EVERGREEN, Colo. — The emergency plan that Evergreen High School students and staff followed during the Sept. 10 shooting was created by a Colorado couple who lost their daughter in a school shooting nearly two decades ago.

Emily Keyes, 16, was one of several female students taken hostage by a gunman who walked into their classroom at Platte Canyon High School in 2006. Law enforcement says the gunman barricaded himself and the students in a classroom for several hours before ultimately killing Emily and himself.

"While she was held hostage, she was able to send a text message, 'I love you guys,'" said Emily's father, John-Michael Keyes. "Based on that text message, we started the I Love U Guys Foundation." Pictured: Emily Keyes

John-Michael and his wife, Ellen, started the foundation

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