DENVER – Two male students armed with guns burst into a Denver-area science and technology school and opened fire on Tuesday, killing one classmate and wounding seven others before being taken into custody, law enforcement officials said.
The Radio Pakistan reported that several of the surviving victims of the attack at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) School in Highlands Ranch, a Denver suburb, were initially listed in critical condition at local hospitals and in surgery, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said at a briefing.
According to the district, the school combines elementary, middle and high school on one campus has 1,850 students enrolled.
The gun violence in Colorado came one week to the day after a 22-year-old gunman killed two people and injured another four on the Charlotte campus of the University of North Carolina.
