Colorado student who shot two school administrators had been on probation for a weapons charge

NBC News ^ | March 23, 2023 | Safia Samee Ali

[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...

[Red Badger]

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..............................

[libertylover]

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.

[caww]

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.

[sasquatch]

A new law should take care of this.

Better yet, two or three.

[Red Badger]

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.................

[Chode]

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

[ridesthemiles]

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.

[caww]

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

[Red Badger]

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

[caww]

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

[Red Badger]

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 ..............