Sheriff: Victim, Claire Davis 17, apparently did not know Colorado school shooter at Arapahoe High School shooting

This kid had some serious intention of causing major havoc and mayhem!  Thank the Lord he took his own life before taking others. 

CNN reports the victim in Friday's school shooting in Centennial, Colorado, "probably was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time," Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson told reporters Saturday.

Robinson said that to his knowledge the shooter and the victim, identified as 17-year-old Claire Esther Davis, did not know each other.

"His intent was evil, and his evil intent was to harm multiple individuals," Robinson said about Karl Pierson, whose entrance into Arapahoe High School just before 12:33 p.m. was documented on security cameras, as was the bulk of the one minute, 20 seconds that ensued prior to his suicide.

The high school senior and debate club member parked his car along the curb in the student lot, then -- wearing a bandolier of shotgun shells and carrying a pump-action shotgun, a machete and a backpack holding three Molotov cocktails -- entered a door adjacent to the library on the north side of the building, Robinson said.

"He took no effort to conceal the fact that he was armed," he said.

Once inside, Pierson "fired one random shot down a hallway," then entered the area where Davis was seated with a friend, "and shot the female victim point-blank" in the head. "There was no particular interaction," he said. "There was no time for the victim to run from the shooter."

Pierson then fired another round down the 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 and poured smoke into the library.

He then fired a fifth round and ran to the library's back corner, "and there took his own life."

By then, a faculty member, the librarian -- accompanied by a janitor -- had departed the school building, he said.

The janitor told CNN affiliate KMGH on Friday that the student was wearing tactical gear.

"It just looked weird," Fabian Llerenas said. "He went in and I heard two pops. That's when I knew. I said, 'They are shooting in the school.'"

Llerenas said he called security and then escorted the faculty member out of the school.

Pierson had fired at the man but missed, Llerenas told KUSA.

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It’s only God’s grace that kept this situation from becoming much much worse.