Disaster Shooting At STEM School Highlands Ranch (Colorado) - Two Shooters - One Dead, Eight Injured

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https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/...m-school-closed-week-more-updates/1138817001/

One 18-year-old male was killed and eight students were hurt in a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch and police say “two shooters” were caught by officers running into the building. Both suspects are students at the school.

The school is located approximately 8 miles from Columbine High School in neighboring Jefferson County.

Denver7 reported that investigators believe at least one of the suspects stole the guns from the parents of the 18-year-old suspect,

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock confirmed that at least two handguns were used in the shooting.

High-ranking sources told Denver7 Tuesday night that three handguns and a rifle were recovered but said the rifle was not used in the shooting



HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. – One student is dead and eight others injured after two of their classmates opened fire at a suburban Denver STEM school on Tuesday.

Superintendent Thomas S. Tucker said in a letter to parents that STEM School Highlands Ranch, a public charter school with more than 1,850 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, will be closed for the remainder of the week.

"This is a terrible event," Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said. "This is something that nobody wants to happen in their community."

Kendrick Castillo, 18, was identified Wednesday as the lone fatality, the sheriff said.

One suspect is a "female juvenile," police said after originally identifying the teen as male. The other was identified by police as Devon Erickson, 18.

Victim named as Kendrick Castillo
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Kendrick Castillo, hero killed in Colo. school shooting, told his dad he would act if confronted with a gunman

Shooter 1 - Devon Erickson

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Shooter 2 - Alec McKinney was in the midst of transitioning from female to male.(Born Maya McKinney)
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Yet another event added to the list of "It concerns me that I don't give a shit about this".
 
rocknrollmartian dijo:
I'm not making fun of you, but it's more than a little melodramatic and unhealthy to believe that your kids are at grave risk of being murdered every day that they go to school.
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It’s not that as a parent you think that. You know it’s rare. It’s that when you see footage of crying terrified kids some random bit of your brain has some kind of response as though it’s your kids. I never had this before I was a parent. It’s an emotional response and it isn’t logical, but i guess it serves a purpose - anxiety is rooted in keeping offspring safe, and if humans didn’t have that, we’d be screwed as a species. As I say, illogical, but many human responses are.

In almost every one of these shooter cases it turns out to be a combination of mental health issues, several failures to act by authorities/schools, poor home life, and access to weapons.
Banning guns is a non starter in America, it isn’t going to happen. I agree with the posters up thread who talk about poor mental health provision. These kids are reported to have stolen the guns and it looks like there are mental health issues involved. The conversation that needs to happen is what do we do with troubled kids and why are mental health conditions so much more prevalent in the last ten years?

Were these two lovers? And he’s getting flack for being gay even though she’s a girl? I mean if it wasn’t ending up in them killing some innocent kid then it’d be laughable. We are coddling our children to the point they can’t cope with any adversity at all. Creating an intense need for validation via social media which spills into real life with things like affirmative gender treatment. That girl should have been told she can dress as whatever she wants but she can’t change sex. Not pumped full of hormones (and blockers?) and asspats.

Either that or my theory b which is that dangerhair dye contains psychoactive substances :lol:
 
Whatthefuck dijo:
Homeschooling is a shit alternative. Have you been to the Kailyn Wilcher thread? I shouldn’t have to take that path and even if I wanted to it’s not economically feasible for most people. As I said I don’t believe in coddling, but worrying about your children kind of comes with the territory. I just want a rational conversation. I don’t give a shit what race, sex, orientation, whatever they are, but it’s still a gaddamed mess. Y’all are hung up on the race and sex thing. I don’t care. A couple of assholes tried to kill a bunch of kids. Thank goodness they were so re.tarded they only killed one and that kid is a fucking hero. As a parent when this shit happens you always picture your kid in that position. Maybe you can’t understand that now, but you will at some point.
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Welcome to life, where even medicine has side effects. There is no such thing as a perfect solution, there's just managing the trade offs you want to pay.
 
Medicated dijo:
Nobody told me when I was a kid I deserved a Trophy for participating, if I was told today I deserved a trophy I would tell them to fuck off, I didn't deserve anything for doing shit, I was the loser. If you try to spare people feelings all the time, when shit gets bad for them and they are already mentally ill, this is what happens.
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I think there's a lot of this to it. Kids today are being raised to believe their every feeling is the center of the universe and that everyone else owes them satisfaction. Shooting people who make you mad is probably easier to justify to yourself when adults and the media refuse to challenge your belief that all the world is the stage of your story and everyone else is an NPC who is supposed to follow your script.

Whatthefuck dijo:
I get you, I really do, but understand that just because I'm a godless liberal doesn't mean that I don't want everyone to be responsible for their actions or reactions.
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Well we have that in common.

