School Shootings

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Text messages and videos sent by students at Evergreen High School during last week’s shooting incident give a powerful sense of what students there dealt with. And they hint at some of the feelings they’ll carry forward.

Experts say a teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine and expressed neo-Nazi views online.

Authorities say a 16-year-old boy who had been radicalized by an extremist network fired multiple shots with a revolver at Evergreen High School, wounding two classmates. Law enforcement officials released those details at a news conference Thursday, a day after the shooting.

A student shot two of his peers Wednesday at Evergreen High School before shooting himself and later dying, authorities said.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office confirms at least two students were shot on Wednesday.

The aftershocks — often unacknowledged in the years before mental health struggles were more widely recognized — led to some survivors suffering insomnia, dropping out of school, or disengaging from their spouses or families. But some have developed healthy ways to cope with the shadow of that horrific day through therapy and the support from an expanding group of fellow mass shooting survivors.

Chalkbeat Colorado Bureau Chief Erica Meltzer joined us to discuss the Denver school board's unanimous vote last week to release a recording of a closed meeting in March about bringing police officers back into schools.

Following threats and shootings in Northern Colorado schools this spring, school safety continues to be an urgent topic in many communities.

Poudre School District has kept police in schools despite efforts from community members in recent years to remove them. How is that decision shaking out following threats and gun violence in other Colorado schools?