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“Send this to everyone you know. the more who know about me the better.

1. Full name: Eric Harris
2. Nicknames: REB, reverend, indigo, WAR
3. Birthplace: wichita, KS
4. Birthday: 4/9/81
5. Where Do You Live Now?: hell. a few days ago people called it littleton.(denver)
6. Parent(s): Wayne and Kathy
7. Sibling(s): Kevin
8. Looks: 5'10" 140. skinny but handsom, some say
9. Favorite Animal(s): Dogs, bald eagles.
10. Favorite TV Show(s): i hate TV
11. Favorite Kind(s) Of Music: industrial
12. Favorite Movie(s): Lots highway
13. School: former Columbine high school.
14. Future School: none
15. Future Job: none
16. Boyfriend/Girlfriend: Nope
17. Best Buds: the 4 horsemen. me(war), vodka(death), —–(famine), —–(pestilence)
18. Favorite Candy: slim jims.
19. Hobbies: doom. guns.
20. Things You Collect: fireworks. gun powder.
21. Do You Have A Personal Phone Line: kinda, its the computer line too.
22. Favorite Body Part Of The Opposite Sex.? legs.
23. Any Tattoos And Where Of What?: Not yet.
24. Piercing(s) And Where?: hell no.
25. What Do You Sleep in?: Boxers
26. Do you like Chain Letters: burn em.
27. Best Advice: follow instincts.
28. Favorite Quotes: kill em all. lets rock. BUCK DICH
29. Non-sport Activity You Enjoy: Computer, shooting.
30. Dream Car: hummer.
31. Favorite Thing To Do In Spring: shoot stuff. blow stuff up.
32. What’s Your Bedtime: whenever
33. Where Do You Shop?: try not to. army surplus or hot topics, even though its a trendy little place.
34. Coke or Pepsi: Coke
35. Favorite Thing(s) To Wear?: black stuff and sunglasses.
36. Favorite Subject(s) In School?: Bowling.
37. Favorite Color(s): black
38. Favorite People To Talk To Online: —– in CSU
39. Root-Beer or Dr. Pepper? toss em both.
40. Do You Shave? when i feel like it.
41. Favorite Vacation Spot(s): mountains.
42. Favorite Family Member(s): Bro.
43. Did You Eat Paint Chips When You Were a Kid? No
44. Favorite CD you own: a custom burn of gothic industrial stuff.
45. The ONE Person Who You Hate The Most: are cops one person?
46. Favorite Food(s): salsa sunflower seeds and slim jims.
47. Who Is The Hottest Guy or Girl In The World?: —– something. a few others.
48. What Is Your Favorite Salad Dressing?: ranch
49. When You Die, Do You Wanna Be Buried or Burned Into Ashes? Burned.
50. Do You Believe In Aliens?: you bet your probbed ass i do
51. If You Had The Chance To Professionally Do Something, What would You Do?: blow up things.
52. Things You Obsess Over: guns bombs doom.
53. Favorite Day of the Week: friday
54. A Teacher You Hate: —–
55. Favorite Disney Movie: burn em all
56. What Is Your Favorite Season? summer
57. What Toppings Do You Like On Your Pizza? peproni and green peps.
58. Do You Like Your School Food Itself (As In The District Food):
59. If You Could Live Anywhere, Where Would You Live? phobos
60. Favorite Thing(s) To Do On Weekends: bowl and get stoned
61. Favorite Thing(s) To Get Clean up: eh?
62. Favorite Magazine(s): guns and ammo, penthouse, time.
63. Favorite Flower(s): this chinese one i saw.
64. Favorite Number(s): 7, 666
65. Favorite Ice Cream flavor(s): cookie dough!!!!
66. What Kind of Guys/Girls Are You Attracted to?: sexy and fun ones.
67. What’s Your Most Embarrassing Moment? getting arrested
68. If You Could Change One Thing About Yourself What Would It be? weight.
69. Do You Eat Breakfast First Then Brush Your Teeth or Brush first ten eat breakfast: i eat breakfast and then i brush my teeth
70. Favorite Time of Day: 2am.
71. Can A Guy and Girl Be Just “Best Friends?”: i guess.
72. Do You Ask The Girl / Guy Out Or Do You Wait For Them To Come To You?: ask em out.
73. Do You Mind Paying For Sex? depends on who its with, but no not really.
74. What’s The Most Important thing In Someone’s Personality: compassion
75. Do you have a pager or cell phone? hell no
76. Favorite Sport: soccer
77. What Was the Best Gift You Ever Received? my 86 honda prelude.
78. How Long Did This Letter Take You To Finish?: 5 min
79. What Did You Listen To While Completing It?: Nothing
80. Are you or would you like to be married in the near future (next 5 years)? no
81. Don’t u just hate how psychics never win the lottery? would rather rob.”

