"He just loved people very much": a student in a school in Colorado died, saving classmates from the shooter

After one of shooters at school STEM School Highlands Ranch took out a gun, Kendrick Castillo could not just stand by. He was surrounded by friends, whom he considered family, and they were all in danger.

Screenshot from CBS Denver video

Kendrick was killed after he rushed to the shooter, giving other students plenty of time to hide, writes CNN.

“I know what he did saved the lives of others and I thank God for that. I love him. He is a hero and will always remain one. He just loved people very much,” said the victim's father, John Castillo.

18-year-old guy watched the film "Princess Bride" in the class of British literature, when his classmate pulled out a gun, demanding that no one move. After Kendrick rushed to the shooter, three other students also grabbed the offender, trying to bring him under control. At this time, the rest of the class left the room and was able to escape.

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Kendrick was the only child in the family, but his friends, including members of the school robotics team, were, according to his father, like his brothers and sisters for his son. They arranged to exchange holiday gifts at Kendrick's house, share toys as a child, and pay for movie tickets for each other if someone did not have enough money.

“Selfless, that’s what my son was, and it killed him, but he saved others,” Castillo said.

Kendrick grew up in a bilingual family in the Denver suburb, the guy spoke English and Spanish. At first he attended a Catholic school, and also spent time on fishing and hiking with his late grandfather, who was in the marines.

“Kendrick was proud of him, proud that his grandfather was a hero. Part of me knows that Kendrick wanted to live on that legacy,” Castillo said.

The teenager was holding a flag with which the grandfather’s coffin had once been draped.

“He loved patriotism. We are Hispanic by origin, but we love America to the core,” Castillo admitted.

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Castillo and his wife Maria were not surprised to learn that their son had rushed into danger. They raised him as a responsible and "good person."

“This was an unusual child. He was unusual,” his father noted.

Shortly after the shooting, Castillo and his wife, Maria, desperately tried to reach Kendrick by mobile phone. Initially, they thought that their son could have been hurt, but their son’s lack of response to calls and messages increased their anxiety.

One of Kendrick's friends sent a message to the boy’s father, which said that Kendrick rushed to the shooter, but he did not know what happened to Kendrick. They watched as other students got out of the yellow school buses and reunited with their parents, and their son was not.

“I couldn’t believe this happened to my son,” Castillo said.

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The couple found out that Kendrick was killed when they went to the hospital to look for him. Officials told them that his body was still in the classroom. When they waited outside the school for the opportunity to pick up Kendrick's body, the students approached them and said that their lost son was a hero.

Castillo and his wife mourn their son and want his classmates to be rehabilitated after the shooting, go to college and create loving families.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• Shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch began around 14: 00 7 May. Initially 8 injured reported. Later it turned out that one student of the institution was killed.
• Police arrest two suspects: 18-year-old Devon Erickson, as well as a minor shooter, whose name is not disclosed.

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