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Devon Erickson, Colorado school shooting suspect, shared anti-Trump post on Facebook

The 18-year-old accused in the fatal shooting at a Colorado charter school shared social media posts that were critical of President Trump and Christians, but heaped praise on former President Barack Obama.

On what appears to be his Facebook page, Devon Erickson gave no indication of the carnage to come at STEM School Highlands Ranch.

The shaggy-haired teen filled his page with posts about the Denver Broncos, playing paintball and appearing in community plays like “Les Miserables” and “Legally Blonde The Musical.”

A day after Election Day in 2016, he shared a video from Seth Myers’ “Late Night” show blasting Trump and groused about Christians in another post two years earlier.

“You know what I hate? All these Christians who hate gays, yet in the bible, it says in Deuteronomy 17:12-13, if someone doesn’t do what their priest tells them to do, they are supposed to die,” Erickson wrote in May 2014. “It has plenty of crazy stuff like that. But all they get out of it is ‘ewwwwww gays.’”





Erickson also shared a pro-Obama post from Occupy Democrats in 2015.

“In just six years I nearly tripled the stock market, cut unemployment in half, ended two wars, cut the uninsured rate in half, brought gas down to $2.75, and cut the annual Bush deficit by two-thirds. Oh, and I got bin Laden,” reads the post, which features a photo of Obama.

The Facebook page indicates Erickson liked music by Ed Sheeran, Fall Out Boy, Eminem and Bruno Mars and TV shows like “The Walking Dead” and “South Park.”

Older photos show him smiling with friends and acting on stage. In 2014, he posted that he’d sent his resume in for a spot on “The Walking Dead.”

“The chances are 1/1000000 but I still have a chance. Wish me luck,” he wrote.





One student was killed and eight others injured when Erickson and an underage suspect allegedly opened fire inside the K-12 school Tuesday afternoon.

George Brauchler, the district attorney for Colorado’s 18th Judicial District, which covers Douglas County, asked the media to “adopt a no-notoriety approach.”

“Let us move past focusing on the identity of the suspects and their images and focus instead on the innocent victims and on this crime and this investigation itself,” Brauchler said at a press conference.

Authorities believe the two alleged shooters attended STEM. The second suspect is a transgender minor who is transitioning from female to male, sources told the Denver Channel.

But at a press conference Wednesday morning, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said authorities are identifying the minor as a female.





Erickson’s priors include citations for careless driving and driving an unsafe vehicle, the Denver Channel reported.

Officers were on scene at a Highlands Ranch home believed to be linked to Erickson on Tuesday night. They towed a white Honda sedan with “F— society,” “666” and what looked like a pentagram spray-painted across it, according to local reports.

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