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This is breaking news and they haven't finished clearing the school yet. 3 suspects. One down and 2 being sought. Will update.

Pray for our kids. My heart hurts.
The STEM Academy is K-12. Kids of all ages.

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — Authorities believe at least two people were injured in a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.

A ranking law enforcement source told Denver7 that at least one victim was shot and that one suspect was down. Authorities were looking for two other suspects, the source said.
 
Last I read had 7 victims injured, 2 suspects in custody, 1 possible suspect still on the loose.

The Denver area is a rare place where i am more weary of the suburban, socio-economically blessed folks than i am the poorer folks/areas. Dont know what the fuck is up with the scumbags there. I suppose being that close to awesome nature with the rocky mountains right in sight, relative short drive away, but being stuck in this overly crowded, stifling metropolis of the Denver region could drive a fuck bonkers. Seems to be more to it than that though.
 
Police say that two shooters, both male students at the school, are in custody after a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter school in Highlands Ranch, Colo., according to Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock. One of the shooters is an adult and the other is a juvenile, Spurlock said. He said that police have secured the school.

Eight students were injured in a shooting at a K-12 school south of Denver, Colo., on Tuesday.

https://www.google.com/amp/time.com/5585312/school-shooting-colorado-stem/?amp=true
 
One student is dead and 8 others injured.
This shit has to stop. I'm in tears right now.
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — One student is dead, multiple others are injured and two suspects are in custody in the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, according to multiple ranking law enforcement sources.

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said the suspects – a juvenile and an adult – were believed to be students at the school. Spurlock said there were no other suspects in the case, but authorities were still investigating at the scene.

According to a source with knowledge of the investigation, one of the suspects is an 18-year-old senior who was a student at the school. According to a criminal background check, his only prior run-ins with the law include citations for careless driving and driving an unsafe vehicle.

Spurlock said eight students were injured in the shooting and they were all 15 years old and up.

Two of the victims were in serious condition at Littleton Adventist Hospital, officials said, and three had been released from the hospital. One victim was in good condition at Children's Hospital. Two other victims were at Sky Ridge Medical Center and listed as "stable," but their conditions were unclear.

Spurlock said the suspects walked into the building, "got deep inside the school" and shot at students at two separate locations. The shooting was reported shortly before 2 p.m., and deputies arrived about two minutes later and engaged the suspects, taking them into custody, Spurlock said.

"I believe the quick response of officers helped save lives," Spurlock said. "A quick response eliminates a lot of this issue right off the bat."

Authorities found a suspect's vehicle in the parking lot at the school, and they were working to obtain a search warrant for the vehicle.

The STEM school, which has about 1,800 students from kindergarten through high school, is located off South Ridgeline Road and Plaza Drive in Highlands Ranch.

The school did not have a School Resource Officer assigned to the building, but it did have private security, Spurlock said.
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Two individuals walked into the STEM school, located at at South Ridgeline Boulevard and Plaza Drive, and engaged students in two separate locations, Spurlock said.

One of those individuals has been identified as 18-year-old Devon Erickson, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
 
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Multiple sources close to the investigation told Denver7 late Tuesday night that the second suspect, who is a minor, is a transgender male who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male.

The sources said that the motive of the alleged shooters went beyond bullying and involved revenge and anger towards others at the school and that at least one of the suspects was involved in legal and illegal drug use and had been in therapy
 
Dont know why bullying came up at all. This shit is NEVER about bullying, ever.

Hopefully Colorado doesnt continue its hippy pussy ways and actually punishes these two, should be LWOP for both.

Sucks the tax payers will have to pay for their sex changes though.

The tranny has got to be amongst his facebook friends you would think. Anybody got some time and a discerning eye, see if you can find em. Surely other students at the school have named names in their social media, kinda annoying the media sucks too bad to have cracked it and put a name to the juvenile stain.
 
"Alec" McKinney better be charged as an adult. They planned and executed this travesty to slaughter their fellow students, they are not children. I don't give a shit this is a trans person or technically, a girl. They need to be held accountable.
 
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STEM students walk out of vigil when it turns into gun control and political debate.

GOD BLESS THESE KIDS


HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. -- Students at STEM School Highlands Ranch walked out of a candlelight vigil to honor the victims of Tuesday's shooting after they said the event turned political.

A sea of students held up candles inside the gym at Highlands Ranch High School.

But after Sen. Michael Bennet and Congressman Jason Crow spoke, several students shouted "mental health" and stormed out of the event.

Students complained they wanted to talk about their classmates and not hear about gun control and politics.

On Tuesday, two students are alleged to have gone into the K-12 charter school and opened fire, killing 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo and wounding eight others.

