DENVER – A 14-year-old boy shot and critically injured by a classmate at Evergreen High School confronted the shooter during the attack before any alarms or lockdown procedures had started, his family said in a statement released by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday.
The boy, whose name has not been made public, is one of the two students shot by a 16-year-old classmate who attacked the school on Sept. 10 before turning his gun on himself.
The second victim, 18-year-old Matthew Silverstone, also confronted the shooter and wrestled with him outside of the school before the teen shot him, his family said last week…