‘It’s a School Shooting’: Heart-wrenching Texts Denver Students Sent Loved Ones

Officials guide students off a bus and into a recreation center where they were reunited with their parents after a shooting at a suburban Denver middle school in Highlands Ranch, Colo., on May 7, 2019. David Zalubowski/AP Photo

Reports have emerged of heartwrenching text messages terrified students at a Colorado school sent to friends and family as two gunmen went on a shooting spree that killed one and wounded eight.

An eighth-grader who was inside STEM School Highlands Ranch during Tuesday’s shooting sent a series of texts to his mother, which she shared on Facebook.