Suspect in Colorado shooting dead and two students injured

Emergency officials at the scene at high school in suburban Denver

Satellite image of Arapahoe High School in Centennial, near Denver, where a shooting took place today. Image: Google Maps
Satellite image of Arapahoe High School in Centennial, near Denver, where a shooting took place today. Image: Google Maps

A suspect in a high school shooting in Colorado has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Arapahoe county sheriff Grayson Robinson said the gunman was a student at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, near Denver.

Another student was wounded when he confronted the armed student and was shot.

Officers found another injured student while securing the school.

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The school is about eight miles east of Columbine High School in Littleton, where two teenage shooters killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves in 1999.

A hospital spokesman said one of the injured students was in a critical condition.

Jason Dunkel, spokesman for Littleton Adventist Hospital, said the student was in surgery.

AP