Governor of Colorado Jared Polis According to the Associated Press, Friday said that two Aurora high school student shootings this week showed that action must be taken to curb youth violence.
On Monday, six students were shot dead in a park near their school. The second incident occurred on Friday, when three students were shot in the parking lot of their high school.
aurora police Department said Twitter The students who were shot outside Hinckley High School on Friday were taken to the hospital. No other details are immediately available.
KCNC-TV in Denver obtained cell phone footage of the shooting, which the station said was taken from a car in the parking lot at the time of the shooting. A young man in the car could be heard saying “Oh, no. No, no, no,” and squatted down to avoid shooting.
Polis said he is considering the injured who are currently being treated in the hospital.
“As a state, we must redouble our efforts in public safety,” Polis said, adding, “With the two shootings in Aurora, we will refocus on youth violence.”
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Nearly two hours after the shooting on Friday, yellow criminal tape surrounded the parking lot, and anxious parents waited to be reunited with their children outside the high school campus.
When the students were allowed to leave the building, TV footage showed them walking peacefully and hugging their parents in the parking lot on the other side of the school, where the victim was shot.
In Monday’s shooting, six students from Aurora Central High School were the victims of a driving shooting. The police have not yet arrested anyone. The two schools are 3 miles (4.8 km) apart.
The victims of Monday’s shooting, boys and girls ranging in age from 14 to 18, are expected to survive, but police chief Vanessa Wilson said on Tuesday that two of them were “seriously” injured and needed long-term Recovery.
The police said that many cartridge cases fired with different guns were found at the scene of the shooting on Monday. It is possible that someone fired some bullets on foot. The police said they had found one of the two cars involved in the shooting.
Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said after Monday’s shooting that everyone should be angry about gun violence, which she called a public health crisis.
“Right now there are violent crises all over the country, so I think we all need to pay attention,” she said.
Andy Cross/Denver Post via The Associated Press
