Just a week after the tragic school shooting in Charlotte at UNCC, a Colorado student was shot dead and eight others were injured in an attack at STEM School Highland Ranch, a high school near Denver. Two STEM students, Alec McKinney and Devon Erickson, are accused of using handguns to attack their schoolmates in an English class on Tuesday afternoon. An 18-year-old student, Kendrick Castillo, was killed when he tackled one of the shooters to protect his classmates. Keep reading for more news. Parlier & Howell. North Carolina continues to grieve the loss of the two UNCC students who were killed in the campus shooting last week. The New York Times has a lengthy story about Riley Howell and The State has one about Reed Parlier. Scholarship funds honoring each young man have been established at UNCC. Suspect Charged. As WSOC TV reports, the suspect in the UNCC shooting, Trystan Terrell, was indicted this week on charges of murder, attempted murder, and assault. The WSOC report indicates that students who were in the classroom have said that Terrell targeted a specific table of students, though few other details of the incident were available at the time of writing. New Trial. This week the North Carolina Court of Appeals vacated Chad Copley’s conviction for first-degree murder and granted him a new trial because of a prosecutor’s comments during closing arguments suggesting that race may have been a factor in Copley’s decision to shoot Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas in 2016. WRAL has a story [...]
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