The 16-year-old Evergreen High School shooter physically grappled with one of his victims before shooting the teenager at an intersection behind the school, then shot himself as law enforcement closed in, a man who witnessed the encounter told The Denver Post on Tuesday.

Delmer Martinez, who was in Evergreen for a roofing job, was on his lunch break Wednesday and passing by the high school’s property when he saw two boys who appeared to be fighting near Buffalo Park Road and South Olive Road, he said. He slowed down, then stopped and watched.

“I saw the guy, some teen, come out of a ditch, one where water comes out, and he pulled another boy, like by the chest, had him by the chest and threw him against the street and fired a shot,” Martinez said, speaking in Spanish.

“And when he shot

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