High school senior Kendrick Castillo died saving his classmates when he lunged at one of the shooters that opened fire inside STEM School Highlands Ranch.
Eight were hurt inside the school that day. High School senior Kendrick Castillo died saving his classmates when he lunged at one of the shooters.
"I think Maria and me both woke up this morning reliving our worst nightmare about what May 7th was like 5 years ago," John Castillo, Kendrick's dad, said when asked about how he and his wife Maria Castillo were feeling on Tuesday. "Maria said it best you know. She didn’t send Kendrick to school to be a hero."
"It’s hard, you know. We come here but we can’t take him with us," he said."We come and we visit and we feel warmth and comfort momentarily, and then we walk away knowing that we wish we could have him with us. You know, it's crushing. It takes the breath out of you. You know we're not the same people."
"Reading some of the letters leave here," John Castillo said."Some of them its taken years before they can come out and visit with Kendrick and express their emotions, their gratitude for him saving their lives." opened across the street from the school. On Tuesday, the center held a day of commemoration to honor Kendrick by painting rocks in his memory.
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