Karl Halverson Pierson
US News
The 18-year-old Colorado man who shot a fellow student before killing himself Friday intended to shoot numerous people, but his rampage was interrupted by a school resource officer who responded to the shooting, officials said Saturday.
“His intent was evil,” Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said of Karl Halverson Pierson. “And his evil intent was to harm multiple individuals.”
Upon entering the school, Robinson said, Pierson fired one round down the hallway. He then shot Claire Esther Davis, 17, who just happened to be sitting nearby with a friend as he headed toward the library. The girl suffered severe head trauma and remains in critical condition at Littleton Adventist Hospital.
Confronted by the officer, the teen committed suicide less than a minute and a half after he entered the building, armed with a shotgun and multiple rounds of ammunition that he purchased legally, the sheriff said.
Robinson said the response of a school resource officer was “absolutely critical” to the fact that that there were no additional injuries or deaths.
Robinson said Pierson entered the school from the north side and fired one random shot down the hallway before firing at the victim at point blank range.
ierson then entered the library and ignited one of the Molotov cocktails. The deputy sheriff then ran through a long hallway from the cafeteria to the library. While the deputy was containing the shooter, the shooter took his own life at the north end of the library, Robinson said.
"Robinson said the response of a school resource officer was “absolutely critical” to the fact that that there were no additional injuries or deaths."
ReplyDeleteThis is the one statement to remember at the end of the day. In this case, all it took was one man with the grit to run towards the sound of gunfire.
Someone with a gun stopped a mass shooting.
ReplyDeleteOnce and another shooting today. Don't you get tired of being a lying criminal coward?
DeleteThe article does not clarify whether or not the resource officer was armed. Does anyone know if this man had a gun? The article seems to want to avoid the point that an armed school staff member was able to stop the active shooter.
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DeleteOnce he learned of the threat, he ran -- accompanied by an unarmed school security officer and two administrators -- from the cafeteria to the library, Robinson said. "It's a fairly long hallway, but the deputy sheriff got there very quickly."
The deputy was yelling for people to get down and identified himself as a county deputy sheriff, Robinson said. "We know for a fact that the shooter knew that the deputy was in the immediate area and, while the deputy was containing the shooter, the shooter took his own life."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/14/us/colorado-school-shooting/index.html
Armed or not, he has two big brass ones and shouldn't have to ever have to buy a beer in that town ever again.
It reminds me of the Clackmas Mall shooting. You guys have such an over-bloated opinion of yourselves, you actually believe that when a good guy with a gun shows up, the bad guy immediately puts a gun to his head and kills himself.
ReplyDeleteAt least that's the way you describe it. I suspect you don't believe that any more than you believe that more guns means less crime, but liars to the end, you claim it.
Mikeb, the article says that this knucklehead killed himself when confronted by a school resource officer. Now that generally means a cop, and that means armed.
Delete"You guys have such an over-bloated opinion of yourselves, you actually believe that when a good guy with a gun shows up, the bad guy immediately puts a gun to his head and kills himself."
DeleteActually Mike, if memory serves, there was a school shooting in LA that involved law enforcement shooting the assailant. The idea is to stop the bad guy. If he does himself, he is still stopped.
That is what the current practice for active shooter response counts on. The previous tactic for these types of assaults resulted in the carnage that occurred at Columbine.
The article does not say that, but then you are known for lying.
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