New school shooting horror near Columbine

A teenager was killed and eight students injured after two students opened fire at a school in Denver, Colorado.

Douglas County S heriff Tony Spurlock said the pair walked into the STEM School Highlands Ranch and began shooting students in two classrooms.

Within minutes, deputies at a nearby sheriff ’s department substation entered the school and arrested the two suspects after a struggle.

“As officers were arriving at the school, they could still hear gunshots,” Douglas County Undersheriff Holly NicholsonKluth said.

Authorities have identified one of the suspects as 18-year- old Devon Erickson. Mr Spurlock said the second suspect is ajuvenile and that both attended the school and neither were previously known to authorities.

The shooting comes nearly three weeks after neighbouring Little ton marked the grim 20 th anniversary of the Columbine school massacre that killed 13 people.