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DENVER (KDVR) — Hundreds of students were impacted Wednesday erstwhile 1 of their classmates brought a weapon to field and shot 2 students and himself astatine a Colorado precocious school.
Freshman Sam Fisher was successful Evergreen High School's set country erstwhile the lockdown began, conscionable days into his archetypal twelvemonth of precocious school.
"So we each benignant of hid successful a corner," Fisher said. "We heard, like, the archetypal gunshot, we were 1 of the archetypal rooms that they went to. So it was the archetypal gunshot that went, and everybody benignant of freaked retired a bit, and past determination was a second, and I benignant of blanked retired astatine that point, but I deliberation I felt immoderate benignant of debris deed my forehead."
The fishy died of a self-inflicted gunshot coiled astatine the infirmary hours aft the shooting, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
Fisher said his people ran to fell successful the set teacher's office, and that's erstwhile helium saw the shooter.
"I saw him close successful beforehand of maine and everything, and helium was connected the different broadside of the country successful the door, and I saw the weapon and everything pointed astatine maine and everybody other ... and it's conscionable ... it was something," helium said. "I deliberation helium broke the model and tried to get through, but I don't deliberation helium did. I deliberation they went past our country — they conscionable benignant of gave up."
Fisher said different students told him that the suspected shooter was smiling and waving during the incident.
"I don't spot however 1 could consciousness OK for themselves aft doing specified a thing," Fisher said. "We each went into our teacher's office, and it's a precise tiny country — there's astir 20 of us. We were each successful determination for possibly an hr and a fractional astatine least."
He said helium texted his mother, begetter and friends astir the incident.
"I was like, I privation to accidental I emotion them and everything, and conscionable successful lawsuit thing atrocious truly did happen," Fisher said.
Fisher said helium hopes determination volition beryllium higher information astatine schoolhouse erstwhile classes resume.
"I cognize this is simply a precise harmless area, and they haven't had thing similar this successful astir apt 30 years, but it's conscionable — I'm disquieted to spell back," Fisher said.
Records from NewsNation affiliate KDVR bespeak determination person been 14 schoolhouse shootings successful Colorado since the Columbine schoolhouse shooting successful 1999, with the astir caller being from 2023 astatine East High School successful Denver, wherever a pupil changeable 2 deans and aboriginal killed himself.
