~ FOCUS PAGE PUBLISHED: Platte Canyon HS Tragedy

Dear Readers,

I have prepared a special Focus Page related to the Platte Canyon High School Tragedy. The page includes an updated list of media articles, video coverage links, audio coverage links, still photo & slideshow links, as well as all the information originally published in the original post here at Liberty Rocks Blog. The page also includes information on the family’s wishes and the Emily Keyes “I love U guys” memorial fund information which you will find below.

You can access the special focus page at the following link: FOCUS PAGE: THE PLATTE CANYON HS TRAGEDY

EMILY KEYES MEMORIAL INFORMATION:

 

 

“The family would like to thank the community for their phenomenal support.”
– The Keyes Family

 

The Keyes family also asks that those who wish to do something in Emily’s honor engage in “Random Acts of Kindness” in her memory.

 

Through a family friend, Louis Gonzalez, the family said, “In memory of Emily, we would like everybody to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends, to your neighbors, to your fellow students. That’s exactly what Emily would have wanted.”

– “Keyes Family Asks for Random Acts of Kindness” – The Rocky Mountain News

 

COMMUNITY GATHERING & CANDLELIGHT VIGIL:

A community gathering and candlelight vigil with music has been set for Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006, at 5 p.m. at the National Farmers Union Education Center, 618 County Road 68, Bailey.

 

MEMORIAL FUND INFORMATION:

Donations can be made to the “I love U guys” Emily Keyes Memorial Fund at Wells Fargo Banks and Citywide Banks. (http://www.citywidebanks.com) For more information on the fund call; 303-465-6743.

The “I love U guys” fund is named in memory of the last text message that Emily sent to her parents.

There is also an Emily Keyes Memorial Fund at Peak National Bank.

 

FLOWERS & OTHER ITEMS:

Items such as flowers will be accepted at the Deer Creek Realty building located at 4 River Drive, Bailey, CO 80421

Most of the above information was obtained from the Park County Website – http://www.parkco.us Please visit the Park County website for updated community information.

Thank you to Pat’s Web Graphics for the Flower Graphics in this post:

~ SPECIAL REPORT: Tragedy at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado

 

NOTE: – 9/30/06 – 5:20p.m. – I have changed the picture of Emily featured to the one distributed by her family on the Park County Colorado website. I have also included a link to the press release from Park County, also obtained at the above mentioned website. Other update notes have been moved to the bottom of the page. I also repaired on media article link, and will be adding more article links today. Still working on the “Focus Page”.

UPDATED OVERVIEW: 9/28/2006

 

At approximately 11:30am, on Wednesday September 27, 2006, 53 year-old Duane R. Morrison entered Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado armed with a 9mm handgun. He was dressed in a black “hoodie” and was carrying a camoflage backpack. After being seen around the school by students, and talking with a few of them, he proceeded to enter Mrs. Smith’s College Prep English Classroom. He pulled his gun and fired at least one shot. He then proceeded to line the kids up at the blackboard, and one by one chose who would be allowed to leave, allegedly tapping them with his gun as he made his decisions. He kept a total of six female students as hostages, and then proceeded to call 9-11 himself, to alert authorities of the his plans. He told them he was armed with an explosive device beside the gun he possessed.