The Douglas County community is keeping alive the memory of the Colorado 18-year-old who lost his life tackling a gunman at STEM School Highlands Ranch in 2019.
“We don’t want them to forget Kendrick, that he sacrificed everything,” said father John Castillo, “because we’ll never forget. We live it every day.”
It’s been more than five years since John and Maria Castillo’s only child died while protecting other students.
“For us it could have been a month or two ago. Time is really just absent in many ways,” said John Castillo.
But the day of the STEM School shooting is never far from their minds.
“I think when we see shootings in our nation like in Georgia it opens those wounds and takes us back to May 7 of 2019,” said John Castillo.
This week, they watched families of the King Soopers shooting victims give the same impact statements the Castillos once did.