EVERGREEN

EVERGREEN — At first, it looked like the boys were wrestling.

But as Delmer Martinez approached in his work van, he could see that one of the two teenagers entangled at an intersection near Evergreen High School was holding a gun.

The armed boy waved his weapon around, pointing it in all directions, and then suddenly fired a shot into what Martinez thinks was the other boy’s rib area.

The wounded teen collapsed. The boy with the gun began to walk away nonchalantly, up a road leading to the school.

That’s when law enforcement started pursuing the armed teen. A sheriff’s deputy repeatedly shouted at him to drop the gun. Martinez saw the boy open a vest and reload the firearm.

Then, another shot.

The Colorado Sun interviewed survivors and witnesses, and pieced together infor

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