Colorado authorities decline gun charges against parents of Evergreen High School shooter

Colorado authorities said Wednesday they volition not prosecute gun-related charges against the parents of a teen who wounded 2 students — some of whom sustained life-threatening injuries — during a shooting astatine a precocious schoolhouse past fall, citing insufficient evidence.

The parents of Desmond Holly, 16, were reviewed for imaginable charges tied to firearm entree oregon retention pursuing the Sept. 10 shooting astatine Evergreen High School, but investigators determined determination was nary ground to determination forward, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said.

Holly opened occurrence astatine the schoolhouse successful Evergreen, Colorado, located astir 30 miles westbound of Denver, earlier shooting himself. He aboriginal died from his injuries.

Investigators said the firearm utilized — a Smith & Wesson .38 Special revolver — was kept successful a locked weapon safe. Authorities said DNA investigating besides failed to nexus either genitor to the weapon.

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Flowers are near successful remembrance of those wounded successful a shooting astatine Evergreen High School successful Evergreen, Colorado, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Colleen Slevin)

According to investigators, the revolver was a household heirloom, and Holly did not person regular entree to the safe.

The sheriff’s bureau said the parents spoke with authorities instantly aft the shooting, and aboriginal provided written responses done ineligible counsel.

Students reunite with loved ones and classmates extracurricular Bergen Meadow Elementary School aft a shooting astatine Evergreen High School connected Sept. 10, 2025. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Officials said the shooting did not look to people circumstantial individuals and was carried retired astatine random.

The suspected shooter who fired a revolver astatine a precocious schoolhouse successful the Denver suburbs and injured 2 students has been identified arsenic a 16-year-old lad who had been radicalized by an "extremist network," instrumentality enforcement officials said. (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office; Getty Images)

Early successful the investigation, authorities said Holly whitethorn person been influenced by an unspecified extremist network. Investigators aboriginal concluded helium was not aligned with immoderate peculiar extremist ideology, but had developed an online fixation connected erstwhile schoolhouse shooters.

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The Anti-Defamation League’s Center connected Extremism reviewed Holly’s online enactment and reported that helium had engaged with convulsive online contented and referenced past wide shootings, including the 1999 Columbine High School attack. Evergreen High School is located successful the aforesaid region arsenic Columbine.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the family’s lawyer for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.