DENVER — A student at Denver’s East High School shot two administrators Wednesday morning — leaving one critically injured — while the teen was being searched for weapons, police officials said. The student suspect remained at large hours later.
Denver police Chief Ron Thomas said the shooting occurred during a “security search” of a student based on past behavior — “a regular protocol with this student” — that detected a gun. The student fired shots around 9:50 a.m. “and was able to get out of the school.”
The student, who was not named because he is a juvenile, is required to be searched every morning as part of a preexisting safety plan, but administrators had never before found a gun on him, police and school officials said.