I appear to have gotten into an argument and want to confirm a point shared by the other party I'm discussing with.

Was Rachel killed by 4 direct gunshots? I read that Eric shot her 3 times and when she tried to get up he shot her again in the head, killing her.

Think about it; the last time he spoke to his sister Rachel, they argued, and he slammed the door to her car. When the shooting started, she was the first to get cut down. He was in the library with two of his friends who were killed, and the only reason he wasn’t killed along with them was that he smeared blood on himself to play dead. When he got out of the library, he didn’t even realize the dead girl he ran past was his sister. Hearing him speak in interviews, I can hear the pain in his voice. I can only imagine the regret and survivor’s guilt he goes through. RIP to Rachel and the other 12, and I hope Craig can keep going.

Last year I did a trip to Colorado with my friend and never really planned on visiting Columbine. She’s not into morbid history and I didn’t want to make her uncomfortable so I didn’t really look how far it was from where we were staying. The last day we had nothing to do so I put it in the GPS just to see and it was only a half hour away so I mentioned it and she was surprisingly down to go.

It was the weekend so we weren’t in the way of the flow of the regular school day. We pulled in the main parking lot and it was so strange being there. I mean it looked like any other high school building but I couldn’t wrap my mind around this being the place where it happened. That’s the place where those two schemed. That’s where those innocent teenagers and teachers went off expecting just a regular day full of lessons and tests, not knowing the darkness that was to come. All that footage I saw on YouTube of the students running out in panic and Patrick Ireland climbing out of the window replayed in my head.

We ended up parking on the side and walking the path towards the memorial. I remember on the walk just taking in the view. It was so beautiful with the view of the mountains in the back. People were out and about just enjoying the day and walking their dogs. Young kids were playing tag not too far away. I remember my friend made a remark like “how could anyone be so angry at the world with views like this.”

When we got to the memorial, we stayed there for a bit reading through all the writings and memorials. Normally in places like this I would just skim and move on quickly but I took everything in. It was powerful and it was nice to read about each victim and learn a little more about them and who they were.

If you ever get the chance, I definitely recommend checking the memorial out. My only advice would be to make sure to visit during non school hours.

This is the Healing Bear.

Was sent anonymous to students in Montoursville when Flight 800 crashed killing 230, 27 from the small community in Pennsylvania.

Then to Oklahoma City, Then Columbine.

Was missing in 2014 not sure if the Healing Bear has turned back up.

This was interesting to read about as I’ve never heard of this before.

The "healing bear" arrives in Littleton. Originally sent by an unknown donor to the victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the bear was in turn sent to Area Senior High School in Montoursville, Pa., after 16 students, a teacher and four chaperones died in an explosion while on a French Club trip to Paris. (Learning For Justice, 2004)

Since April, the bear has been on display at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., where 13 people were killed by two teen gunmen in the nation's worst-ever school shooting.

And now it's being sent to Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, where 7 people, including 3 teen-agers were shot and killed last week by gunman Larry Gene Ashbrook.

"It's a symbol that has comforted us, let us know the country was thinking of us," said a Littleton woman. "We hope it will be the same for them, to help them in their healing process." (CBSnews, 1999)

The only teacher killed was Dave Sanders who saved many lives that day.

Why didn’t they target any teachers?

Was it that the teachers weren’t the ones they were after but the kids?

So everyone knows this picture. But im genuinely asking, was this after the library massacre or before? According to the time, it's after. It's just hard for me to interpret their demeanor after slaughtering their classmates. They look unbothered. Im throughly disturbed and wondering if i got something wrong.

Been meaning to ask this for a while but i felt dumb. Can anyone confirm anything?

Let’s say that your favorite working director decides to make an accurate and respectful film based on the shooting. Do you think enough time has passed so that a Columbine film could come out and not piss you off, say, in December this year?

