EVERGREEN, Colo. — The two victims of the Evergreen High School shooting from last week remain hospitalized in serious and critical conditions, hospital officials said Monday.
One of the victims remains at CommonSpirit St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood and is listed in critical condition but stable. A second victim was transferred to Children’s Hospital Colorado and was upgraded from critical to serious condition.
Both victims are students at Evergreen High School and were shot Wednesday afternoon by the suspected shooter and fellow student, Desmond Holly, 16. The suspect died after he turned the gun on himself. It is still unclear how he selected his victims.
One of the victims was identified as Matthew Silverstone, 18 years old. Information on the second victim has not been released.
Classes at Evergreen High School remain canceled following last week’s shooting. It’s not known when they will resume.
It was revealed on Friday by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism that the suspected shooter had been active on an online forum where users watch videos of killings and violence, mixed in with content on white supremacism and antisemitism.
A spokesperson for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Mark Techmeyer, declined to comment on the ADL’s findings or discuss its investigation into the shooting.
The shooting prompted at least one other school district, Aurora Public Schools, to review its safety protocols more closely.
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A student shot two of his peers Wednesday at a suburban Denver high school before shooting himself and later dying, authorities said.The handgun shooting was reported around 12:30 p.m. at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, about 30 miles west of Denver in the Rocky Mountain foothills.Shots were fired both inside and outside the school building, and law enforcement officers who responded found the shooter within five minutes of arriving, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said.None of the law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting fired any shots, Kelley said.More than 100 police officers from the surrounding area rushed to the school to try to help, Kelley said. A 1999 school shooting at Jefferson County’s Columbine High killed 14 people, including a woman who died earlier this year of complications from her injuries in the shooting.The teens were originally listed in critical condition, St. Anthony Hospital CEO Kevin Cullinan said. Their ages were not released.By early evening, one teen was in stable condition with what Dr. Brian Blackwood, the hospital’s trauma director, described as non-life threatening injuries. He declined to provide more details.The high school with more than 900 students is largely surrounded by forest. It is about a mile from the center of Evergreen, which has a population of 9,300 people.After the shooting, parents gathered outside a nearby elementary school waiting to reunite with their children.Wendy Nueman said her 15-year-old daughter, a sophomore at Evergreen High School, didn’t answer her phone right away after the shooting, The Denver Post reported. When her daughter finally called back, it was from a borrowed phone.“She just said she was OK. She couldn’t hardly speak,” Nueman said, holding back tears. She gathered that her daughter ran from the school.“It’s super scary,” she said. “We feel like we live in a little bubble here. Obviously, no one is immune.”Eighteen students who fled from the shooting took shelter at a home just down the road, after an initial group of them pounded on the door asking for help, resident Don Cygan told Denver’s KUSA-TV. One student said he heard gunshots while in the school’s cafeteria and ran out of the school, Cygan said.Cygan, a retired educator familiar with lockdown trainings to prepare for possible shootings, said he took down the names of all the students and the names of the parents who later arrived there to pick them up. His wife, a retired nurse, was able to calm the teens down and treat them for shock, he said.“I hope they feel like they ran to the right house,” he said._____Brown reported from Billings, Montana.
DENVER —
A student shot two of his peers Wednesday at a suburban Denver high school before shooting himself and later dying, authorities said.
The handgun shooting was reported around 12:30 p.m. at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, about 30 miles west of Denver in the Rocky Mountain foothills.
Shots were fired both inside and outside the school building, and law enforcement officers who responded found the shooter within five minutes of arriving, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said.
None of the law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting fired any shots, Kelley said.
More than 100 police officers from the surrounding area rushed to the school to try to help, Kelley said. A 1999 school shooting at Jefferson County’s Columbine High killed 14 people, including a woman who died earlier this year of complications from her injuries in the shooting.
The teens were originally listed in critical condition, St. Anthony Hospital CEO Kevin Cullinan said. Their ages were not released.
By early evening, one teen was in stable condition with what Dr. Brian Blackwood, the hospital’s trauma director, described as non-life threatening injuries. He declined to provide more details.
The high school with more than 900 students is largely surrounded by forest. It is about a mile from the center of Evergreen, which has a population of 9,300 people.
After the shooting, parents gathered outside a nearby elementary school waiting to reunite with their children.
Wendy Nueman said her 15-year-old daughter, a sophomore at Evergreen High School, didn’t answer her phone right away after the shooting, The Denver Post reported. When her daughter finally called back, it was from a borrowed phone.
“She just said she was OK. She couldn’t hardly speak,” Nueman said, holding back tears. She gathered that her daughter ran from the school.
“It’s super scary,” she said. “We feel like we live in a little bubble here. Obviously, no one is immune.”
Eighteen students who fled from the shooting took shelter at a home just down the road, after an initial group of them pounded on the door asking for help, resident Don Cygan told Denver’s KUSA-TV. One student said he heard gunshots while in the school’s cafeteria and ran out of the school, Cygan said.
Cygan, a retired educator familiar with lockdown trainings to prepare for possible shootings, said he took down the names of all the students and the names of the parents who later arrived there to pick them up. His wife, a retired nurse, was able to calm the teens down and treat them for shock, he said.
“I hope they feel like they ran to the right house,” he said.
