Sheriff: Suspect in Colorado shootings wasn’t asked to leave after entering school earlier

Sheriff: Suspect entered, left school on his own

LITTLETON, Colo. — The man charged with shooting and wounding two students outside a suburban Denver school had entered and left the building on his own earlier that day, seemingly without drawing much suspicion.

Jefferson County sheriff investigators say 32-year-old Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood signed in at a reception desk before the Tuesday shootings and indicated he was a former student. The sheriff’s department says he was never asked to leave the building.

It’s not clear when he did leave. School officials say Eastwood first entered the building at about noon, some three hours before the shootings. A math teacher and other staff helped break up the 3 p.m. shooting and are being praised as heroes.

One of the wounded students was treated and released. The mother of the other victim says he’s “doing well” in a hospital.