgun was recovered at the school. The sheriff said he was uncertain if there were any other weapons.
Nicholson-Kluth said that many kids self-evacuated. Others were being reunited with parents at a nearby recreation center.
A car believed to belong to one of the suspects was found in the school parking lot.
STEM School Highlands Ranch is a public charter school with more than 1,850 students in kindergarten through 12th grades, with an elementary, middle and high school.
The shooting comes a couple of weeks after the 20th anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine High School, in which teenage gunmen killed 12 classmates and a teacher. The Columbine perpetrators took their own lives during the attack.
Columbine High School is 7 miles away from STEM Academy.
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