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Colorado's school shooting -- over in 80 seconds
By CNN's Tom Watkins and Ana Cabrera
updated 2:33 PM EST, Sun December 15, 2013
In less than 80 seconds, Karl Pierson "fired one random shot down a hallway," then entered an area where 17-year-old Claire Esther Davis was seated with a friend, "and shot the female victim point-blank" in the head. "There was no time for the victim to run from the shooter," Robinson told reporters on Saturday.
Pierson then fired another round down a hallway, then entered the library, where he fired again and ignited one of the Molotov cocktails, according to Robinson. That ignited at least three bookshelves, causing smoke to pour into the library.
He then fired a fifth round and ran to the library's back corner, "and there took his own life."
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The rampage might have resulted in many more casualties had it not been for the quick response of a deputy sheriff who was working as a school resource officer at the school, Robinson said.
Once 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."
He praised the deputy's response as "a critical element to the shooter's decision" to kill himself, and lauded his response to hearing gunshots. "He went to the thunder," he said. "He heard the noise of gunshot and, when many would run away from it, he ran toward it to make other people safe."
It's remarkable how CNN goes out of their way not to say that an ARMED person stopped what could have been a much more terrible situation, but just that he was "yelling for people to get down" and "the shooter knew that the deputy was in the immediate area" and the deputy was "containing the shooter"
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