Colorado Shooting: Sixth-Grader Prepared to ‘Go Down Fighting’ Armed Himself With Baseball Bat

A police officer hugs his children after they were evacuated to the Recreation Center at Northridge after at least seven students were injured during a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, on May 7, 2019. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

A 12-year-old student at the Colorado school where gunmen killed one and wounded eight described the tense moment the shooters approached his classroom while he armed himself and prepared to “go down fighting.”

Sixth-grader Nate Holley told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin that he was in a classroom at STEM School Highlands Ranch on Tuesday, May 7, when gunfire broke out.