2006 Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis
The
Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis was a hostage taking and shooting at
Platte Canyon High School in
Bailey, Colorado, on September 27, 2006. The gunman, 53-year-old Duane Roger Morrison, took seven female students hostage and sexually assaulted them, later releasing four. When police broke open the classroom's door with explosives, Morrison opened fire with a
semi-automatic pistol before shooting hostage Emily Keyes in the head. The other remaining hostages escaped unharmed, and
paramedics confirmed that Morrison had committed suicide shortly before police were able to enter the classroom. Keyes was pronounced dead at 4:32 p.m.
MDT (23:32
UTC) at Saint Anthony's Hospital in
Denver, Colorado, after undergoing emergency surgery.
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