Colorado STEM school shooting: Juvenile suspect identified as female and everything else we know.
, killing one student and wounding eight others, is a female, officials clarified Wednesday after first saying the suspect was a juvenile male.
The victim, who died at the scene, would have finished his high school career on Friday along with the school's other seniors, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.The father of Kendrick Castillo told NBC News that his son was the student killed. Erickson had recently posted a senior photo on his Facebook page, where he listed Pokémon and"The Walking Dead" as interests, along with several pop bands. He had also posted pictures of him acting in"Legally Blonde the Musical" and"Les Misérables" at a local community theater.
When asked if she had any idea what would lead her son to carry out a school shooting, she said through tears:"I don’t, no.”The shooters, armed with handguns, entered the K-12 school Tuesday afternoon through the middle school, which has no metal detectors and one contracted armed security officer, Spurlock said.Officers arrived within two minutes and heard gunfire when they entered the school, but they never exchanged gunfire with the suspects, Spurlock said.
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