A 17-year-old student was found dead in a wooded mountain area outside Denver late Wednesday after authorities say he wounded two administrators in a shooting at his Denver high school where students and parents were already fed up about a rash of recent violence and lack of action by officials.
shooting occurred Wednesday morning at East High School
The shooting, at a time of rising gun violence on school campuses across the U.S., has stoked a backlash against a policy adopted in Denver several years ago of not putting police or armed personnel into schools."It stuns me that we have civilian people... charged with having to search a student or anyone for weapons," said Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers.
"I am sick of it," said Jesse Haase, who planned to talk with her daughter about taking her out of classes for the rest of the school year.
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