Colorado Students Walk Out Of School Shooting Vigil After It Turns Political
May 9, 2019 By Mollie Hemingway
Colorado students walked out of an event billed as a vigil for Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old killed in a shooting at his school on Tuesday, when prominent speakers attempted to turn it into a rally for gun control. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) each took a turn calling for gun control at the Douglas County event before students streamed out in protest.
Two students at STEM Highlands Ranch, a K-12 charter school focused on science, technology, engineering, and math, shot nine students, one fatally. The accused students, who were arrested, are an adult male and a juvenile femalewho identifies as male. The accused male had written anti-Christian social mediamessages. He drove a car with a pentagram spray-painted on the hood, as well as other graffiti:
In response to the shooting, a public vigil was announced at another local public high school: Highlands Ranch High School. It was sponsored by the gun control groups Brady’s Team Enoughand March for Our Livesand featured Democratic politicians who seek limits on Second Amendment gun rights, but was billed instead as an event to remember and honor Castilloand other victims. As the politicians called for gun control, students left in protest over the politicization of the deaths and injuries.
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