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School shooter Devon Erickson is scheduled to return to court Friday when charges are formally filed.
Erickson, 18, did not enter a plea during his court appearance Wednesday, and a bond was not discussed as formal charges have not been filed.
Erickson is being held on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder after deliberation and 29 counts of attempted first-degree murder after deliberation.
Erickson will remain in custody until his court appearance Friday.
Devon Erickson, who police said is one of two suspects in the STEM School shooting, appeared in court Wednesday and kept his head lowered for much of the hearing.
The court appearance is ongoing, but prosecutors argued for more time before filing charges to allow the investigation to continue. Prosecutors said they expect to file charges on Monday.
Erickson, who spoke only when spoken to directly by the judge, was ordered to not contact any victims of the shooting. He was also told he must not posses firearms or any other weapons.
The Douglas County Judicial Department has not confirmed whether the other suspect, a female juvenile, will have a court appearance.
The father of a student who was killed Tuesday when he rushed a shooter at STEM School Highlands Ranch said his son saved others because he was selfless.
John told CNN shortly after the shooting, he and his wife Maria were frantically tying to reach Kendrick on his cell phone, and they were getting more concerned when he wasn’t responding.
“I was a little bit guilty, because as I was trying to call him I thought well maybe this is the wrong thing? Maybe I am putting his life in jeopardy by having the phone ring,” John said. “My anxiety and the lump in my chest was growing.”
At the reunification center, John said buses were coming in with children and they were watching the parents reunite with their kids “and we didn’t have that.”
John, who is the robotics coach for the school’s team which his son was on, said students kept coming up to them and saying Kendrick saved lives.
“One of the kids told me ‘like a flash, he jumped up.’ She said, ‘You know he’s a hero he saved me, he jumped up and he ran. You couldn’t even see how fast he was running, out the door and after this person to tackle him,’” John said.
His parents were not surprised to hear their son ran into a dangerous situation. “We raised him to be good,” John said.
“Because of what he did, others are alive, and I thank God for that. I love him. And he is a hero and always will be. But there’s another part of you that wishes he just turned and ran, retreated, hid. Did something to put himself our of harms way, if that was possible. But we know Kendrick,” John said. “It’s no surprise that if danger was facing him he would approach it and take it on.”
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Brendan Bialy, a student and current poolee in the Marine Corps Delayed Entry Program, assisted in subduing one of the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooters, the United States Marine Corps confirmed in a statement Wednesday.
Bialy is scheduled to ship to recruit training this summer, according to the statement.
President Trump just tweeted about Tuesday’s deadly shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado and thanked for first responders for “bravely intervening.”
“Our Nation grieves at the unspeakable violence that took a precious young life and badly injured others in Colorado,” he tweeted.
The parents of 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo confirm that the high school senior was the student killed in Tuesday’s shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch.
He died a hero: A witness in the classroom tells CNN that Castillo was shot while rushing a shooter and credited Castillo with saving several lives.
The armed private security guard hired to work at the STEM School was the first to confront one of the shooting suspects, according to Grant Whitus, COO of Boss High Level Protection, the company contracted to protect the school. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Tony Spurlock said the school does not have a school resource officer.
The security officer, is a former Marine now in his late 20’s or early 30’s Whitus said. He also worked as a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy for about three years, before transiting to the private sector.
Whitus said he spoke to the security officer last night about his well being, but not directly about the case, “he’s very anxious, he feels it was his responsibility to stop the whole thing and he couldn’t do it, but you have a school a half a city block long.”
The officer was not injured.
Whitus said there was an alert on the intercom that security was needed in a certain area, and the officer ran right there and confronted one of the shooters as they were coming out of a room. The suspect had a gun in their hand when the security guard approached them. The officer drew his weapon and took the suspect into custody, and turned them over to deputies, Whitus said.
Whitus described his officer as “instrumental” in stopping the shooting, and said if he wasn’t there, “countless lives would have been lost.”
Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said this morning that the STEM school does not have a resource officer, but it had hired an armed private security guard.
This armed private security officer was on campus at the time of the shooting, but he described the layout of the school as “extensive.”
Spurlock said the two suspects entered through the northeast side of the campus, entering through the middle school. There are no metal detectors, he added.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis said Wednesday morning that “we are a resilient state,” noting numerous tragedies which have hit the area over the last 20 years, including Columbine shooting and the Aurora theater shooting.
District Attorney George Brauchler added that his area has been hit with tragedy before.
“This does not define us, it won’t today, and it won’t tomorrow. These are abhorrent acts. Problem is when you get 3, 4 or 5 of them within a 20-mile radius you begin to think they are less abhorrent. But I’m here to tell you, this is not who we are,” Brauchler said.
There is an 18-year old male suspect in custody as well as a juvenile female suspect, according to Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock. On Tuesday, the Sheriff said they had a juvenile male in custody, but Spurlock corrected their gender during a press conference this morning.
The first appearance for the adult male is this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. ET Spurlock said.
Police thought they had two male shooters at first: The female juvenile suspect was believed to be a male at the time they were taken into custody, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said. It wasn’t until the suspect was brought to the office that they were able to determine the suspect is a female. Spurlock said this is a small, young person and “the identity was not obvious to us.”
Spurlock said it’s too early to determine a motive for the shooting.
The Sheriff confirmed two handguns were used in the shooting. No officers exchanged gunfire with the suspects, Spurlock added.
The ATF is working to determine where the two suspects obtained the guns used in the shooting.
Meanwhile, there are three students still in intensive care at hospitals, Spurlock said.
Douglas County will not release the name of the deceased student until the coroner confirms. They intend to release the name later this afternoon, Spurlock said.
About the school: Tuesday’s shooting happened just before 2pMT/5pET in the high school. The school is a ‘free, public charter school’ with 1,850 students in grades K-12, according to their website. The school will be closed for the remainder of the week, according to the Douglas County School District Superintendent.
One day after gunshots rang out at another Denver-area school, authorities are still sorting through what’s known and what’s not about the shooting, the gunmen and their motives.
We’ll be following today’s developments.
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An investigation is underway into a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch that left eight students injured.
Here’s what we know about the shooting so far:
The White House just released a statement on the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, calling it a “hateful and horrible” act of violence.
The White House went on to say that President Trump is monitoring the situation.
Here’s the full statement:
One thing to note: Though the shooting occurred a short distance from Columbine High – only about seven miles away – the STEM School is in Highlands Ranch, not in Littleton, Colorado, as the White House indicated in its statement.
Two male suspects who were taken into custody in connection with today’s shooting were students at STEM School Highlands Ranch, according to Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock.
When officers arrived at the school, they engaged the suspects and struggled with them to take them into custody, he said.
Spurlock said he believes the suspects used a handgun, based on information they received during an interview.
STEM School Highlands Ranch is about seven miles from Columbine High School, which marked the 20th anniversary this year of the deadly shooting on its campus.
Columbine was the target of another would-be shooter earlier this month who was obsessed with the massacre.
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At least eight students were hospitalized, several of them in critical condition, according to Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock.
Two suspects — one adult and one juvenile — are in custody, he told reporters. A vehicle connected to the suspects was found in the parking lot. Authorities are working on obtaining warrants to search the suspects’ home and vehicle.
Authorities are also trying to identify the 1,800 children who go to STEM School Highlands Ranch and connect them with their parents, Spurlock said.
Law enforcement is trying to identify all 1,800 students from STEM School Highlands Ranch and reunite them with their families, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.
Parents are waiting at Northridge Recreation Center to be reunited with their children.
At least seven people were injured today in a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, authorities said.
Here’s what we know about the shooting so far:
