Support pours in for wounded Colo. girl

Associated Press

CENTENNIAL, Colo.

Support and concern for a 17-year-old girl critically wounded by a fellow student at a suburban Denver high school poured in Monday, both online and outside the school.

People offered prayers and left notes of support for Claire Davis at a fence at Arapahoe High School where white cups spelled out “Pray 4 Claire.” A notebook and a Christmas stocking filled with pens hung from the fence, while others left stuffed animal horses because of her love of riding.

On Twitter, people offered prayers in several languages for Davis, who is in a coma at a hospital a couple of miles away from the school.

Hundreds of students and other supporters turned out at the school’s track Sunday to pray and show support for Davis, described as fun, bubbly and caring.

“She is someone we need back, and we’re hoping she gets better because Arapahoe won’t be the same without her,” LinsiAn Loadman-Copeland said.

Authorities believe she was shot at random by fellow senior Karl Pierson soon after he entered the school Friday armed with a shotgun, extra ammunition, a machete and three Molotov cocktails, looking for a faculty member with whom he had a dispute.