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   >> That poor misguided black child   
      
   One day after two faculty members were shot and wounded by a student at a   
   Denver high school, the local school board voted unanimously to   
   temporarily suspend its nearly two-year-old ban on armed guards and police   
   officers in its schools.   
      
   “Based on the emergency situation presented by the events of March 22,   
   2023, the Board of Education will hereby suspend (the ban on armed   
   officers) through June 30, 2023,” stated the motion approved by the board   
   Thursday.   
      
   School district Superintendent Alex Marrero said Wednesday that he was   
   “committed” to having two armed police officers stationed at East High   
   School during school hours through the end of the academic year regardless   
   of the official policy.   
      
   “I am willing to accept the consequences of my actions,” Marrero said in a   
   letter to the board. He was present at Thursday’s board vote, but did not   
   speak at the meeting.   
      
   “Today was my fourth visit to Denver Health’s Intensive Care Unit due to   
   victims of gun violence,” Marrero said in a letter to the Board of   
   Education. “These events should not have happened on my watch or this   
   Board’s Watch.”   
      
   The alleged gunman, 17-year-old Austin Lyle, fled East High School   
   Wednesday after the shooting, police said, and his body was found   
   Wednesday night in Park County. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot   
   wound, the coroner’s office said Thursday.   
      
   The victims of Wednesday’s shooting are Eric Sinclair and Jerald Mason,   
   Denver Public Schools spokesperson Rachel Childress confirmed to CNN.   
      
   Sinclair is the school’s dean of culture and Mason is a restorative   
   practice coordinator in the dean’s office, according to the school’s   
   website.   
      
   One staff member was in critical condition, while the other suffered   
   serious injuries and was stable, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said   
   Wednesday.   
      
   Lyle’s body was found around 8:15 p.m., after an hourslong, multi-agency   
   manhunt, near a red Volvo SUV sought by law enforcement, Park County   
   Sheriff Tom McGraw said during a news conference, telling apprehensive   
   nearby residents an earlier shelter-in-place alert had been lifted.   
      
   Lyle was identified as the suspect in the shooting by Denver police   
   officials, who said he was under a school safety plan requiring him to   
   undergo daily pat down searches upon entering the school. During   
   Wednesday’s search, a handgun was retrieved and several shots were fired   
   in an office area in the front of the school, Thomas said, away from other   
   students and staff.   
      
   The police chief declined to say why the suspect was on that plan.   
      
   Denver Mayor Michael Hancock indicated he wants school resource officers   
   back in all schools.   
      
   “Removing them was a mistake,” he said in a statement on Twitter, “and we   
   must move swiftly to correct it.”   
      
   The board on Thursday emphasized that the superintendent needed to develop   
   a new safety plan, but also that the district does not have enough money   
   for additional armed security indefinitely.   
      
   The board directed Marrero to reach out to Hancock in an effort to   
   “externally fund as many as two armed police officers and as many as two   
   additional mental health professionals” in every Denver high school for   
   the remainder of the school year.   
      
   The district’s policy banning armed security at schools was adopted as   
   part of a larger plan undertaken by the board of education in the summer   
   of 2020, which said it wanted to “transition” school resource officers   
   from Denver campuses, citing studies that showed “Black and Brown students   
   arrested for minor school infractions are more likely to end up in the   
   adult criminal system, entrenching the school-to-prison pipelines.”   
      
   That came amid a broader movement in some communities to push police out   
   of schools after the police murder of George Floyd. Proponents of those   
   efforts said the presence of officers in schools criminalized Black and   
   Latino students.   
      
   East High will close for the remainder of the week following the shooting,   
   Marrero said during a news conference Wednesday.   
      
   Sheriff McGraw described the manhunt as “quite intense,” adding agencies   
   involved included the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and   
   Explosives.   
      
      
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