NEW: It’s a scene repeated far too often outside the nation’s schools after campus shootings. Worried parents flock to the schools and wait until their children are escorted by police from their classrooms.
Janaiya Hopper‘s eyes scanned through a crowd of anxious parents, searching for her mother. Then, from across a crowded intersection outside Denver’s East High School, they locked eyes.Hopper sobbed into her mother’s shoulder as a single tear trickled down Brown’s cheek. When the two finished their hug, the teen looked at her mom, and said, “I don’t want to go back to school.”
Meanwhile, police were searching for a 17-year-old student, Austin Lyle, in connection with the shooting, Denver police Chief Ron Thomas said he was to be considered armed and dangerous.“I don’t know what the solution is” Addison Goetz, 17, is embraced by her mother Jennifer as they leave Denver’s East High School after a shooting there on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Police said a student shot two adult male faculty members, and that a known suspect had left the school. All of the parents standing outside the school worried about their teens’ well-being.
Gurfinkel was friends with Luis Garcia, the soccer player who was fatally shot outside of the school in February. As the students huddled in the corner, rumors spread across social media about the reason for the lockdown.Students then heard teachers in the hallways, their voices raised as they urged students outside of the room to get into a classroom with a teacher.
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