they have found shotgun shells. > . a 15-year-old girl was shot and wounded. after the gunfire rang out, terrified students ran under the school. pearson turned the gun on himself. casey, the question here, after all of these incidents, is why? why did this person, according to sheriffs offices there, deputies, why did he do it? do we know of a motive? investigators are saying there was some sort of dispute between this student, 18-year-old karl pierson and the librarian, the head of the school s debate squad, which pierson was a member of. they are looking at revenge for a potential motive in another
police say 18-year-old karl pierson shot and injured a 15-year-old girl. he then shot and killed himself. police believe he wanted to confront a faculty member, a librarian. that faculty member escaped safely. number two, oh bundle up today. we could see as much as 10 inches of snow in upstate new york and across to maine. wind gusts as high as 28 miles an hour in this area. so you have snow drifts to watch out for as well. buffalo, new york, already has two to three feet of snow on the ground and could see another foot by tomorrow night. the death of a woman banished from her hospital bed and later found dead in a stairwell, ruled an accident. 57-year-old lynn died from dehydration and complications from chronic alcoholism. she was discovered in october by
then we heard the screaming. police say pearson wanted revenge because of what police call a confrontation or disagreement. witnesses saw pierson enter the high school carrying a shotgun and making no attempt to hide it. pierson asked other students the whereabouts of a faculty member, accordingly the librarian and head of the debate team. when authorities heard that the student was asking for him, the teacher exited immediately. i found him. he was running military towards the building. i alerted everybody in the building. that s when i heard two big bangs. zbl in addition to the shotgun. authorities found two molotov cocktails inside the school. one was rendered safe. the other was detonated. that s why the deputies found
school. this was in a denver suburb yesterday. he sought to confront a faculty member. that may be part of that why. a 15-year-old girl was shot, critically injured. when police got to the school, they found pierson dead on the ground. we have casey wian live for us in colorado. casey, i know police said pierson wanted to confront a librarian. do we know what that was about? reporter: we have information, christi and victor, about that according to sheriff s officers. the librarian is the coach of the school debate team. pierson was a member of the team. apparently there had been some disagreement or dispute between the two. that s why he came to the campus armed with a shotgun and two molotov cocktails. what investigators don t know now is why the 15-year-old girl who remains in critical condition in the hospital was
they say he came to the school seeking revenge against a teacher. there s smoke. there s a fire in the library. chaos and confusion at colorado s arapaho high school as a gunman opens fire. i m on the north side. i have a student down. shotgun shell on the ground. two shotgun shell on the ground. and this morning the suburban high school is still a crime scene. we do have one student down and they found shotgun shells. police say the gunman identified as 18-year-old karl pierson shot one student before taking his own life. it was pretty scary. there were two shots.