A high school student charged in a classmate's death during a Colorado school shooting told police that he planned the shooting for a few weeks and intended to target classmates who made fun of his gender identity, police records show.
including murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors have said both are being tried as adults.
McKinney has been charged as an adult, and his attorneys have said they plan to ask a judge to move the case to juvenile court, the Associated Press reported. Neither suspect has entered a plea yet, and their attorneys opposed the unsealing of records associated with the criminal cases. Both suspects allegedly told police that they went to Erickson's home during lunch and broke into a parent’s gun safe with an ax and a crowbar and got three handguns and a rifle as well as ammunition and magazines from the safe.They both took cocaine, although Erickson said he was threatened into doing so, according to the documents. They allegedly put the guns in a guitar case and a backpack and went back to school.
The other suspect claimed he then started shooting his own two handguns and was also tackled by students and a teacher, but got away and grabbed a third handgun from his backpack and fled with the intention of killing himself but couldn’t work the gun's safety, according to the documents.
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