The Colorado school shooter who opened fire ‘again and again’ on fellow high school students on Wednesday has been named and pictured by police.
Desmond Holly, 16, is shown in his driving license photograph in an image released by Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in the aftermath of the horror.
Holly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he fired at terrified children at Evergreen High School, close to Denver, during their lunch break just after noon.
Two students were rushed to hospital. Sheriff’s office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said that one victim has been discharged while the other remains in a critical condition.
‘We know that the suspect had a handgun,’ Kelley told a press conference on Thursday. ‘He had to keep reloading. He would fire and reload, fire and reload, fire and reload. This went on and on. As he did that, he tried to find new targets.’
‘Lots of kids ran, but the ones who didn’t were locked down and they were being cared for,’ she added.
Kelley said the first shots were fired from inside the school grounds, but the chaos ‘spilled out into the street behind the school’ where the second victim was shot.
A suspected motive has not been disclosed, but Kelley said police believe Holly was ‘radicalized by some extremist network’. ‘The details on that will come down the road,’ she said.
Desmond Holly, 16, is shown in his driving license photograph in an image released by Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in the aftermath of the horror
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said a gunman opened fire at Evergreen High School, located 28 miles southwest of Denver, just after noon local time. Photographs showed by police show several officers and sheriffs running towards the school wearing bulletproof vests
Kelley said Holly used a revolver, and detectives are investigating who owned the weapon. She told the Daily Mail that police are ‘in contact with’ Holly’s parents, and that they are cooperating with the investigation.
This is a breaking news story with updates to follow.