EVERGREEN, Colo. – Shaken parents rushed to a reunification center Wednesday afternoon for any word on the condition of their children following a shooting at Evergreen High School that injured three students, including the suspected shooter.
Two students were critically injured and the third suffered non-life threatning injuries.
All three juveniles were transported to CommonSpirit St. Anthony Health Center in Lakewood as Jeffco Public Schools works to contact stunned families.
Denver7 news reporter Veronica Acosta has been talking to students and parents at the reunification center at Bergen Meadow Elementary who shared what they heard and saw as the shooting unfolded.
An Evergreen High School freshman told Denver7 he was outside on campus when he heard popping noises and tried to get inside as soon as possible.
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“It was just a lot. I walked outside the gym and heard shots. Multiple shots kept firing,” said Tye, a freshman. “Just loud pops and at first, I didn’t think it was anything – I just heard it repeatedly and it kept shooting and then I knew it was shots.”
He said his phone was broken and he was unable to text his parents. Tye’s father told Denver7 he tried to get any news he could on the shooting.
“Information started pouring in and you’re just terrified, like ‘oh my gosh – is he okay?’ You just wait and hope for the best – contact other parents to see if they’ve heard anything,” said Tye’s father.
Denver7 reporter Acosta saw at least 6 school buses with students who were to be reunited with their families. Denver7 also spoke to student Brenner Johnson and his mother Shannon Taylor, who rushed to the school.
You can watch their interview in the video player below.
‘I felt sick’: Students react to Evergreen HS shooting
“There was a message over the intercom and they basically just said that like they were going into lockdown. I was in the nurse’s office right before it happened, so I heard the walkie talkies before too,” said Brenner.
His mom, holding back tears, said she was overwhelmed when she saw a text message come through from Brenner that he was okay.
“It’s really scary. We got here as soon as we could and the staff was amazing at letting me in and getting me to him and then they told me they could let me in,” said Shannon. “They couldn’t let me leave because he was in the nurse’s office. So I just stayed for a while with him, instead of staying to see these teachers. Their broken hearts. They’re doing the best they can.”
She told Denver7 her father was a first responder at the Columbine tragedy in 1999 and Brenner had been homeschooled until recently. This is his first year at Evergreen Middle School, she said.
Describing what she saw after rushing to the school, Evergreen High School parent Victoria Hutchen told Denver7 the road leading up to the campus was littered with backpacks and water bottles as students fled the shooter during the chaos.
The photo below shows a few of the items she picked up for safekeeping
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Evergreen High School sophomore Charlie Hutchen was in the cafeteria when he heard a commotion before the sound of gunshots.
“One of my friends – he was like ‘everyone be quiet’ and we actually heard the (lockdown) announcement,” said Hutchen. “While we were running, we just heard two shots.”
He said they ran outside onto a neighborhood dirt road.
“Kids dropping their backpacks and everything. I never thought this would happen at our school.”Fellow EHS sophomore Jax Schraad said the shots sounded close to their location.
“We ran – there was another shot behind us and that was like, really made people scream. I cut over a bunch of hills, because i think a lot of people are going to the police station,” said Schraad. “I banged on this guy’s house. I started banging, I started kicking it, and he opened the door.”
Law enforcement said they had completed a room-by-room check of the school and no other suspects or devices were believed to have been involved.
This story will be updated as we hear from more students and parents.
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Three teens were critically wounded in a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, including the suspected shooter, on Wednesday, authorities said.The shooting was reported around 12:30 p.m. at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, about 30 miles west of Denver, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said.It is not clear what led up to the shooting or how the suspected shooter, believed to be a student at the school, was shot. None of the law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting is believed to have fired any shots, Kelley said.The shooting happened on school grounds but it wasn’t immediately known whether it was inside the school building, she said.All three teens taken to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, were shot, CEO Kevin Cullinan said.Over 100 police officers from around the Denver area rushed to the school to try to help, Kelley said. The sheriff’s office is the same agency that responded to the school shooting at the 1999 Columbine High School shooting that killed 14 people, including a woman who died earlier this year of complications from her injuries in the shooting.”This is the scariest thing that could ever happen, and these parents were really frightened, and so were the kids,” Kelley said. “And I know we say ‘never again,’ and here we are.”FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the FBI is on scene and “in full support of local authorities.”
DENVER —
Three teens were critically wounded in a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, including the suspected shooter, on Wednesday, authorities said.
The shooting was reported around 12:30 p.m. at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, about 30 miles west of Denver, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said.
It is not clear what led up to the shooting or how the suspected shooter, believed to be a student at the school, was shot. None of the law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting is believed to have fired any shots, Kelley said.
The shooting happened on school grounds but it wasn’t immediately known whether it was inside the school building, she said.
All three teens taken to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, were shot, CEO Kevin Cullinan said.
Over 100 police officers from around the Denver area rushed to the school to try to help, Kelley said. The sheriff’s office is the same agency that responded to the school shooting at the 1999 Columbine High School shooting that killed 14 people, including a woman who died earlier this year of complications from her injuries in the shooting.
“This is the scariest thing that could ever happen, and these parents were really frightened, and so were the kids,” Kelley said. “And I know we say ‘never again,’ and here we are.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the FBI is on scene and “in full support of local authorities.”
