{"id":37807,"date":"2025-09-11T19:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=37807"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:59:59","slug":"desmond-holly-16-idd-as-evergreen-high-school-shooter-day-after-radicalized-gunman-shot-2-colorado-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=37807","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Holly, 16, ID\u2019d as Evergreen High School shooter day after \u2018radicalized\u2019 gunman shot 2 Colorado students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A teen shooter who wounded two fellow students when he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/10\/us-news\/shooting-at-colorado-high-school-leaves-at-least-2-students-wounded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opened fire at a Colorado high school<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday was only 16 years old \u2014 and \u201cradicalized by an extremist network,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Holly was identified as the disturbed teen gunman who caused havoc at Evergreen High School, about 30 miles west of Denver, before he turned the gun on himself and later died at the hospital, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Holly used a revolver to start shooting outside the high school, though some of the shots appeared to reach inside the building, the local sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"37086753\"><\/button><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37086753\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/evergreen-high-school-shooter-identified-111167280.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/evergreen-high-school-shooter-identified-111167280.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/law-enforcement-emergency-personnel-respond-111107967.jpg?resize=50,33&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/law-enforcement-emergency-personnel-respond-111107967.jpg?resize=150,100&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w\" alt=\"Emergency vehicles at the scene of a high school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado.\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" data-modal-image=\"37086676\" \/><figcaption>Law enforcement and emergency personnel respond to a shooting at Evergreen High School.<span class=\"credit\"><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span>\u201cHe was radicalized by some extremist network,\u201d a Jefferson County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson said during a press conference,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/11\/us\/colorado-high-school-shooter-identified.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--explore-more inline-module--more--thirds\" data-source-unit=\"Explore More - Tag\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<p>Further details about the extremist network were not divulged Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The two injured students remain in critical condition, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story. Please check back for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A teen shooter who wounded two fellow students when he\u00a0opened fire at a Colorado high school\u00a0Wednesday was only 16 years old \u2014 and \u201cradicalized by an extremist network,\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37808,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807\/revisions\/37808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}