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Emily Keyes

Case from Bailey, CO dated Sep 27, 2006

Victim Details

Emily Keyes

Female

White / Caucasian

Bailey

CO

2006-09-27

16

Emily

Keyes

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In the small town of Bailey, Colorado, a crisp autumn day in September of 2006 was shattered by an act of violence that would leave the community forever changed. Sixteen-year-old Emily Keyes, a female student at Platte Canyon High School, found her life tragically cut short during a terrifying hostage crisis that unfolded within the walls of her school. On September 27th, a 53-year-old man named Duane Roger Morrison entered the high school armed with a handgun and a backpack he claimed containe ...
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  • Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis - Wikipedia
  • The Denver Post: Gunman, hostage die
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