The STEM School shooting in Colorado gave the media the usual chance to muddle information. The original reporting I found said that the casualties were comparatively low because law enforcement arrived on-scene in two minutes and subdued the assholes. By yesterday, we began hearing a story that differed somewhat: student Kendrick Castillo “rushed” one of the chumbuckets.

This morning…

No thought for their own safety: Hero students disarm gunman
The three students who disarmed a gunman in a Colorado school shooting leapt up from their desks without a word and with no thought for their own safety when they spotted the gun, recounted one of the young men.
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Authorities said the actions of Castillo, Bialy and Joshua Jones minimized the bloodshed from Tuesday’s attack at the school south of Denver that wounded eight students along with killing the 18-year-old Castillo.

Kendrick Castillo

Brendan Bialy

Joshua Jones

These young men rushed an active shooter, and disarmed him, at the cost of one of their own dead and one wounded. Not police.

Thank you, gentlemen.

As for the media… So far, the younger attacker has been reported as male, female, male identifying as (sometimes “transitioning to”) female, and female identifying as (or transitioning to) male. I’m not sure which is more confused: chum or reporters.

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