A student named Kendrick Castillo was killed after two people believed to be students had opened fire inside two classrooms at STEM School Highlands Ranch, outside of Denver.
If you haven’t seen it, 12-year-old Nate Holley appeared with his father Steve on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin hours later to talk about what he saw. What he then did was proceed to give one of the most poised and in-depth on-the-scene reports you’ll ever hear, particularly considering his age.
“It was really chaotic,” Holley said. “Most of the kids didn’t know what to do.”
He said he froze as gunshots shattered a window. A siren rang and someone in his classroom cracked a joke. His teacher shushed the student and moved them behind a desk and then to the closet.
“I had my hand on a metal baseball bat just in case,” Holley told Baldwin. “‘Cause I was gonna go down fighting if I was gonna go down.”
WATCH:
A TV news correspondent gig may be in his future.
In all seriousness, suburban Denver has become a region was has experienced one too many mass shootings. However, today the community most certainly feels some sort of combination of grief and gratitude. Yes one student was horrifically killed, and more injured, but it really could have been far worse.