Two students were shot at a high school in Colorado on Wednesday afternoon, and the suspected shooter was also wounded, authorities said.
The two victims were hospitalized in critical condition after the shooting at Evergreen High School, Jefferson County sheriff’s office spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said.
The shooter has not been publicly identified, but Kelley said they were almost certainly a student at the school, which sits about 20 miles southeast of downtown Denver.
Kelley said it’s unclear how the shooter was wounded but added, “I don’t believe law enforcement fired any rounds today.”
The first 911 call from the school came in at 12:24 p.m., followed by dozens more from the school with more than 900 students, Kelley said.
“This is the scariest thing you can ever think that could happen, and these parents were really frightened, and so were the kids,” Kelley said.
The shooter used a handgun in the attack, but little other information was immediately available, according to Kelley. She said officers would be interviewing students and searching any properties connected to the attacker.
Wednesday’s incident is the fifth school shooting in Colorado since the 1999 Columbine shooting, according to the Denver Post. The most recent school shooting occurred in 2019, when two students killed one person and wounded eight others at STEM School Highlands Ranch.
