Officials identified the Evergreen High School shooting suspect that allegedly injured two students and took his own life as 16-year-old Desmond Holly.

Holly allegedly entered the school with a revolver and fired and reloaded “on and on and on,” Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said at a news conference on Thursday.

“The suspect’s gun was fired a lot,” Kelley emphasized, adding that they are lucky more students were not injured.

“I have to believe when you bring a gun to school and you continue to fire and reload, you are on a mission,” she said. “We are grateful that he was less successful, but we are devastated that he was successful at all.”

Three minors, including the shooter, who were taken to the hospital with critical injuries as a result of the shooti

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