Two teenagers were sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to their roles in a 2021 shooting outside Hinkley High School in Aurora.

Dalen Brewer, 18, and Larry Jefferson, 17, were sentenced in Arapahoe County on second-degree attempted murder charges to seven years in the Youthful Offenders System.

On Nov. 19, 2021, just before noon, surveillance cameras showed a white truck pulling into the school parking lot and stopping near another vehicle. Several people got out of both cars and began arguing, and shots were fired in the parking lot. Several students ran from the scene. The fight was later determined to be a confrontation between rival gang members.

Brewer, the driver of the white truck, and Jefferson, who was in the passenger seat, could be seen in the surveillance footage shooting handguns out the windows.

Three students, two Hinkley students and one APS Avenues student, were injured in the shooting.

“These defendants put many lives at risk during what should have been a normal lunch hour on campus,” District Attorney John Kellner said. “Kids, their parents and teachers all deserve to feel safe at school. While no sentence can fully restore the lost feeling of security, it should deter future acts of senseless violence at school.”

A third defendant’s case was sent to juvenile court for sentencing. Per juvenile statutes, the district attorney’s office did not release that defendant’s name or case file.

A fourth defendant, Alejandro H. Carillo, 19, will also be sentenced on April 17 after pleading guilty to second-degree attempted murder.

Editor’s note: This article was updated at 9:06 a.m. Thursday, April 13, 2023, to correct the charges on which the teens were sentenced, which were misstated due to the reporter’s error. The teens were charged with second-degree attempted murder in the 2021 Hinkley High School shooting.

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