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In the Columbine & Them & You & Me & Everybody podcast, five people from E&D’s circle of friends were featured: Shaun Lee, Rebecca Heins, Marla Faust, Nicole Markham, and Chad Laughlin. Did one or more of them know any of the victims, deceased and injured alike, or interact with them at some point?

I realize speculation is frowned upon, so I'll clarify. I'm not looking for a definitive answer — because there isn't one. I want to know what you think.

It's pretty much established that the Eric as leader/Dylan as follower theory is a myth. We know NBK was Dylan's idea, and that he had other accomplices in mind before Eric.

We know Eric had a bit of treatment/was on medication at least.

But... Eric was also unstable, also had a desire to kill, and also had a desire to die.

So this is not to say that if Eric hadn't met Dylan he would have become a model citizen. He participated in NBK because he wanted to.

My question for you is, do you believe Eric would have committed such an atrocity by himself? Do you think he would have been capable of such horrors if he didn't have an accomplice?

Obviously there's no wrong answers here. It's purely for the sake of discussion.

• Kimberly carlin

(it’s speculated eric liked kim, but it’s unconfirmed)

Kimberly carlin was born on october 6, 1980.

She worked at blackjack pizza from March 1997 to November 1998. She was a cook first, and then a manager.

According to Kim, Chris Morris started working at blackjack first, then Eric, and then Dylan.

Kim stated that she would go bowling and go out to eat with Eric and Chris, but didn’t do much with Dylan. She also had classes with them.

“Dylan and me never got heart-to-heart like me and Eric would. i don't think Dylan fit into us very well. He was too quiet. We would get into massive food fights or water fights. He wasn't into playing with us.” – Kim Carlin

“if you would ask [dylan] something embarrassing he'd turn red and give you this little grin.” – Kim Carlin

Kim said she would jokingly call Eric and Chris “the tcm” because they always wore trench coats.

She said she was treated very politely by all three of them.

According to Kim, when they were bored at blackjack they would go to baskin robins, buy dry ice, and make bombs. They would blow them up behind the store.

She also said Eric and Dylan would drive up to wyoming to buy fireworks and then give employees a show behind the store.

“we used to make dry-ice balls behind the store. you put dry ice and hot water in a 2-liter bottle. it just shoots up. we stole a cone one time when they did road construction in the parking lot. we would see how high we could shoot the cone.” – Kim Carlin

Kim said Dylan once brought a bag with a white plastic pipe in it to work with instructions on how to make a bomb. He got in trouble with the supervisor and quit two days later.

He eventually went back to work at blackjack because they “got into a jam.”

On homecoming night of their junior year, Eric, Kim, and Sara arbogast skipped the school’s dance for dinner at the old spaghetti factory in denver.

When they arrived to pick Eric up, they had to wait ten minutes for his mom to get home because he didn’t want her to worry.

“[eric] didn't want to leave without [his mom] knowing where he was. He didn't want her to worry." – kim carlin

Eric would complain to Kim and Sara about bullying.

“no one ever gave him a chance. people always looked at me because i would go over and hug him in the morning.” – kim carlin

When Eric got his senior pictures taken and whined about how "stupid" he looked, Kim and Sada cooed about how cute he was and helped him choose prints.

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• Sabrina Cooley

About a week before the massacre, Eric asked her to prom. She said no and humiliated him in front of their whole psychology class. She had a boyfriend at the time.

It’s unknown what she did to embarrass him. It could have been the rejection itself.

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• Sarah Davies

While eric was in Plattsburgh, he met Sarah Davies in the 6th grade.

Sarah described eric as a nice, quiet kid who lived on the air force base.

“he was one of my first boyfriends. well, it doesn't really matter. i mean, it was like a 6th grade boyfriend.” – Sarah

“it’s kind of funny to think back about things we did together. like we went to the clinton county fair with two other kids. i don't like certain rides very much. they were all about to go on one and he came running out so i didn't have to be by myself. he was just a sweetheart.”

After Eric moved to littleton, he and Sarah would keep in touch through letters. She said some of the letters are silly, and one time he told her he didn’t want to see other girls.

They would also talk on the phone and on the internet too.

“i'm a very quiet and not a very emotional person and tend to listen. he tried to be open, and get me to talk about things that were going on in my life. i really liked that about him. he was compassionate.” – sarah davis describing eric during their phone calls and e-mails

Sarah remembers one phone conversation where he talked about the van incident.

