Drive-by shooting near Colorado high school leaves 6 teens injured

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published 16 November 2021

A drive-by shooting Monday afternoon in Aurora, Colorado, left six high school students injured.

The victims are students at Aurora Central High School, ranging in age from 14 to 18. All are in stable condition at Children's Hospital Colorado and expected to survive. The shooting took place near Aurora Central High School while classes were in session, and Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said an on-campus police officer who rushed to the scene saved the life of a victim by applying a tourniquet.

The community should be "outraged" by the shooting, Wilson said, and she called on anyone who might have information or cell phone video showing the incident to contact law enforcement. Parent Evette Mitchell, whose 15-year-old son attends Aurora Central High School, told The Associated Press that another shooting recently occurred near the campus, involving three teenagers. There aren't many affordable activities for young people in the area, she said, and that's a problem.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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