{"id":2444335,"date":"2019-05-17T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=306078"},"modified":"2019-05-17T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:05:34","slug":"heroism-during-stem-school-shooting-praised-but-some-worry-coverage-will-push-kids-to-put-themselves-in-harms-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/heroism-during-stem-school-shooting-praised-but-some-worry-coverage-will-push-kids-to-put-themselves-in-harms-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroism during STEM School shooting praised, but some worry coverage will push kids to put themselves in harm\u2019s way"},"content":{"rendered":"
Josh Jones, center, arrives on crutches at the Falls Events Center with his parents David, left, and Lorie right, before speaking to the media for the first time since he was wounded attempting to stop a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019. Jones, along with fellow students Brendan Bialy and Kendrick Castillo, helped disarm one of two gunmen at the school. Kendrick Castillo was killed and Josh Jones was shot twice in his left leg.<\/strong>
Helen H. Richardson
The Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When two teenagers began firing on their classmates at STEM School Highlands Ranch last week, at least three students charged one of the suspects \u2014 a decision that cost one of the teens his life.<\/p>\n

Kendrick Castillo\u2019s death<\/a> was the second within a week involving a student who tackled a perpetrator of a school shooting. Eight days earlier, Riley Howell was killed charging the gunman in a shooting at UNC Charlotte in North Carolina.<\/a><\/p>\n

The actions by these students who took down shooters<\/a> are heralded as heroic and credited for preventing further deaths. But their stories also have drawn concern from psychologists who worry that such narratives will place children and teens at further risk by sending the message they must act like a \u201csuperman or (super)woman\u201d during mass shootings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want any kid, certainly some of the younger kids, thinking this is what they have to do,\u201d said Dr. Steven Berkowitz, a visiting professor in psychiatry at the University of Colorado\u2019s Anschutz Medical Campus.<\/p>\n

Read the full story from The Denver Post.<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Josh Jones, center, arrives on crutches at the Falls Events Center with his parents David, left, and Lorie right, before speaking to the media for the first time since he was wounded attempting to stop a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019. Jones, along with fellow students Brendan Bialy and Kendrick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 10:11:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}