Sarah: "why would you do that, break into a van?"

Eric: "i don't know. it was spur of the moment. we saw it there."

Sarah said she’d like to believe what he said was true, but doesn’t know if it was.

Eric: “now i have to deal with this court stuff. my parents are real pissed off."

Sarah: "ok, you made a mistake. live with the consequences, learn from it. and move on from there."

Eric: "i definitely am. i think i’m going to start a new job. i’m playing soccer here. and things are going better."

“later on, i was thinking that eric had lost a lot of hope for his future. [...] he was having a problem with his after-school plans. he told me he'd gotten rejected from the armed forces. and his college prospects weren't looking up all that much.” – Sarah Davis

Sarah said that Eric made plans to take a road trip across the country and visit her during the summer of 1999.

Eric also mentioned this in the basement tapes, saying he wished he could have revisited michigan and "old friends” before he started to cry.

“we were watching tv, flipping through the channels, and saw the school shooting thing. on the bottom of the tv it says where they are, littleton, colorado. i just sat there and couldn't move at first. then i got up and i went in my room. i shut the door and i started bawling.”

“then my mom came down and asked, "what's wrong?" and i couldn't even get the words out. i finally told her, "littleton. eric lives in littleton. that's where the school shooting was and i'm really worried about him."

“[the next morning] my eyes were beet red from crying the whole night. when i got home, my dad came out and his eyes were all puffy. he said, "i have bad news. your friend eric was one of the shooters." i pretty much broke down there in the driveway.” – Sarah Davis

“all i ask is that people take a second and look a little bit deeper, just a little bit. maybe i'm not going to convince anyone that he wasn't an evil entity or a monster. that's what they made him out to be. i don't think the word human being was ever used in relation to him.”

After the massacre, an unsent email to sarah was found on eric’s computer. the fbi refused to show it to her.

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Susan dewitt was born on february 3, 1982.

In january of 1999, Susan met Eric. She worked as a receptionist at great clips, which was located in the same strip mall as blackjack pizza. she would take frequent trips there to pick up pizzas for herself and her co-workers.

Whenever Susan would pick up a pizza, her and Eric would talk. She stated that he seemed very nice, and that they found out they went to the same school.

Eric somehow determined her name and began to ask her friends at school about her and if she liked him or not.

On a few occasions, Eric even went into great clips to ask for Susan. He asked a friend of hers, Megan Lebsack, if susan liked him.

“she thought he was cute. adorable even. he always talked to her when he ran into her at school.” – the denver rocky mountain news, about susan.

On April 16, 1999, business was slow at great clips so susan went to blackjack to place an order.

At 7:30pm, she returned to pick the pizza up. Eric gave it to her and they talked briefly. Susan gave Eric her phone number and Eric told her he would call her after work (9pm).

Susan’s mother asked Eric if he wanted her pager number and gave it to him.

She then told police that she recalled thinking that it seemed very unusual that he would get so angry so quickly, simply because Susan wasn’t home to answer his call.

At 9:29pm, Eric paged susan with his phone number, asking her to call him. He gave the number 932-8561 followed by 732, which was his personal code.

Susan stated that many kids were using personal codes following their phone numbers to let their friends know it was really them.

Susan and Eric talked on the phone. He told her he was at home and that the 932 number was his personal line in his room. Susan told him she was spending the night at her friend Katie’s house.

They talked for about thirty minutes. She stated he did not seem mad at all.

During the phone call, Eric mentioned some kids that he used to be friends with who were making fun of him. He mentioned Mike Dinkel and told Susan that he heard he was talking about him and making fun of him so he stopped hanging out with him.

Susan stated that they also talked about computers because she was attempting to install AOL at her friend’s house.

Eric asked her if she had plans for saturday (the next day) and she said she did not. They agreed that eric would call her the next day.

On April 17th (prom night), Eric called Susan at around 6:30 or 7:00pm. He asked her if she wanted to come to his house to watch a movie and she agreed.

She drove herself to his house and arrived around 7pm. He only lived five minutes away from her and he gave her directions.

When susan arrived at Eric’s house, he told her he was home alone and that his parents just left because they were going out to dinner for their anniversary. She noticed Eric’s trench coat laying on the stairs.

"he seemed fine. i was a little nervous because, like, dates are nervous." – susan dewitt

Susan stated that Eric was acting normal, “sitting around,” and that he asked her if she wanted to go downstairs to watch a movie.

They went downstairs and watched event horizon straight through with no interruptions. it ended at 9:30/9:40pm.

Eric told Susan it was one of his favorite movies. She said it was about “demons and a haunted ship.”

After it was over, they talked about other movies and made small talk. Susan stated that Eric only got up to let the dog in or out of the room.

Eric mentioned Mike Dinkel again. Susan stated that he seemed more hurt rather than angry and that he described him as a “jerk.”

At around 10:00/10:30pm, Eric’s parents returned home. his mother, and then his father, came downstairs to talk to them.

Susan said they talked to his parents for about five minutes and that they seemed super nice. Kathy shook Susan’s hand and Wayne told Susan that he got his hair cut at the great clips she worked at.

His parents went upstairs and Eric asked her if she wanted to listen to music. Eric and Susan went into his bedroom. She stated that his room had band posters hanging on the walls and one of Jenny McCarthy. She noticed that he had a lot of cds that he made off of his computer.

At one point, he offered to make her copies of a cd. Susan noticed Soccer Jerseys hanging in his room and asked Eric if he played it. He told her that he did, until recently, but he dropped out.

When she asked him if he played for columbine high school, he said no “in such a way that was somewhat exaggerated, but very definite.”

Susan stated that some of the music they listened to was “soft and flowing,” like Enya, but others had “anger expressed.”

She stated that the angry music had lots of yelling, screaming, and banging. Eric described the music to her as “one of [his] favorites.”

As they sat on his bed and listened to music, Susan noticed concert and movie tickets stapled around his window. She stated that she never saw anything suspicious.

At one point, she asked Eric for an aspirin and he left the room to get her one.

At around 10:30pm, Susan’s sister paged her to get home. She stated that Eric made no effort to get up or encourage her to leave.

At one point, Eric asked her if she wanted to go to after-prom with him, but she told him she needed to go home.

At 11pm, Susan left Eric’s house. He kissed her on the cheek and told her she could go out to warm her car up and come back in until it was warm, but she said she needed to get home before she got in trouble.

On april 18th, Susan was working at great clips when Eric’s father came in. He said hello to her and referred to her by her name. She stated that he seemed very happy.

On April 19th, around 10:15am, Susan saw Eric in the school’s parking lot. Eric and another boy waved at her, and Eric walked over to her while the other boy waited. They talked for about five minutes and Eric told her he was ditching class.

Susan said it seemed like something was bothering Eric, like he wasn’t concentrating on things, was anxious, and irritated as though something was disturbing him.

She described the other boy as tall with ear length curly brown hair and a trench coat. She thought it was nate.

Susan stated that it was her habit to go home for lunch and return to school around 11:45am, and that Eric was aware of this because she would frequently see him while walking to her car to leave for lunch.

In response to questions, Susan stated that she did not know Dylan Klebold, but knew eric was friends with Nate Dykeman. She heard of the trench coat mafia and stated that she rarely saw Eric hang out with them in a large group, only with one or two members at a time.

When asked if Eric had any nazi type items in his bedroom, Susan stated that she may have saw a picture of hitler above his bed. She also stated Eric had no tattoos.

Susan stated that about two weeks before the massacre, she saw eric and two other boys intently watching a video as she walked past them in the tech lab. The video depicted boys Eric’s age, wearing camouflage clothing and black bandanas, running with guns through a field.

Susan assumed they were preparing a video for the “friday showing,” when individuals who make their own videos have them run on the closed circuit television system in the school, prior to announcements. She thinks she saw Eric during the friday announcements in the past.

“Susan, sorry. under different circumstances it would’ve been a lot different. i want you to have that fly cd... that’s it. sorry. goodbye.” – eric harris, 4/20/1999

After the massacre, a memory book was put together with pages contributed from students and faculty who expressed their emotions about the tragedy.

