EVERGREEN — He was quiet and mostly kept to himself, apart from occasionally asking a classmate for a pencil or exchanging a few words in a quick conversation.

That’s how Owen Peterson described his former classmate, Desmond Holly, the 16-year-old suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at Evergreen High School who Owen sat side by side with during their fifth-period jewelry-making class this school year.

Desmond died Wednesday night at St. Anthony Hospital after wounding two other students and shooting himself.

Owen, a sophomore, said he didn’t get to know Desmond well and didn’t consider him a friend, but he also never pegged Desmond as someone he should eye warily.

“He just seemed like a normal, everyday kid that was really shy and wouldn’t talk to us that much,” Owen, 15, told The Color

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