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Killer kills self after wounding student
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A teenager who wounded a fellow student before killing himself at a suburban Denver high school entered the building with a shotgun, a machete, three Molotov cocktails and ammunition strapped to body, likely intending to track down a librarian who had disciplined him, according to authorities.
After firing a round down a hallway, Karl Pierson, 18, shot a fellow student who was sitting nearby with a friend as he headed toward the library. Claire Davis, 17, was shot in the head at point-blank range and remained hospitalized on Saturday in critical condition.
Pierson set off one of the devices, but killed himself just one minute and 20 seconds after entering the building because he knew a sheriff’s deputy assigned to the school was closing in, Sheriff Grayson Robinson said at a news conference.
Pierson’s original target was believed to be a librarian who coached the school’s speech and debate team.
The librarian, whose name was not released, had disciplined the teen in September for reasons that haven’t been disclosed.
The librarian was able to escape the school unharmed.
The scene unfolded on the eve of the December 14, 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which a gunman killed 20 children and six educators. Arapahoe High School is just 13 kilometers from Columbine High School, where in 1999 two teenage shooters killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves. More recently, a shooter killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, another Denver suburb, in the summer of 2012.
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