The man convicted of first-degree murder in the deadly 2019 shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch was sentenced to two terms of of life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday, plus scores of additional years. The sentencing of Devon Erickson by Douglas County District Judge Theresa Slade in a Castle Rock courtroom followed a lengthy […]
STEM SChool Highlands Ranch shooting trial
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STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting trial in jury’s hands
Seconds before shots rang out in Room 107 at STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019, an armed Devon Erickson sent a message to his friend, who also had guns in his bag. “Go now,” he wrote, according to phone records. Prosecutors in the case against Erickson focused on that message along with physical […]
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Active shooter drills are part of school life. Can they be done better?
By Caitlyn Kim, CPR News The Lockdown Drill Generation. That’s what 17-year-old Ellie Perlmutter said she’s part of. No, it has nothing to do with the pandemic. It’s the generation of students that have had to participate in active shooter drills at school. Approximately 95% of schools practice what to do in case a shooter […]
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Defense rests its case in STEM school shooting trial, closing arguments to begin Monday
DENVER — One of the suspects in a fatal attack at a suburban Denver high school in 2019 had become such a chronic drug user in the months before the shooting that he likely “couldn’t think, concentrate or understand” events around him that day, a toxicologist called by the defense testified Friday. Toxicologist Wanda Guidry […]
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Jury hears from survivors of STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting
Mitchell Kraus didn’t know he’d been shot until he’d already run a couple of blocks from STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019. When the student realized something was wrong, he took stock of his body, moving his hand to his back. It came back red with blood. The next thing he remembers wanting […]