EVERGREEN — The first 911 call came at 12:24 p.m. Wednesday. Then the floodgates opened, as students — either running from Evergreen High School or hunkering down in classrooms behind locked doors — phoned for help.

Matthew Silverstone, 18, one of the two students shot at Evergreen High School. (Photo courtesy of Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office)

Kai Taylor, a 15-year-old sophomore, was eating lunch with friends outside the school in the Jefferson County foothills when he got a frantic call from his twin sister asking if he was OK.

He said he laughed and told her he was fine, but she grew more serious, saying there was an active shooter at the school and she needed to know if he was hurt.

Kai’s heart dropped, he said. Then he saw his peers running.

Desmond Holl y, a 16-year-old st

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