{"id":312053,"date":"2019-05-08T04:37:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T04:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312053"},"modified":"2019-05-08T04:37:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T04:37:26","slug":"us-colorado-school-shooting-leaves-1-dead-and-several-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-colorado-school-shooting-leaves-1-dead-and-several-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"US: Colorado School Shooting leaves 1 dead and several injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304927 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gun-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Gun-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Gun.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A school shooting left one student dead and several others injured on Tuesday in the US state of Colorado, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two suspects were apprehended after the shooting at the\u00a0STEM School, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is with extreme sadness that we can confirm that 1 student at the STEM School was killed in today\u2019s #stemshooting incident. The immediate family has been notified. Douglas County Coroner Jill Romann has not officially identified the student is stating it\u2019s an 18-year-old male,\u201d DC Sheriff tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Spurlock identified one of the suspects as Devon Erickson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The suspects are believed to be students at the school, Spurlock said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAdult suspect has been identified as Devon Erickson, age 18. We will not be releasing any photos at this time as it could jeopardize this critical on-going invest. We still have interviews to conduct and we want to make sure we have the most accurate information,\u201d Spurlock said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said earlier that one suspect is an adult male and one is believed to be a juvenile and there were no other suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c8 students injured, several critical, area hospitals. No staff or officers injured,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The shooting began in the school just before 2 p.m., authorities said. The suspects walked into the school and got deep inside the school engaging students in two separate classrooms, Spurlock said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Officers did struggle with the suspects to take them into custody, Spurlock added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school shooting left one student dead and several others injured on Tuesday in the US state of Colorado, authorities said. Two suspects were apprehended after the shooting at the\u00a0STEM School, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said. \u201cIt is with extreme sadness that we can confirm that 1 student at the STEM School was killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[11323,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312055,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312053\/revisions\/312055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}