Kendrick Castillo was about to graduate from high school. Then a classmate began shooting. Castillo lunged at the man who opened fire and was shot.
By Susan Svrluga and Susan Svrluga Reporter covering higher education for the Grade Point blog Email Bio Follow Moriah Balingit Moriah Balingit Reporter covering national education issues Email Bio Follow May 8 at 2:25 PM He was a high school senior, set to graduate this week.
The charter school campus has more than 1,800 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, including small children who streamed out of the school weeping and with their arms raised to escape the danger. Our Nation grieves at the unspeakable violence that took a precious young life and badly injured others in Colorado. God be with the families and thank you to the First Responders for bravely intervening. We are in close contact with Law Enforcement.
Now is the time to mourn and to weep, he said, but the people of Colorado are resilient. “My kids are going to go to school today,” he said, acknowledging the conversations anxious parents are having. “I recommend everyone else send their kids, too.”Within two minutes, the first deputy arrived and confronted a gunman, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said. Deputies struggled with the suspects before taking them into custody, he said.
About 600 students were in the section of the school where the attack unfolded. Authorities are still in the early stages of interviewing witnesses and learning what happened, the sheriff said. “We are going to hear about very heroic things that happened at that school.” The Denver region has been on edge as the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre was memorialized, and deadly threats were called in to other Denver-area schools. The Columbine attack, in which two teenagers killed 13 people, marked the beginning of a new era in the United States — a time when the threat of school shootings has taught a generation of children how to flee, hide and even fight back when faced with a gunman.
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