Respect for this hero
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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IIRC he was a huge star wars fan, and because of his actions George Lucas wrote him into the official canon as a jedi
After all these years, how is it that we haven’t figured out how to protect kids in schools? What are we missing?
I only hope in this situation I would do the same and not freeze in fear
This made me think that there was a shooting recently that I didn’t know about…
Sadly, he isn’t a hero, but a martyr… He shouldn’t have needed to give his life to save others.
He was selfless and deserves to be remembered, but the gun epidemic in this country is at a level that shouldn’t exist.
We need to do something about it. We need to enact stricter gun control laws and work to improve the socioeconomic standards of this country.
Only then can we prevent acts like this from happening again and again.
Tired of hearing about kids dying like soldiers
All the respect. Children should mean more than guns. Shame on this country.
Just imagine if schools were full of CEO’s. I’d bet the gun problem would get solved pretty quick.
May 7, 2019 – [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_School_Highlands_Ranch_shooting)
… [1 of 2 shooters] allegedly pulled out a gun and yelled, “nobody move”. Kendrick Ray Castillo jumped on him and was fatally shot in the chest. [The shooter] was then subdued and disarmed by two other students.
Heartbreaking.
No child should have to do that.
[A street name was just changed in his honor.](https://www.douglas.co.us/honoring-the-kendrick-castillo-way/)
/r/OrphanCrushingMachine
Dude was also a victim of a failed system.
He died an unnecessary death just like many other kids because Americans are too coward to do anything about gun violence
What’s interesting is kids like this die and people in the United States are unwilling to do anything about it.
It is so sad that the graveyard is full of heroes 😕
This happened back in 2019. I was a senior at a nearby high school. Before they released Kendrick’s name, we knew the demographics of the deceased – 17 year old male – and I remember panicking because I didn’t know if a coworker/acquaintance was alive who fit that profile. He was okay, physically at least, though this event messed him up. My school was locked down during the shooting, and I distinctly recall that in the aftermath the community came together to mourn and celebrate Kendrick. A lot of those efforts were driven by the students of STEM.
FYI, this area is about 15-20 minutes away from Columbine and the ghost of that event very much haunts the area. The STEM shooting wasn’t the only time schools were shut down for a shooting or shooting-related threat that year. Not too far is also Arapahoe High School, where Claire Davis died in a shooting back in 2013. We were locked down for that one too. I remember being in middle school while she was on life support, and everyone was trying to get One Direction to visit her. They ended up sending a video. In 2017 another high school no more than 15 minutes away from STEM and very close to me had two students arrested for planning a Columbine-style plot, though luckily they were caught before anything happened.
After Parkland, my high school informed us that when a fire alarm went off, we were to stay in our classrooms until someone came over a loudspeaker and told us it was safe to evacuate. It’s so fucked up.
This isn’t “interesting as fuck” as much as infuriating as hell. Rest in peace Kendrick and Claire, you deserved better. Every student in this country deserves better.
I’m tired of kids having to die because those in power have failed them
Rest in power
Another martyr for the 2nd amendment
Respect indeed .
Nice picture, thanks for sharing!
Want to honor him? Vote for candidates that support gun control.
Respect for his bravery.
I will remember his name now. This should never have to happen.
Like Sutherlan Springs?
Texas needs more guns.” – Guv’nuh Greg Abbott
👑
R.I.P. Super Hero
God Bless Kendrick Castillo & God Bless his family. 🙏🙏🙏
Not quite the same but this give simmilar vibes to r/OrphanCrushingMachine .
Why are we in a world where civillians even need to do this.
And worse, if you change the name you find nearly the same story for every year you can think of.
Kendrick Castillo deserves our repect, and the best way to show respect is probably to help prevent situations like this from happening again.
I drive by his sign on the c470 highway in south Denver. Sad
Legend. This happened in our town. The city named the stretch of highway for him. So sad
Hero
They recently renamed a street here in Colorado after this man, definitely deserved if I say so myself.
His name is Kendrick Castillo.
They renamed an entire boulevard after him, here in Colorado.
All the respect.
I was there in the building during this shooting in the engineering lab. Trauma aside it’s sad to see that keep happening even 5.5 years later.
We were on the robotics team together. I still miss him
He shouldn’t have had to have been a hero, he should’ve just been a kid. How many children have to die before American law markers get off the NRAs dick.
https://tridentshield.net/
Holy cow this company’s website is a rollercoaster ride of emotion. Wtf
I wasn’t in that school but I was in robotics and we learned his story. He was so keen on helping the people who where new to it he would duck tape oven mitts to his hands so he wouldn’t be able to do any of the work and teach the freshmen how to do it. He died saving people a hero that we shouldn’t have needed
FIRST published a tribute video for him on their official channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUPHOYt58SU
Colorado FIRST now hosts a Kendrick Castillo memorial offseason tournament each year. https://coloradofirst.org/frc/kcmt/
Let’s honor the children that sacrificed their lives for my guns. Jesus would be so proud of America
Honestly we should take a note from the Japanese. Technically firearms are legal there but the process to actually own and maintain ownership is extremely restrictive requiring psyche evaluations, thorough background checks, safety courses, written exams, interviews with both you, family and neighbors, police inspect your firearm once a year, you must also register it with police along with how much ammunition you have and were you store it and even then your gun license and gun are tied together and have to be renewed every 3 years.
Theres a reason Japans gun violence statistics are so low. 0.08 per 100,000 people compared to Americas 10.89 per 100,000 and most is linked to organized crime.