Arapahoe High School Shooting Leaves At Least 2 Injured
12/13/2013
At least two people were injured in a shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo. on Friday.
One student was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, according to KDVR. The second student suffered a minor gunshot wound.
At a 1:45 p.m. press conference, County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the suspect, who was a student, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities “found his body in the internal portion of the school in a classroom,” Robinson said at a 3:00 press conference. The shooter is believed to have acted alone.
The shooter "targeted a specific teacher that he was interested in confronting," according to Robinson.
The student entered the high school carrying a shotgun Friday afternoon and asked for the teacher by name. When that teacher found out the armed student was asking for him, he left the school immediately. The teacher was not injured.
Robinson also said that no weapons had been found at the scene besides the shotgun used in the shooting, though there were initial reports of a possible Molotov cocktail. Robinson said a bomb squad was investigating the school.
"It's a very difficult day for Littleton schools and Arapahoe High School," Scott Murphy, district superintendent, told the press.
Arapahoe High School is part of Littleton Public Schools and has about 2,000 students, according to WSLS 10. The school was evacuated after the incident.
Arapahoe High School is eight miles from Columbine High School, where two students fatally shot 13 people in 1999 before killing themselves; and 17 miles from Aurora, Colo., where James Holmes allegedly opened fire on a movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 70.
Sheriff Robinson said Friday that there is no evidence that the Arapahoe shooting had any connection to the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza killed 27 people, including 20 children, before taking his own life.
12/13/2013
At least two people were injured in a shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo. on Friday.
One student was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, according to KDVR. The second student suffered a minor gunshot wound.
At a 1:45 p.m. press conference, County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the suspect, who was a student, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities “found his body in the internal portion of the school in a classroom,” Robinson said at a 3:00 press conference. The shooter is believed to have acted alone.
The shooter "targeted a specific teacher that he was interested in confronting," according to Robinson.
The student entered the high school carrying a shotgun Friday afternoon and asked for the teacher by name. When that teacher found out the armed student was asking for him, he left the school immediately. The teacher was not injured.
Robinson also said that no weapons had been found at the scene besides the shotgun used in the shooting, though there were initial reports of a possible Molotov cocktail. Robinson said a bomb squad was investigating the school.
"It's a very difficult day for Littleton schools and Arapahoe High School," Scott Murphy, district superintendent, told the press.
Arapahoe High School is part of Littleton Public Schools and has about 2,000 students, according to WSLS 10. The school was evacuated after the incident.
Arapahoe High School is eight miles from Columbine High School, where two students fatally shot 13 people in 1999 before killing themselves; and 17 miles from Aurora, Colo., where James Holmes allegedly opened fire on a movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 70.
Sheriff Robinson said Friday that there is no evidence that the Arapahoe shooting had any connection to the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza killed 27 people, including 20 children, before taking his own life.
