The suspect, now 20, accused of killing a classmate at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado faces life in prison.
Friends and community members left flowers, stuffed animals, and cans of Coca-Cola outside STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado in honor of Kendrick Castillo, who was killed trying to thwart a May 7, 2019, shooting at the school. (Amanda Pampuro / CNS)
(CN) — A 12-person jury began deliberations Monday on more than 40 felony charges, including first-degree murder, levied against a Colorado man accused of committing a mass shooting at his high school in 2019.
Devon Erickson, 20, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole since Colorado repealed the death penalty in 2020.