Posted on 09/13/2025 5:48:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The teenage boy who shot two schoolmates and then himself at a high school in Evergreen, Colorado, Wednesday, was “radicalized by some extremist network” before the attack, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
The shooter, 16-year-old Desmond Holly, has reportedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His two victims were transported to Denver-area hospitals, where they remained in critical condition, Thursday, the Denver Post reported. Investigators believe he opened fire at the school just before 12:30 p.m.
Spokeswoman Jacki Kelley did not provide details about Desmond’s radicalization other than the the fact the evidence was found in Desmond’s phone and home. Kelly said more info about his radicalization would be released “down the road.”
Desmond lived with his family in a sprawling mountain home on a private lane outside Kittridge, property records show. A road to the family’s house was blocked by a gate more than half a mile from the property.
On Wednesday, he rode the bus to school, Kelley said.
It was not immediately clear how he accessed the revolver he used in the attack or how he kept it hidden until midday.
Desmond brought “quite a bit of ammunition” with him, Kelley said. Authorities are still working to determine whether he targeted specific students, but noted he fired his gun many times throughout the school, she said.
“He would fire and reload, fire and reload,” Kelley said. “This went on and on. He tried to find new targets. He came up to a roadblock on many of those doors — he couldn’t get to those kids.”
She added: “We have windows shot out, lockers shot up. We are finding unspent rounds. It is a huge area… He fired multiple, multiple times.”
The spokeswoman said Desmond’s parents have “cooperated with the investigation” and that authorities are considering whether to file charges related to Desmond’s access to the gun.
Desmond’s father, Morgan, has scrubbed his social media pages, but previously, he had allegedly posted anti-Trump content on Facebook, according to screen captures shared online.
Evergreen High student Kai Taylor, 15, told the Post she “fled the shooting and sheltered in a nearby neighbor’s home.”
Taylor said he knew Desmond in middle school and talked with him on the school bus frequently, although they’d lost touch over the years.
“Even so, to know that you talked to someone like that — it almost disgusts me,” Taylor said.
The radicalization seems to be part of a strategy.
The DS communists are releaseing their wind-up toy zombies...
They have nothing left other than those....
Communism and Socialism is AIMED AT DESTROYING FAMILIES and SOULS!! period!
As usual, pupils as big as dimes.
Left-wing kamikazes.
When are we going to get serious about school security. I went to school in the early seventies where no one entered without passing through metal detectors and uniformed guards.
It has always been my belief that these school shootings have been orchestrated by the DemonRATS. Now they’ve begun their political assassinations. Read anything they print in their “media”. They are out to destroy and bring down America. Show me something, anything in any far-left “media” that gives Americans any credit for doing something good for America. All the bastards do is whine, cry and throw fascist tantrums all day long.
And Charlie Kirk was shot at 12:23 p.m. on the same day, also in the MDT time zone (correct?).
Another bag o’ crap raised by radicals or uncaring parents.
Wow! Times have changed. I went to school in the sixties where such devices would have been 100% unnecessary and a waste of money.
Why weren’t the teachers armed?
It’s more than ‘radicalization,’ it’s mind control.
The school I went to was shut down the year previous for race riots.
The extremist Network to which the Sheriff refers is the Democrat Party
Democratic Socialists of America. Bernie Sanders, AOC, Pelosi, etc.
They must disarm us first, in order to get complete control.
They have a youth division and money [501 groups, Soros, foreign and domestic backers ] and have gone from a fringe communist group to owning the Democratic Party. Their numbers peaked in 2022 but they still have some 200 chapters, they gave us the refund the police movement, they are chock full of pervs, and they are still pretty up front about being revolutionaries. Used to dominated by the self loathing bunch but now completely dominated by the BDS movement and lovers of Hamas.
Very much linked with Obama’s New Party in Illinois when he was in ascendency.
I went to high school in the seventies as well. Our buildings were on a major thoroughfare from Austin to Houston. Trucks in the student parking area adjacent to the highway were unlocked, windows down because of the heat and had gun racks with guns. We had not theft or shootings. Just a few black eyes from fist fights. A few.
For one, most students went to church on Sundays. We knew the Ten Commandments. Our teachers were Christians and we were taught to have respect for adults. Many teachers were Sunday School teachers as well. We also had a prayer in the morning over the loud speaker. If you didn’t participate, you stood there in silence...but the words filled the air!!
We had a tough county Sherriff and department as well as tough Superintendent and Principals.
THIS last sentence is what has changed. They want to be ‘friends’ with the youth. None of us wanted to visit the Superintendent’s office, seriously! Only a few did as things were taken care of in classrooms, not offices of the schools.
I see the breakdown of the family as the major reason for failures. Google the song, Dusty Bibles. There is the truth, IMO.
I am opposed to metal detectors at schools. Some people evidently need them at their homes!!!
Buried in the middle bottom of the story is the the fact this is another left wing commie supported George Soros influenced killer. If this had been a conservative nutcase the 'politics' would have been at the top of the story One more way the so call press is complicity in these killing. Oh, and the little commie filth shot at children first - a hallmark of the evil ones behind this crap.
The choice to kill innocent children a way to help us identify the evil behind this nightmare.
> When are we going to get serious about school security.<
There was a Gun Free Zone sign. What more could we possibly need? /sarc
EC
You will find the CIA all over this.
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