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Prosecutors said Erickson partnered with fellow student Alec McKinney in the May 7, 2019, shooting. Since Erickson was 18 at the time of the attack, he faced a mandatory life sentence. “So what you do the rest of your life in prison, that's not on me. Erickson and McKinney concocted a “victim-hero” plan in which McKinney would either kill himself or be killed by Erickson, prosecutors said. Defense attorneys argued that Erickson was pressured into participating by McKinney, who testified against Erickson after pleading guilty last year.

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Devon Erickson was convicted of first degree murder and other charges for a 2019 shooting attack inside a suburban Denver high school that killed one student and injured eight others.

A former high school student convicted of killing a teenager and injuring eight others at a Denver-area school in 2019 has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

A former high school student convicted of first degree murder and other charges for a 2019 shooting attack inside a suburban Denver high school that killed one student and injured eight others is set to be sentenced to mandatory life in prison without parole on Friday. Devon Erickson was convicted in June of all 46 charges against him, including murder in the death of Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old senior hailed as a hero for trying to stop the attack on a classroom at STEM School Highlands Ranch south of Denver. Prosecutors said Erickson, now 20, partnered with fellow student Alec McKinney in the May 7, 2019, shooting.

Colorado school shooter convicted Devon Erickson, shown in a 2019 file photo, was convicted of first-degree murder on Tuesday. Erickson was facing two counts of first-degree murder, one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and 31 counts of attempted first-degree murder, KUSA reported. McKinney, who was born biologically female but identifies as male, pleaded guilty in February 2020 to 16 counts, including first-degree murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder after deliberation, according to ABC News. The most serious charges were tied to Castillo’s death, the Post reported. Their actual plan was for McKinney to die either by suicide or by Erickson shooting him, the newspaper reported.

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Their other possible scenario, in which fellow gunman Alec McKinney killed himself, was stymied after an armed security guard apprehended him, Brauchler said. Sol Pais, 18, traveled to Colorado, bought a gun and killed herself right before the 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting. About three weeks later, the May 7 shooting broke out at STEM School Highlands Ranch. McKinney had a motive to say what prosecutors wanted to hear because he reached a deal with them, she said. Because McKinney, at 16, was a juvenile at the time of the shooting, the deal gives him a chance at being paroled.

A prosecutor says a teen accused of killing a fellow student at his suburban Denver school in 2019 agreed to participate in the attack as long as it looked like he was pressured into participating.

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McKinney, 17, is the younger of the two students charged in the May 7, 2019, shooting. The minimum sentence for first-degree murder for a juvenile is life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years while the minimum sentence for an adult is life without the possibility of parole. Erickson, 19, has pleaded not guilty to all the same charges McKinney originally faced in the shooting. His lawyers have portrayed McKinney as the ringleader who pressured Erickson to participate. Colorado became the 22nd state to abolish the death penalty this year but Erickson could have still been eligible for it because the shooting happened before that law was passed.

FILE PHOTO: Police vehicles are stationed outside the school following the shooting at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, U.S., May 8, 2019. If convicted of the murder charge at trial, McKinney faces up to 40 years in prison. Had the case been sent to juvenile court, the maximum sentence was seven years. Since he was 18 at the time of the shooting, Erickson could face the death penalty or a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole if he is convicted of the murder. According to court documents, McKinney and Erickson armed themselves with three handguns and a 22-caliber rifle and took cocaine before carrying out the rampage.