Whatthefuck dijo:
I'm on here FFS, we don't give a fuck about much of anything. I have my own opinions about indigenous, immigrant, and POC populations, but it doesn't affect my opinion that in reality hurting someone = bad. IDGAF who you are, but I want to find out why it seems to be escalating.

It could very well be that I'm just an old lady who wants the kids off of her lawn, but it seems to be spiraling and I want to understand why so we can fix it. Maybe we'll never really fix it, violence is kind of hard wired into us. Another poster commented that it's the culture we've created where we're just coddling these kids and I tend to agree. Not everyone gets a trophy, Susie. If you want one you earn it. However, we're so touchy about feelings anymore that we're doing more harm than good. As that poster said, as well, it's as if these kids are throwing toddler-esque temper tantrums, but the difference is that they're adolescents with fire arms.

Being in academia, myself, I can definitively say that how POC are treated is very much a geographical thing and also depends on the type of school they go to. I've seen little Johnny Smith get out of shit more times than I've seen Tito Jackson get out of it. It's all very subjective when you get to that level. This is why my opinion is that emotion has to be taken out of this conversation all together. It's clearly not working so let's find something that does.
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If Tito is getting called out on his bad behavior more frequently than little fair-skinned Johnny, that might be an argument for the idea that coddling people is bad. Tell them they've done no wrong and all problems are someone else's fault and it produces awful people. Maybe that's why more school shootings are done by white kids.

NatLikesMonsters dijo:
Do you think that one of the reasons school shootings and similar events are a white male dominated career is because there's just more white men in the country? As, in the rare likelihood for a school shooting to occur, it's just sort of a numbers game that decides it will most likely be a white male?
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Whatthefuck dijo:
I also don’t understand why you guys are resistant to the fact that young white men are predominantly pulling this shit
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RodgerDodger dijo:
The whole "White Male" thing is a bit of a myth. And requires that you limit things to school shootings. If you look at Spree shootings the ranks of shooters are a bit more diverse. With the exception that yes it is mostly male.
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What RodgerDodger said. It's a total myth that whites are committing more of the violence overall, and it's propagated by the very racist never-their-fault white man's burden attitude that I was talking about: black teen boys and men are shooting and killing each other constantly and no one in the media or academia cares. The ones that are doing the shooting aren't shooting up schools because most of them probably dropped out of school before they got started in the violent life, they just kill each other in their run-down neighborhoods instead. And no one cares. If you think about it, it's really racist in a particularly pathetic and sad way that a white kid doing a shooting is the only kind of shooting that elicits any reaction of outrage from the media and the usual lefty talking heads, because they expect whites to live up to a higher standard, whereas blacks killing blacks is just business as usual and not worth talking about. How are black people ever supposed to climb the ladder when the only group of assholes who monopolize all discussion of their situation just uniformly decide that not only can blacks not be expected to do any better, but they'll sabotage any blacks who speak against the narrative by calling them uncle toms?
 
Well that's interesting. So the "White males proportionally commit most mass shootings" is utter bullshit, even when controlled for gang shootings not counting as mass shootings...

However, "The press has an incredible bias toward reporting shootings done by white males" is completely true, and explains the apparent disparity.
 
I'm not sure the troon shouldn't get some slack in part for being a troon if she was given hormones. She's a minor right? So at least some of the responsibility lies with the people that decided to treat her depression and body dysmorphia with aggressive hormone therapy that is known to cause anger and violence.
 
Otterly dijo:
The conversation that needs to happen is what do we do with troubled kids and why are mental health conditions so much more prevalent in the last ten years?
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It's been a thing much longer than 10 years. Remember all the ritalin ADD shit from the early 00's?

I can't really say anything has gotten worse but it sure hasn't gotten better either, despite all these measures taken to combat it. This stuff has always been perpetrated by autismos who fantasize about inflicting pain and suffering on society. Why school counselors still haven't weeded these fuckers out and pressured parents to get them in an institutions baffles me.

Your Weird Fetish dijo:
I'm not sure the troon shouldn't get some slack in part for being a troon if she was given hormones. She's a minor right? So at least some of the responsibility lies with the people that decided to treat her depression and body dysmorphia with aggressive hormone therapy that is known to cause anger and violence.
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I don't think zhe was taking T. No face whiskers.
It looks more like hair cut short, ace bandage the tits, and wear boy clothes kind of troonery.
 
My local liberal rag, SFgate, put out an article about this with very ligtle if any info about the perpetrators. So I did my duty to post the name and facebook archive link saying "this will get memoryhole'd in a hot minute as it doesn't fit the narative."

Insta ban'd. Entire comment section reset as far as I can tell.
Funny, that.

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I cant seem to find the article anymore either. It apparently isnt front page news anymore.
 
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