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Kendrick Castillo, a young man of Hispanic origin and who was only 3 days away from graduating from college, died Tuesday after trying to arrest one of the two subjects who assaulted STEM Highlands Ranch in Denver, Colorado.
The 18-year-old boy was shot in the chest as he and his friend Brendan Bialy pounced on the alleged assailant Devon Erickson to try to stop his attack. Castillo died the same Tuesday afternoon as a result of his injuries.
“[The attacker] entered through one side of the room where we also have a door. He opened the door, entered as if to go to his seat, and then suddenly returned to the door to close it. The last thing I knew was that he took out a gun and told us not to move, "explained Niu Giasolli, Castillo's partner, to the Today (NBC) program.
"That's when Kendrick lunged at him and he shot Kendrick, that gave us all time to hide under our desks, to find a safe place and to run around the room to escape," he concluded.
In total, the attack, registered towards the last hours of the school shift, left 7 people injured, two of them seriously, according to local media.
Denver police confirmed the arrest of 18-year-old Erickson and another young man on suspicion of perpetrating the attack, which occurred in different parts of the school where classes are taught from kindergarten to grade 12.
Castillo was passionate about technology and belonged to the school's robotics team, a multi-award winner, and enrolled for college at Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, Colorado.
Castillo and Bialy's brave actions have not gone unnoticed and are already considered heroes. "We are going to hear about the heroic actions that took place [here]," Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said at a news conference Wednesday, confirming that a student had been shot when "throwing himself" at one of the suspects.
John Castillo, father of the deceased, told the Denver Post that the family is devastated and was not surprised that his son sacrificed himself for the others. "I wish he had hidden, but he was not like that," he said. "It was to protect people, to help."
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