Transgender teen charged in school shooting will be tried as an adult
DENVER - A transgender teenager who told police that he and a friend opened fire at a suburban Denver high school to exact revenge on classmates who bullied him should be tried on murder charges as an adult, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
Alec McKinney, 16, was ordered along with Devon Erickson, 19, to stand trial on first-degree murder, attempted murder and weapons charges in the May 7 shooting rampage at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, in which one student was killed and eight others wounded.
McKinney, who was born female but identifies as male, told police later that he was in a “pre-op transitioning phase” and was seeking revenge on students who picked on him for being transgender. In issuing a seven-page ruling on Wednesday, Douglas County District Judge Jeffrey Holmes acknowledged that the defendant had suffered “serious trauma,” but declined to move the case.
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