20-year-old sentenced for deadly Colorado school shooting

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FILE - In this May 15, 2019, record photo, Devon Erickson appears successful tribunal astatine the Douglas County Courthouse successful Castle Rock, Colo. Erickson a erstwhile precocious schoolhouse pupil convicted of archetypal grade execution and different charges for a 2019 shooting onslaught wrong a suburban Denver precocious schoolhouse that killed 1 pupil and injured 8 others is acceptable to beryllium sentenced to mandatory beingness successful situation without parole connected Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. (Joe Amon/The Denver Post via AP, Pool, File)

Posted at 10:07 PM, Sep 17, 2021

and past updated 2021-09-17 23:08:06-04

DENVER (AP) — A erstwhile precocious schoolhouse pupil convicted of sidesplitting a teen and injuring 8 others astatine a Denver-area schoolhouse successful 2019 has been sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole.

Devon Erickson was sentenced Friday aft victims and families gave affectional grounds astir the lasting trauma from the shooting astatine STEM School Highlands Ranch.

Erickson, present 20, was convicted of partnering with different pupil successful the onslaught connected a schoolroom of precocious schoolhouse seniors watching a movie.

Because helium was 18 astatine the clip of the shooting, Erickson faced a mandatory sentence.

One erstwhile pupil who helped halt the onslaught said Erickson killed their classmate and “didn’t care.”

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