A coroner's office says a body found in the Colorado woods near an abandoned car was that of a 17-year-old student accused of wounding two administrators in a shooting at his Denver high school.
March 23, 2023, 9:17 AMDenver Mayor Michael Hancock, center, walks across 17th Avenue to talk to parents as they wait for their children to be walked out of East High School after a school shooting Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Denver.
The shooting occurred at a school shaken by frequent lockdowns and violence, including the recent killing outside the school of a classmate that prompted East High School students to march on the Colorado Capitol earlier this month. There were no school resource officers on campus at the time of Wednesday’s shooting, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said.
In June 2020, amid a summer of protests over racial injustice following the murder of George Floyd, Denver Public Schools became one of the districts around the US that decided to. That push was fueled by criticism that school resource officers disproportionately arrested Black students, sweeping them into the criminal justice system.
Students from East High School had been scheduled to testify Wednesday afternoon before the Colorado Legislature on gun safety bills.
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