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   CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KABC) -- A teenager behind the Colorado   
   school shooting entered campus with a shotgun, a machete, three   
   explosive devices and had ammunition strapped to his body,   
   authorities said Saturday.   
      
   Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said Friday's shooting   
   at Arapahoe High School by 18-year-old Karl Pierson was likely   
   motivated by retaliation against a faculty member, probably a   
   librarian at the school.   
      
   Robinson said it looks like the librarian was the initial   
   target, but that the gunman planned to hurt multiple people,   
   evidenced by the large amount of ammunition he brought with him.   
      
   The sheriff said Pierson bought the pump-action shotgun legally   
   Dec. 6 at a local retail store. He also said the teen bought   
   ammunition legally the morning of the shooting. Anyone over 18   
   is allowed to buy a shotgun in Colorado; only those over 21 can   
   legally buy a handgun.   
      
   Robinson identified the wounded student as 17-year-old Claire   
   Esther Davis. It was initially reported that the injured student   
   was 15 years old. Robinson said she was likely not a target but   
   was in the wrong place at the wrong time.   
      
   "She is an innocent young lady and she was an innocent victim of   
   an evil act of violence," he said.   
      
   At a Saturday afternoon news conference, the sheriff read aloud   
   a letter from Davis' family. According to the letter, the teen   
   remains in critical condition with severe head trauma as a   
   result of a gunshot.   
      
   Officials initially said Pierson entered the school on the west   
   side. Robinson clarified Saturday that the shooter actually   
   entered from the north side. The sheriff said officials have   
   reviewed surveillance video, which showed that the entire   
   sequence of events took just 1 minute and 20 seconds - from the   
   time the gunman entered the school to when he took his own life.   
      
   According to Robinson, after the gunman entered the school, he   
   fired a random round down a hallway. He then shot Davis point   
   blank, then fired another round down a hallway. He then entered   
   the school's library/media center, where he fired another random   
   round and detonated one Molotov cocktail, setting three   
   bookshelves on fire. He then fired a fifth round, ran to the   
   back corner of the library and took his own life.   
      
   Sometime within this timeline, officials say Pierson asked   
   surrounding students about the whereabouts of Tracy Murphy, a   
   librarian at the school. Officials say Pierson made no attempt   
   to hide his weapon.   
      
   According to ABC News affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver, Murphy was in   
   charge of the debate team and had reportedly kicked Pierson off   
   the team recently. Fellow students describe Pierson as outspoken   
   and smart - not a loner. They also say he held communist views.   
      
   Quick-thinking students alerted Murphy, who quickly left school   
   grounds. Pierson critically wounded a 15-year-old student, but   
   the strategic response by police on the eve of the Newtown   
   massacre anniversary appears to have averted more bloodshed.   
      
   After the shooting was reported at about 12:30 p.m. MT,   
   authorities evacuated hundreds of students in an orderly   
   procession - a demonstration of aggressive security measures   
   developed by police and schools following the 1999 shooting at   
   Columbine, some 8 miles west of Arapahoe High. All of the   
   students there started school after Columbine and grew up in a   
   security-conscious era.   
      
   After that tragedy, police across the country developed "active   
   shooter" training in which responding officers rush toward   
   gunfire to stop the gunman.   
      
   Before Columbine, officials followed a contain-and-wait strategy   
   in which arriving officers set up a perimeter to contain the   
   situation, then wait for SWAT team members trained in military   
   tactics to bring down the gunman.   
      
   The Arapahoe High shooting came a day before the anniversary of   
   the Newtown, Conn., attack in which a gunman killed 20 children   
   and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.   
      
   Since Columbine, Colorado has endured other mass shootings,   
   including the killing of 12 people in a movie theater in nearby   
   Aurora in 2012. But it was not until after the Newtown massacre   
   that state lawmakers moved to enact stricter gun control laws.   
      
   http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id   
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