Tag: Luis Garcia
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Respite for a weary city: First Day of Hope aims for community healing after East High shooting
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Less than a week after two East High School administrators were shot by a student who later took his own life, there are signs that the Denver community is rallying from its grief. Fourteen churches and hundreds of people gathered at Church in the City-Beth…
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East High School students rally at Capitol for second straight day to press for gun bills’ passage
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hundreds of Denver East High School students inundated Colorado’s Capitol building for a second straight day Friday to press legislators to enact changes to gun laws in the wake of a second shooting involving a student in as many months. Teachers, parents and students from…
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‘Something needs to change’: East High students, parents, staff flood state capitol to demand safer schools
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On Thursday following the shooting at East High School, students, staff and parents from schools across Denver gathered outside the Colorado Capitol. Hundreds of people swarmed the doors into the capitol toting t-shirts demanding action or showing the East High School logo and signs with…
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‘Scared, angry, tired of this’: East High School students weary as another shooting rocks school
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Students at Denver East High School are processing grief, anger and fear on Wednesday after another shooting has sent a shockwave through the school, just a few weeks after they marched to the Capitol to plead for action from legislators. They had organized the rally earlier in March after Luis Garcia, a student on the…