05.08.19

McConnell Statement on the Highlands Ranch, Colorado School Attack

‘I know the entire Senate joins me in holding the victims of yesterday’s shooting, their families, and their entire community in our prayers today. And our gratitude is with the first responders of Douglas County, whose swift action to engage the shooters saved untold lives.’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the shooting that took place yesterday afternoon in Highlands Ranch, Colorado:

“I am saddened to have to begin my remarks this morning by acknowledging yet another senseless act of school violence in America. Less than a month after the 20th anniversary of the tragic shooting at Columbine High School, another Colorado community was shattered yesterday afternoon.

“Just miles away at the STEM School Highlands Ranch, one student has been killed, eight others have been wounded, and many more young lives were changed forever at the hands of two of their fellow students. I know the entire Senate joins me in holding the victims of yesterday’s shooting, their families, and their entire community in our prayers today. And our gratitude is with the first responders of Douglas County, whose swift action to engage the shooters saved untold lives.”

 

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