Shooting at suburban Denver school leaves 18-year-old male student dead, sheriff says

Officials guide students toward a recreation center where they were reunited with their parents after a shooting at a suburban Denver middle school not far from Columbine High School. Several people were wounded and two students were taken into custody, authorities said Tuesday, May 7, 2019. An 18-year-old male student was killed, a sheriff said.

A teacher raises her arms as she exits the scene of a shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019, in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Parents comfort each other at the scene of a shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019, in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Students and teachers raise their arms as they leave the scene of the shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019, in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Officers patrol the scene of a shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019, in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Armed police officers and others are seen outside STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter middle school in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch, Colo., after a shooting Tuesday, May 7, 2019.

Students are reunited with their parents after being evacuated to the Recreation Center at Northridge after a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019, in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Students and teachers leave the scene of the shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019, in Highlands Ranch, Colo.