Former student guilty of murder in Colorado school shooting
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DENVER (AP) – One of two former students accused in a fatal shooting at a suburban Denver school in 2019 was found guilty of murder, attempted murder and other crimes Tuesday.
The verdict against Devon Erickson came a day after lawyers delivered closing arguments in his trial. Prosecutors said Erickson, now 20, was a full partner with Alec McKinney in the shooting that killed one student at STEM School Highlands Ranch in an incorporated suburban community south of Denver. The shooting happened in the high school portion of the school, which had all grades.
Man convicted of killing student in Colorado STEM school shooting
By Amir Vera and Kay Jones, CNN
A Colorado jury on Tuesday found one of the suspects in a deadly Colorado school shooting guilty of more than 40 charges, including murder.
Devon Erickson was found guilty of first-degree murder degree with extreme indifference, first degree-murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and 30 counts of criminal attempt of first-degree murder.
He also was found guilty of 12 other charges related to the shooting.
The jury started deliberations on Monday morning, according to court records. Erickson’s trial began on May 27 after three days of jury selection.
FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file photo, Devon Erickson appears in court at the Douglas County Courthouse in Castle Rock, Colo. Erickson one of the suspects in a fatal attack at STEM School Highlands Ranch in May 2019 had become such a chronic drug user in the months before the shooting that he likely couldn t think, concentrate or understand events around him that day, a toxicologist called by the defense testified Friday, June 11, 2021. Erickson has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in the school shooting that killed 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo and injured eight others.
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Second of two Colorado school shooters convicted of murder
By Keith Coffman
Reuters
DENVER (Reuters) - A former student who opened fire inside a Colorado high school in 2019 was convicted of murder on Tuesday for killing a classmate who charged the gunman to save his classmates lives.
A jury in Douglas County, Colorado took less than a day to find Devon Erickson guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting rampage at Science, Technology, Engineering and Math School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, on May 7, 2019.
Erickson carried out the shooting alongside a friend, Alec McKinney, who pleaded guilty last year to murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and weapons charges.
Suspect found guilty of murder, all other charges in Colorado school shooting
David Zalubowski/AP
FILE - In this May 8, 2019, file photo, bouquet of flowers rest on the sign outside the STEM School Highlands Ranch in Highlands Ranch, Colo., after a shooting took place. The security guard who accidentally injured two students while shooting at a deputy whom he thought was a shooter will not be criminally charged, but he must complete community service and attend a diversion program for improper use of a weapon on school grounds, a special prosecutor said Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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