Authorities in Colorado on Thursday named the 16-year-old student suspected of shooting two other students at Evergreen High School on Wednesday and said that he had been “radicalized by an extremist network,” which they did not identify.

The suspect, Desmond Holly, died of self-inflicted injuries Wednesday night after he opened fire on the school grounds that day, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

“He was radicalized by some extremist network,” a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office, Jacki Kelley, told reporters at a news briefing outside the school in Evergreen, Colorado, a mountain town about 30 miles southwest of Denver.

She did not describe the network, saying only that “we want to at least give you that much about, maybe, the mindset for him.”

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