STEM students said they didn't want to be used as a prop or a pawn after the situation turned political.

"It was really sad," parent Lisa Lopez said. "All those kids wanted was to be heard as part of the grieving process and I think they had that right. I don't think it should have been turned into something political about gun control.

"It should have been about something to remember their friend and classmate and schoolmate and let them get a chance to grieve.

"It just turned straight into gun control. We need to do this and we're not doing this and I'm in Washington fighting for this and like, that's not what this is about."
 
Scumbag politicians only giving a shit when they think it benefits them. Sickening.

Not sure why the kids were yelling mental health though. Are they saying THEy want counseling for what they experienced? Sure hope those dumbfucks arent scapegoating the murderers by baselessly claiming they were nutters. Fools.


Wow so they were both transitioning into the opposite gender. What are the odds.
 
Not sure why the kids were yelling mental health though. Are they saying THEy want counseling for what they experienced? Sure hope those dumbfucks arent scapegoating the murderers by baselessly claiming they were nutters. Fools.

I am guessing they were saying that one or both of the perps were struggling with mental health issues, and that focusing solely on gun control as the solution is ignoring half the problem?
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Wow so they were both transitioning into the opposite gender. What are the odds.

The male having brightly colored dyed hair does not make him gay or trans. It is not that uncommon (at least around here) for male teens to dye their hair weird colors. The son of one of my friends seemed to have different color hair every few months in high school. Now he is about to graduate from college with honors and has normal color hair. He is not, and never was, trans. My godson (now 16) also dyed his blonde hair bright blue for awhile a year or so back. He's not trans either. It's just a style thing.
 
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focusing solely on gun control as the solution is ignoring half the problem
The event was organized by a Brady gun control group and said in a statement it "is deeply sorry any part of this vigil did not provide the support, caring and sense of community we sought to foster and facilitate."

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Given that gun control is the focus of the group that sponsored the vigil, it is really not a surprise that two anti-gun congress critters spoke of the need for more gun control. They thought they had a captive audience.

As far as the Brady bunch that issued that statement? Take what they said with a grain of salt

--Al
 
I am guessing they were saying that one or both of the perps were struggling with mental health issues, and that focusing solely on gun control as the solution is ignoring half the problem?
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The male having brightly colored dyed hair does not make him gay or trans. It is not that uncommon (at least around here) for male teens to dye their hair weird colors. The son of one of my friends seemed to have different color hair every few months in high school. Now he is about to graduate from college with honors and has normal color hair. He is not, and never was, trans. My godson (now 16) also dyed his blonde hair bright blue for awhile a year or so back. He's not trans either. It's just a style thing.

He looks like a girl even outside of the hair. I would be shocked if he wasnt transitioning as well.

Both these creeps are some straight up Buffalo Bill, Silence of the Lambs shit for sure

And that is shockingly profoundly ignorant for those idiot kids to so quickly and baselessly chock this all up to the kids not getting mental health treatment. Even if they were in need of some sort of intervention, that falls on their parents given their age, not society at large. These are wealthy, suburban coloradans, they have access to mental health care for their children.
 
It’s obviously a mental health problem caused by an increasingly disgusting, immoral, depraved, society lacking any kind of integrity. Not a gun problem. There were no school shootings in the 50’s and 60’s and kids were allowed to bring their guns to school back then. Combine that with psychotropic drugs and/or hormone drugs given to kids to prevent the natural development of puberty and what does anyone expect to happen? Instead of treating the dysphoria and dysmorphia, depression, anxiety etc with the help of a psychiatrist (one that doesn’t just hand out drugs to kids) they encourage it and make it seem cool or fashionable. It’s become a damn contest to see who can have the most neuroses.

No teenager is comfortable in their own skin. To act like these 2 little fuckers are any different or deserve more pity because of one being gay and one being trans is utterly stupid. We all had those days, and still do, where we look in the mirror and see nothing but the flaws, where someone else would look at us and just see the beauty. We still didn’t shoot our fucking classmates.
 
In Tennessee in the 70's, my husband took his rifle to school to explain how to break it down and clean it. He carried it around all day, since he didn't have a car to leave it in until it was time for that class. No one said or did anything about it, it was just expected that it was unloaded and he wouldn't shoot anybody. He was also a kid who wore mostly black and was from a military family, so he was exposed to guns morning, noon and night. It's not the guns, it's the condition of society these days.
 
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — Both suspects in the May 7 shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch are expected to face 48 charges, including first-degree murder and attempted murder, according to court records.

Devon Erickson, 18, and Maya McKinney, 16, were both scheduled to appear in court Wednesday at 10 a.m. for their formal charges hearing. They were students at the school.

