Tag: school shooting
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JeffCo SWAT member resigns after drinking before Evergreen High School shooting response
A Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team leader resigned after admitting to being intoxicated during the Evergreen High School shooting in September. Sgt. Anthony Hamilton resigned from the department on Thursday after he admitted that he drank “the better part of a 12 pack” of beer starting around 6:30 a.m. Sept. 10, the day a…
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Appeals court rules civil trial over Kendrick Castillo’s death not required if STEM School pays max damages
Colorado’s second-highest court determined on Thursday that a civil trial over the 2019 shooting death of Kendrick Castillo is not required after the defendant agreed to pay the maximum damages available to Castillo’s parents, without admitting liability. John and Maria Castillo, the parents of Kendrick, sued STEM School Highlands Ranch in 2021, two years after…
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Second Evergreen High School shooting victim released from hospital
Both of the victims of the Sept. 10 shooting at Evergreen High School have been released from the hospital — a little over five weeks since the tragedy struck the community. Matthew Silverstone, 18, was released from St. Anthony Hospital Monday. Around 140 first responders and hospital staff gathered outside the hospital’s emergency entrance, holding…
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Gun control won’t stop school shootings | Mike Rosen
How many times have you heard this anguished and furious cry: “We must ensure that something like this will never happen again!” The “something like this” would apply to horrific events like the 9/11 attack on America by Islamist terrorists, the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and…
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Evergreen High School victim confronted shooter, then warned others, family says
When the Evergreen High School shooter began firing and reloading a revolver, one of the two victims he critically wounded confronted the suspect, according to the victim’s family. That bought time for others to escape, the family said, adding even after he was critically wounded, he ran to warn others. “On Sept. 10, inside Evergreen…
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Evergreen High School victim confronted shooter, then warned others, family says
When the Evergreen High School shooter began firing and reloading a revolver, one of the two victims he critically wounded confronted the suspect, according to the victim’s family. That bought time for others to escape, the family said, adding even after he was critically wounded, he ran to warn others. “On Sept. 10, inside Evergreen…
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Evergreen High School students return to school uplifted by community
Evergreen High School students returned to campus on Thursday morning, two weeks after a shooting shocked the small town. Parents stood on the sideline, holding signs of support. More than 100 posters from Colorado cities, spanning from Telluride to Steamboat Springs, lined the school’s halls, sharing condolences and words of encouragement. “It was difficult, for…
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Colorado Springs elementary school lockdown triggered by ‘hoax’ report of armed man, CSPD says
Colorado Springs police are saying that a scary report of a man with a rifle near an area school Tuesday appears to be a hoax. Colorado Springs police received reports around 11 a.m. of a man with a rifle outside of Ridgeview Elementary School making threats. However, after responding and investigating, police say this incident…
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Suspect in UCCS campus deaths in court Friday morning
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The suspect in the shooting death of two people in a University of Colorado Colorado Springs dorm room has a court appearance Friday, scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. Nicholas Jordan appeared in 4th Judicial Court on Tuesday, when his bail was increased from $1…
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Suspect in UCCS campus deaths in court Friday morning
The suspect in the shooting death of two people in a University of Colorado Colorado Springs dorm room has a court appearance Friday, scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. Nicholas Jordan appeared in 4th Judicial Court on Tuesday, when his bail was increased from $1 million to $5 million cash-only. Jordan, 25, was arrested Monday…