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Colorado student who shot two school administrators had been on probation for a weapons charge
NBC News ^ | March 23, 2023 | Safia Samee Ali

Posted on 03/27/2023 7:28:17 AM PDT by Twotone

The Colorado high school student who shot and injured two school administrators after they discovered his gun during a mandatory pat down had been on probation for a weapons charge, a law enforcement source said Thursday.

Austin Lyle, 17, who shot two deans at Denver East High School on Wednesday, was arrested on a weapons charge in 2021 shortly before he was expelled from Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado, the source said.

Classmates at Overland High School flagged posts about guns on Lyle’s social media, prompting police to visit his parents’ home, the source said. His parents let the officers in and they found a rifle with a “high capacity magazine and a silencer” in his room. Lyle was charged with a felony but the court dropped the charge and instead put him on one-year probation for the incident, the source said.

A representative for Cherry Creek School District said Lyle was “disciplined for violating board policy” during the 2021-2022 school year and consequently “removed from Overland High School.” It is unclear if the weapons incident was the violation.

Lyle then began attending Denver East High School and was bound by a “safety plan” which stated that he agreed to be patted down every morning, Denver police said.

The teen opened fire on two school staffers after they discovered a gun during his Wednesday morning pat down. Lyle was found dead in a nearby county following the incident, authorities said. Park County Coroner David Kintz Jr. said the results of a preliminary autopsy indicate Lyle died as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

It is unclear if Lyle’s previous weapons’ charge prompted his safety plan. Both the Denver Public School District and the Cherry Creek School District declined to provide details about Lyle’s safety plan...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
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To: caww

At 17, where did he get these high powered weapons? Or access thereto?

Were they legally bought and owned by his parent(s)?

And what kind of home life did he have? Certainly not Christian..............................


21 posted on 03/27/2023 8:09:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Twotone
Austin Lyle, 17, who had been on probation for a weapons charge, ... shot two deans at Denver East High School

Seems determined to throw his life away.

22 posted on 03/27/2023 8:25:07 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Red Badger
Regardless how those questions are answered.....he pulled the trigger deliberately murdering school officials.

I no longer give a crap what childhood they had, how they got their guns, or who their parents are. He knew what he was doing before he took the shots.

23 posted on 03/27/2023 8:27:42 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Twotone

A new law should take care of this.

Better yet, two or three.


24 posted on 03/27/2023 8:37:45 AM PDT by sasquatch
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To: caww

True, but I would like to know if he lived in a house where ‘hate whitey because all your problems are because of him’ was the rule.................


25 posted on 03/27/2023 8:41:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Twotone

the parent’s responsibility to check the backpack, and they dint...


26 posted on 03/27/2023 8:54:36 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Reno89519

Parents have to step UP and quit hiding their embarrassment

We all have known families with generations of mental issues who have produced offspring who are downright dangerous to others.


27 posted on 03/27/2023 9:27:49 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Red Badger

I’ve never known any who didn’ think that way. It gos hand in glove in their culture.


28 posted on 03/27/2023 10:25:59 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww

I have known many who didn’t think that way, but then again, they were devoutly religious types...........


29 posted on 03/27/2023 10:34:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Now days I paint with a broad brush on that note. Too risky otherwise.


30 posted on 03/27/2023 10:42:34 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww

The ones I knew were the exception and not the average.

Before I joined the Marines in 1973, we lived in a subdivision that was rapidly becoming all black, as whites were moving out in droves. I was the paperboy for a large portion of that subdivision. I was robbed twice on teh street of my paper proceeds, and beaten in HS ..............


31 posted on 03/27/2023 11:08:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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