2 Young People Shot At Middle School In Littleton (CO)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS4Denver

An arrest was made in Littleton Tuesday afternoon after two young people were shot at Deer Creek Middle School.

The victims suffered non-life threatening injuries in the crime, which apparently happened after 3 p.m. -- about the time school was letting out.

Jefferson County Sheriff spokesman Mark Techmeyer said the shooter was an adult male.

The school was on lockdown at 4 p.m. and students were being taken from the school to nearby Stony Creek Elementary at 7203 South Everett Street.

Deer Creek Middle School is part of the Jeffco Public Schools, located between Simms and Kipling north of Ken Caryl Avenue in a residential area.



Read more: http://cbs4denver.com/crime/shooting.deer.creek.2.1514598.html

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Two students have been shot at the Deer Creek Middle School this afternoon and the suspected shooter - an adult male - is in custody, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's department.

Mark Techmeyer, spokesman for the sheriff's department, said the two juveniles have been transported to a hospital.

He said one victim was shot inside the school, the other outside.

Techmeyer said that the wounds are not life-threatening although the man was using a "high-powered weapon."

Techmeyer said he did not know if the weapon was a rifle or handgun, though witnesses described it as a rifle.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14456094

Littleton was the site of the Columbine High School massacre.

[Soylent Brice]

1. damn that's sad.

[pasto76]

2. gazette.com has this up

and the first two comments are right wingnutjobs decrying the how "librals" have made this world unsafe. This on the same day that CSU bans concealed weapons on their campuses.

told them it was good to see the rightwing hasnt changed their stance on school shootings - kids get shot and somehow we get lectured about how librals are destroying america.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. An adult male?

:scared:

[Art_from_Ark]

10. An "adult male" can be any male as young as 18

Middle school students, up to age 15?

A possible age difference of 3 years?

[Garbo 2004]

11. Shooter identified in news reports as 32 yrs old. nt

[Xenotime]

19. What was he? A teacher?

Did he have a license for the gun?

[anachro1]

4. I see....

Keeping the traditions alive.

[SteveM]

5. God, I hope the school didn't post a "gun-free zone" for everybody to see.

Hopefully, the kids will be alright.

[Paladin]

7. Because Then It Would Be All Their Fault, Is That What You're Saying?

Really classy of you......

[SteveM]

16. No, the fault is with the PERSON shooting. I don't want to "invite them," do you?

You'll have to tell me sometime about how one can maintain their private, narcissistic, and symbolic "gun-free" classiness, yet not be moved when some spittle-flying ass-hole takes the path of least resistance to do his mayhem.

[greenbird]

6. Bomb scare at my daughter's high school today.

Some kid wrote a bomb threat on the boys' bathroom wall. The whole school was evacuated and they brought in bomb-sniffing dogs from the airport. It was probably a prank, but they have to err on the side of caution. Strange times.

[applegrove]

8. Please not again.

[alp227]

9. Never forget 1999.

1999 was a good time to be an American...but it was disrupted that spring by some disaffected youth.

Sadly, some people just lack respect. :cry:

[Rocknrule]

12. WTF IS WRONG WITH COLORADO?!?!?!

Are they raising monsters here or something?

First Columbine. Then Platte Canyon. Then YWAM/New Life. Now this? You can't even throw a snowball in this state without hitting a place that's been shot up now.

I know these things happen everywhere, but it seems like Colorado is the worst. Sadly this isn't the first time I've been ashamed of my state.

[anachro1]

13. Is not Colorado

mostly Republican? There's your answer.

[Rocknrule]

14. Well most of the Bible Belt is too

For example, Texas. And most Bible Belt states are more heavily populated than Colorado. But we're not a densely populated state like Texas, which means we have a bigger person-to-evil-motherfucker ratio, judging by our string of shooting incidents. Plus, CO went to Obama. My state has tons of redeeming values, I just don't get how we've become the shooting rampage capital of America.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

18. Um-m-m-m...

Our governor is democrat.

Our state legislature is democrat controlled.

Both our senators are democrat.

Five of our 7 representatives are democrat.



Please stop politicizing other people's tragedies.

[phatkatt]

21. Well ...

There are really two Colorados, the mountains and the plains. The plains are basically Kansas West. And then there is Colorado Springs (gag). The mountains are pretty liberal. And then there's Boulder (loves it). Denver is sort of in between. Littleton is urban sprawl 'burb hell (my father lives near there). Hummers, big screen TV's, mega-churches, strip malls, gated communities, etc. The never satisfying quest for stuff.

I love the mountain part of Colorado. The other, not so much ...

[Judi Lynn]

15. Teacher tackles gunman supected in school shooting

Teacher tackles gunman supected in school shooting
By P. SOLOMON BANDA
The Associated Press
Wednesday, February 24, 2010; 5:26 AM

LITTLETON, Colo. -- Math teacher David Benke says he had no time to fear for his life when he tackled a man he said was preparing to reload a rifle to shoot students at a Colorado middle school who were heading home for the day.

And Benke doesn't consider himself a hero for stopping the 32-year-old accused of wounding two students Tuesday at the Littleton school that's just miles from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.

"You know, it bugs me that he got another round off," Benke said of the two shots that authorities say Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood fired.

On Tuesday, Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink praised Benke, calling him a hero. Benke, the father of 7-year-old twins and a 13-year-old girl, fought back tears after Mink thanked him.

"I know he feels bad about not being able to intervene sooner, but believe me when I say, I think he stopped what could have been a more tragic event than it was this afternoon," Mink said.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022400989.html

[driver8]

23. If I had tackled the shooter, they would have to pry my hands off of his neck.

David Benke is a hero!

[apnu]

17. Queue the NRA response: "This wouldn't have happened if we let our children carry concealed uzis"

(OK do I really need to put the :sarcasm: tag on?)

[RamboLiberal]

20. Gunman was mumbling he was "I'm fighting for freedom"

A parent who saw the incident told KMGH that the gunman kept mumbling, "I'm fighting for freedom. I'm fighting for freedom," as he was being subdued.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/24/colorado.school.shooting/index.html?hpt=T2

[FedUpWithIt All]

22. Yikes.

:-(

[Javaman]

24. Life during wartime...

pick your war.