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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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1 posted on 03/27/2023 7:28:17 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Sorry, not sorry, but this is funny.

If only there had been some kind of warning?🚩🚩🚩


2 posted on 03/27/2023 7:31:48 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Twotone

“...found a rifle with a “high capacity magazine and a silencer”


If, indeed the rifle had a silencer and Lyle didn’t have the required tax stamp for same, we’re talking a serious Federal offense. People have been shot and killed for not having the required tax stamp.


3 posted on 03/27/2023 7:32:18 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Twotone

Since he is now dead, time for both schools to be transparent on his history, also what mental issues, if any, did he have. Why was he bringing firearm to school—bullied or to bully? A bit more detail would be helpful to understand what was going on here.


4 posted on 03/27/2023 7:32:55 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: Twotone

Deviants and criminals almost always give society ample advanced notice about their character and intentions. Today America has elected or appointed officials who ignore these warnings, sympathize and identify with the miscreants and very obviously hate America and most of the people they serve. In their mind nothing bad enough can happen to white Christians. They perhaps not openly but in reality celebrate the people who harm white Christians and try to destroy their families and culture. Be it at the level of Soros funded DAs or the Biden cabal that has opened the border and allowed fentanyl, criminals and spies to flood into America, these people take great delight in the destruction they promote.


5 posted on 03/27/2023 7:37:22 AM PDT by allendale
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6 posted on 03/27/2023 7:38:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: hanamizu

Wars have been started for not having the required tax stamp......................


7 posted on 03/27/2023 7:39:32 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

How it should have gone is the boy, once expelled for weapons at school should have been online at home taught, or placed in residential treatment to finish is FAPE (free, appropriate public education).

But they never want to spend the money. He was 17, wouldn’t have taken much. Hopefully the two injured people will sue the crap out of the school.

Then they can pay. And the kid might still be alive.

But our experts always know better.


8 posted on 03/27/2023 7:41:58 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Red Badger

Why didn’t they do something sooner... Oh, never mind.


9 posted on 03/27/2023 7:42:44 AM PDT by Do_Tar (All my comments are creative or artistic expression.)
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To: americas.best.days...

Probably just a few months from his record being expunged, graduating high school, and then off to college. Well, the first one, anyway.


10 posted on 03/27/2023 7:43:12 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: americas.best.days...

Red flags are racist.


11 posted on 03/27/2023 7:45:58 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Red Badger

Annnnnnnnnd it’s down the old memory hole. But not before some judicious photoshop skin enlightening.


12 posted on 03/27/2023 7:47:00 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: americas.best.days...

“...placed in residential treatment to finish is FAPE (free, appropriate public education). But they never want to spend the money. He was 17, wouldn’t have taken much.”


“they never want to spend the money” is your answer right there. Although assuming he had an IEP (and I’ll bet he did) they have to educate him until the day before his 22nd birthday.

To quote Dickens, “The law is an ass”.


13 posted on 03/27/2023 7:47:35 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Twotone

This is an incident that shows just how seriously the far-left, Dung Beetle, turd rollers really belived the rhetoric of school shootings they like to spew. All they want is to do disarm law-abiding Amerericans and lock up the guns. The bass turds who pull the trigger get probation. If you have any type of law enforcement or criminal justice background, one of the first things you learn is probation is a FRIGGIN’ “JUDICIAL” JOKE! Probation didn’t stop him from getting a firearm and shooting people. Guns don’t kill people. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.


14 posted on 03/27/2023 7:47:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Gun violence" ISN'T the problem idiots. People violence is the problem. Embrace the suck!)
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To: hanamizu

“Lyle was charged with a felony but the court dropped the charge...”

He received the “abused black child” charge “discount”.

The judge that allowed that should be taken off the bench.


15 posted on 03/27/2023 7:51:28 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: hanamizu

While the quote is used in Dickens’ novel, “Oliver Twist”, it is much older than that by a couple of centuries, and even then it’s origin is in dispute..............

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-law-is-an-ass.html


16 posted on 03/27/2023 7:53:25 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

So often the same faces - always with a history - the natural lifstyle of so many in his culture.


17 posted on 03/27/2023 8:04:36 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: moovova

Exactly. See Martin, Trayvon.

They want to suppress the stories and numbers of black criminality.


18 posted on 03/27/2023 8:05:43 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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"Both the Denver Public School District and the Cherry Creek School District declined to provide details about Lyle’s safety plan..."

Especially since there are probably major lawsuits the administrators of these schools will be facing.

19 posted on 03/27/2023 8:06:28 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Twotone

If only there had seen a warning sign....


20 posted on 03/27/2023 8:08:23 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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