12-14-2013, 11:39 AM
There are enough of these happening to warrant a catch-all thread, sadly.
On the eve of the Newtown anniversary, a high school senior in Colorado took a shotgun to school yesterday.
This is he:
![[Image: hqdefault.jpg]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qBk1ScWaLiM/hqdefault.jpg)
^ Karl Halverson Pierson, 18
According to the story, he was pissed off because the school librarian and debate coach had kicked him off the debate team. He was on a mission to take her out.
He didn't try to conceal his weapon, just waltzed into the school, headed for the library (shooting and critically injuring a female student along the way) and blustered into the library.
Max Minnie, a fellow senior, was in the library and yelled for everyone to run. The librarian, Mrs. Murphy, and a bunch of kids got out. Police were en-route. They arrived 14 minutes after the first call.
Minnie described Pierson as a really smart guy, very aggressive verbally and always had to to win, but not seemingly violent.
The school had implemented practice drills in the wake of other school shootings and students exited the buildings according to the protocols. LE appeared on the scene and patted down students as they left school grounds.
They found the shooter, Pierson, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound on school grounds shortly thereafter. LE is now investigating the shooter's home.
Two Molotov cocktails were apparently left behind in the school, according to Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.school. One detonated but the other didn't.
No word yet on the status of the 15 year-old who was shot and critically wounded - she was in emergency surgery yesterday. Hope she pulls through.
Arapahoe High School in Colorado has more than 2,000 students. It is located about eight miles from Columbine High School, scene of a mass school shooting in 1999.
Sources:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/ara...-librarian
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/201...ooting.php
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooter-dead...t-colo-hs/
On the eve of the Newtown anniversary, a high school senior in Colorado took a shotgun to school yesterday.
This is he:
^ Karl Halverson Pierson, 18
According to the story, he was pissed off because the school librarian and debate coach had kicked him off the debate team. He was on a mission to take her out.
He didn't try to conceal his weapon, just waltzed into the school, headed for the library (shooting and critically injuring a female student along the way) and blustered into the library.
Max Minnie, a fellow senior, was in the library and yelled for everyone to run. The librarian, Mrs. Murphy, and a bunch of kids got out. Police were en-route. They arrived 14 minutes after the first call.
Minnie described Pierson as a really smart guy, very aggressive verbally and always had to to win, but not seemingly violent.
The school had implemented practice drills in the wake of other school shootings and students exited the buildings according to the protocols. LE appeared on the scene and patted down students as they left school grounds.
They found the shooter, Pierson, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound on school grounds shortly thereafter. LE is now investigating the shooter's home.
Two Molotov cocktails were apparently left behind in the school, according to Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.school. One detonated but the other didn't.
No word yet on the status of the 15 year-old who was shot and critically wounded - she was in emergency surgery yesterday. Hope she pulls through.
Arapahoe High School in Colorado has more than 2,000 students. It is located about eight miles from Columbine High School, scene of a mass school shooting in 1999.
Sources:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/ara...-librarian
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/201...ooting.php
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooter-dead...t-colo-hs/