DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. – Drivers on C-470 will discover a change to overhead freeway indicators to replicate the renaming of the previous Lucent Boulevard to Kendrick Castillo Means, honoring the hero pupil who charged a gunman and finally misplaced his life through the 2019 STEM College capturing in Highlands Ranch.
The freeway indicators are anticipated to be swapped out this week after Castillo’s household and officers unveiled Kendrick Castillo Means again in November.
A memorial committee arrange in honor of Castillo requested the identify change, which was authorised by Douglas County Commissioners.
Douglas County
“As founder and chairman of the Kendrick Castillo Memorial Committee, I believed it was essential for our group to show tragedy into triumph and elevate the identify of one in every of our best heroes, Kendrick Castillo, as a beacon of braveness and heroism to all who come to Douglas County,” stated DougCo Commissioner Abe Laydon in a information launch.
“Kendrick Castillo Means is greater than a road signal; it’s a lifestyle. Working into the hazard and the unknown to avoid wasting others, sacrificing your life to avoid wasting another person – that’s the best expression of who we may be as people and as Coloradans.”
The county stated the method to alter the indicators has been underway since late final 12 months.
STEM College Capturing
Highlands Ranch highway renamed to honor STEM College hero Kendrick Castillo
Castillo, a member of the varsity’s robotic membership, was at school on Could 7, 2019, when a pupil pulled out a gun. Castillo, together with two different classmates, charged the coed to disarm him when Castillo – a senior and simply days away from ending faculty – was fatally shot. The capturing injured one other pupil who jumped into motion to assist.
Final Could, Denver7 spoke with Castillo’s dad and mom who stated they visited their son’s grave day-after-day over the past 5 years since he was misplaced.
“We come right here and inform him that we love him. We inform him what his associates are doing,” stated John Castillo, Kendrick’s dad. “We have now that dialog as if he was right here with us, and we have been in a position to get a bit of little bit of peace about explaining what is going on on in our lives… It is a one-way dialog that generally feels actually good, you already know?”
- You may watch Denver7’s Colette Bordelon’s sit-down interview with Castillo’s dad and mom within the video participant under.
Kendrick Castillo’s dad and mom have visited his grave day-after-day since his demise
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