Colorado stem school shooting info about shooters gay and trans
Colorado STEM school shooter targeted kids over gender taunts, police say
One of two high school students accused of opening fire at STEM School Highlands Ranch near Denver in May, killing an 18-year-old, allegedly told police he targeted students who made fun of his gender identity and had been planning the shooting for a few weeks.
Court documents released Thursday shed new details on the May 7 shooting that killed Kendrick Castillo, 18, who has been called a hero for acting with others to stop one of the shooters at the STEM college, which is in a community south of Denver.
Devon Erickson, 18, and Alec McKinney, 16, who according to the documents told police he was transitioning and whose attorney says prefers male pronouns, have been charged with more than 40 counts including murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors have said both are being tried as adults.
Probable generate documents released Thursday are redacted and include only Erickson's name, but officials have said Erickson and McKinney are the only people charged in the shooting.
The documents portray the second suspect, not Erickson, as the person who planned the attack.
The documents say that suspect in interview
Colorado Shooting: One of the suspects reportedly identifies as transgender
One of the suspects in a school shooting in Colorado in Tuesday identifies as transgender, according to local reports.
One person was killed and another eight were injured on Tuesday when two students opened fire at STEM School Highlands Ranch outside of Denver.
Both suspects in the shooting, Devon Erickson, 18, and Alec McKinney, 16, appeared in court on Wednesday, with both also being linked to the LGBTQ community in subsequent media reports.
The Advocate obtained screenshots of Erickson’s Facebook page, which exhibit one of the teen’s profile images containing a rainbow overlay celebrating Pride.
According to the Denver Post, Erickson was involved in musical theater and was working as a vocal instructor. Aiden Beatty, his best friend, told the Post that Erickson wasn’t bullied, to his knowledge.
“He would say so-and-so doesn’t like me,” Beatty said, but didn’t talk about anything beyond that.
McKinney appeared in court under the name Maya McKinney, but his public defender told the court that his client prefers male pronouns and is called Alec, according to the Asso Five people were killed and two were injured in a mass shooting during Fourth of July weekend in Kingsessing. The suspect used an assault-style rifle to kill, seemingly at random, while wearing a bulletproof vest and a ski mask. Yet right-wing politicians and conservative media outlets seem to be obsessed with what the suspect wore in Facebook photos. On the shooter’s now-deleted Facebook page, photos showed the suspect with long braided hair while wearing “women’s” clothes. Conservatives were speedy to pick the story up and use it to perpetuate their transphobic beliefs. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene even took to far-right social media site gab to mention “Another trans shooter,” with a link to an article from the far-right conspiracy blog the Send Millennial. But what does Greene mean when she says “another”? According to Gun Force Archive, 372 mass shootings occurred across the land this year as of July 9. Add that to the 2,700 shootings that have occurred since 2018 and that totals 3,072 total mass shootings in the past five-and-a-half years. How many shootings were committed by trans suspects? There was one in Protest at Covenant School in Nashville COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — After the mass shooting last November at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen’s birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its reputation for being unwelcoming to gay, lesbian and transgender people. What motivated the shooter, who didn't grow up in Colorado Springs and is now serving life in prison, may never be known. But since the charge that killed five people, wounded 17 others and shattered the sense of safety at Club Q, which served as a refuge for the city's LGBTQ+ community, Colorado Springs has taken steps to alter itself as inclusive and welcoming. A recent LGBTQ+ resource center is set to open in the city, where an independent candidate surprisingly defeated a longtime Republican officeholder to become the first Black mayor of the city of roughly 480,000 people. And the owners of Club Q, which has been shuttered since the Nov. 19, 2022, attack, plan to build a memorial and reopen at a new location under the rebrand The Q. Mayor Yemi Mobolade, a West African immigrant who A tweet listing four mass shootings in the past five years that were perpetrated by transgender people has gone viral, attracting 5.4 million views as of 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday and the attention of Twitter's owner, Elon Musk. Benny Johnson, a political columnist and Turning Point U.S.A. official, wrote in his viral tweet: "One thing is VERY clear: the modern gender non-conforming movement is radicalizing activists into terrorists." Musk—who has expressed varying views on genderqueer issues and is reported to have a trans child—replied to the tweet with an exclamation tag, itself seen 2.2 million times. The tweet follows a school shooting in Nashville on Monday, in which Audrey Hale—identified by police as transgender—is suspected to have shot and killed six people, including three members of staff and three nine-year-old children. "The gender non-conforming movement is pushing more and more extremism each day," said Oli London, a media personality who has become critical of the transgender movement since deciding to detransition. "They recruit people, indoctrinate them and pump them packed of propaganda until they become filled with detest and rage." While some used the apparent p
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