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The only difference between the two suspects' charges are related to a firearm. Erickson is charged with providing a handgun to a juvenile and McKinney is charged with possession of a handgun by a juvenile.


Multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation, who are not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation, say the mother of 18-year-old alleged shooter Devon Erickson suffered significant mental health challenges just days before her son allegedly brought guns, stolen from his house, to STEM School Highlands Ranch.

Investigators are also looking into postings on Twitter that appear to have been made by the 16-year-old suspect, who identifies as a male but was born a female. The tweets say the teen missed his father – who has been deported three times.

 
A high school student charged in a classmate's death during a Colorado school shooting told police that he planned the attack for weeks and intended to target classmates who repeatedly mocked his gender identity. Written summaries of police interviews with the two suspected shooters portray 16-year-old Alec McKinney as the leader of the attack, enlisting 18-year-old Devon Erickson in the plan to kill the students who bullied McKinney, who identifies as male.

Both teenagers told police that they broke into a gun safe at one of the teenager's homes before walking into the STEM School Highlands Ranch on the afternoon of May 7 with a guitar case and a backpack concealing four guns.

McKinney "said he wanted the kids at the school to experience bad things, have to suffer from trauma like he had had to in his life," the document said. "He wanted everyone in that school to suffer and realize that the world is a bad place."

Both teenagers are charged with murder and attempted murder in the shooting.

Prosecutors charged McKinney as an adult; his attorneys have said they plan to ask a judge to move the case back to juvenile court. Neither has entered a plea yet, and their attorneys opposed the unsealing of records associated with the criminal cases.

The document also revealed that a hired school security guard responding to the gunfire accidentally shot a female student. According to the record, several officers reported that the guard fired twice at a Douglas County Sheriff's lieutenant.

The guard said he saw "a muzzle" come around a corner. The record said one of the guard's shots wounded a female student inside a classroom.

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The document released Thursday provides the clearest timeline of the attack.

During a police interview, Erickson told police that McKinney sent him a Snapchat message on the night of May 6 telling him not to go to school the next day because McKinney wanted to get revenge "on a lot of people." McKinney identifies as male and told police that classmates called him "disgusting," made fun of him and repeatedly referred to him "as a she."

On May 7, they left school and went to Erickson's house during lunch. McKinney told police he threatened Erickson with an ax to get him to help open a gun safe using the ax and a crowbar.

They told police they found four weapons inside - three handguns and a rifle. After loading the guns, they put the weapons inside a guitar case and a backpack. Erickson said they both used cocaine while at the house.

They drove back to the school and walked through the middle school entrance where McKinney "knew they would not be checked," according to the report.

They targeted classroom 107 and Erickson told police he entered alone first, dropping off the guitar case. Erickson said he left the room briefly and intended to tell an adult but found McKinney waiting for him.

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Their accounts of what happened inside the room differ.

Erickson said he saw McKinney reach for a gun then decided to shout for everyone to get down. Erickson said he saw two students rush toward him and said their impact "prompted the gun to go off."

"While he was on the ground, he heard more gunshots and yelling and screaming," the record said. "Devon described being in shock and stated he didn't want anyone to get shot."

McKinney told police they entered the room simultaneously, yelling "nobody move," and he fired after hearing Erickson shoot.

McKinney "said he shot the revolver until it was empty and then shot the Glock until it was empty" before being tackled by students and a teacher. McKinney said he escaped and ran, intending to kill himself with the remaining weapon but surrendered to an armed security guard in the hallway.

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Erickson portrayed McKinney as a mastermind and told police repeatedly that that he wanted to stop his friend. Police wrote in the document that Erickson "couldn't articulate how or why he never told an adult."

McKinney suggested that Erickson became an active participant by loading the guns, locking the door of the classroom they targeted and firing the first shot, according to the record.

Prosecutors filed the same charges against both teenagers.

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DENVER (Reuters) - A transgender teenager who told police that he and a friend opened fire at a suburban Denver high school to exact revenge on classmates who bullied him should be tried on murder charges as an adult, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
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Defense attorneys sought to have the case moved to juvenile court, citing McKinney’s mental health issues and a troubled childhood that included witnessing domestic violence committed by his father against his mother.
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In issuing a seven-page ruling on Wednesday, Douglas County District Judge Jeffrey Holmes acknowledged that the defendant had suffered “serious trauma,” but declined to move the case.

“Based on the totality of the evidence before it, the Court finds that it is has not been proved that the juvenile and the community would be better served by transferring this case to juvenile court,” Holmes wrote.

If convicted of the murder charge at trial, McKinney faces up to 40 years in prison. Had the case been sent to juvenile court, the maximum sentence was seven years.
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