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Originally Posted by SydneyK
This is a fair question. DA, you seem to be in the know about this whole story. Has there been anything mentioned about how this guy was even allowed into the school to begin with?
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Not that I've seen, heard of read. It seems like a few students saw him, thought he was a little strange and then the situation was out of control.
My impression is that this guy wasn't hanging around for hours, though, and this developed fairly rapidly.
Most, if not all, of the Denver area high schools have full time police or sheriffs deputies in the buildings at all times. I don't know if that true of the close in mountain town schools or not. Nothing has been said about a deputy being assigned there.
I think Valkyrie has an excellent point. Looking back at school shootings and hostage situations, most have been either in suburbs or rural areas. I can't remember one in a hard core urban setting.
I heard the Park County Sheriff on the radio on the way home who said that an assasult rifle was found in a highway turnout area not far from the school. There is no evidence to say that it had or didn't have anything to due with this situation, but the Sheriff called the discovery, "interesting."
It was reported today that the gunman had been "living in his car" in recent months. There was also some speculation (important to note that word) that he may have targeted certain of the girls before going to the school. A male student allegedly said that a man had asked him about girls at the school.
(ETA that KUSA-TV is reporting that the sheriff has confirmed that the gunman had a list of names of female students)
The story is getting fairly wierd, but with the gunman dead the truth and motive may never be known.