Susan decided to contribute to the project with a letter she wrote to Eric:

Eric David Harris, 

I didn't know the person hiding under your smile. I didn't know about the pain you carried in your heart. I didn't know the torture you endured for so long. And I didn't want to believe you were capable of such destruction. I didn't know I could feel such pain for someone I really didn't know. If I knew what your eyes hid, and what your mind was screaming, maybe I could have helped you. I could have loved you. All I know is the pain I am feeling inside. All I know is the person I talked to everyday, the person who seemed happy, the person who always helped me and made sure I had everything I needed. I see your picture on the pages, they say what a monster you are, they say how you were mean and cruel. But you see, I can't believe what they say. I knew the smiling person, the person who helped me. I don't want to hear it anymore. I want it to go away, the angry cries well up in me and I hate you for making me so scared and sad. Leaving me without any explanation. Leaving me with wandering thoughts and hollow cries. Did you try and reach me? Did you try to tell me? I will live with the memories and the unanswered questions I hold in my heart. Not a day will go by that I will not wonder why. As times goes by, I am getting stronger, but then the moment comes when I break down and cry. I am so sorry I didn't see the rage you had inside. I am sorry I was so blind and couldn't see all the things you tried to show me. No matter how wrong you were, I will love the person who smiled and said "Hi" to me everyday. I promise to never forget the person I knew, and forget the person they say you were. 

Love Always and Forever, 

Susan DeWitt

I’m just curious because I know they were very much into PC gaming and Eric showed interest in computer game development, if they ever played Half Life. I have never seen anything other than them playing Doom and Half Life was such a huge hit upon release. Did they ever play it?

Visiting family in Littleton & drove by columbine today.

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Eric David Harris was born on april 9, 1981 in Wichita, Kansas. His parents were Wayne and Kathy Harris.

He had an older brother named kevin who was born on may 14, 1978.

His father was in the air force and his mother stayed at home to raise the boys.

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In 1983, the Harris family moved to huber heights, ohio, where Wayne was stationed at wright-patterson air force base. Eric began going to elementary school in a neighboring town, beavercreek.

In 1987, they moved to beavercreek. Eric attended kindergarten to the 2nd grade here.

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Eric Harris in beavercreek, ohio on Halloween. He was 6 years old.

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In 1989, the family moved to Oscondo, Michigan, where Wayne was an aircraft commander + instructor at wurtsmith air force base. Eric attended 3rd - 5th grade here.

His 5th grade teacher described him as a perfect little fifth grader, an A student, small for his age, and adorable

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Both of his parents attended parent-teacher conferences. wayne was a scout leader and coached sports teams. A neighbor said he put up a basketball backboard in their driveway and played hoops with Eric and Kevin.

Read some of Eric’s writings about living in Oscodo below.

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In 1992, the harris family moved to Plattsburgh, New York, where Wayne served two years with the 380th operations support squadron.

Eric was very upset about this move and having to leave his friends.

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“it doesn’t take long to make a best friend, but it only takes two words to lose one. those are, “we’re moving”,” he wrote.

Eric attended 6th grade and part of 7th grade in Plattsburgh. He was a quiet kid, but he had a lot of friends.

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In the 6th grade, Eric went on a class field trip to Boston. At a restaurant, he ate scrambled-egg pizza and played arcade games with his friends.

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His dad urged him to join little league in april of 1993 to meet other kids. His parents came to every game and practice. Whenever he came up to bat, his dad offered a pat on the back and a little confidence. He would often let the balls zoom past because he didn’t want to miss.

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Kris Otten became Eric’s best friend in Plattsburgh. They would play computer games and build snow forts together. Kris said both of Eric’s parents were usually home and Kathy would always be ready with sandwiches for the boys.

Eric wrote about living in plattsburgh below.

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When Eric learned he was moving to denver, he started to proudly wear a colorado rockies cap.

“you’ve been a good friend,” he wrote in a Adam Pasti’s yearbook, “have a great summer. i’ll send you a shirt from denver. i’m gonna miss all of you.”

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In 1993, the Harris family moved to littleton, co. They rented a home in west elmhurst avenue.

Wayne retired from the military and took a job at flight safety in englewood, where he trained pilots to fly large refueling aircraft. Kathy worked part time at a catering company.

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Eric went to Ken Caryl middle school for the remainder of 7th grade and for 8th grade. He met Dylan Klebold here.

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“At the end of eighth grade, Dylan and Eric were both recognized for their achievement in math. When they walked up to the stage to accept their awards, I whispered to tom that they looked like two peas in a pod.” – sue klebold

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During his freshman year of Columbine, Eric met Brooks Brown on the bus to school and they became friends.

Wayne would drive them to columbine’s football games, where Eric would cheer on his brother.

He met Nate Dykeman in spanish class and introduced him to Brooks and Dylan.

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After eric took Tiffany Typher to homecoming, she broke up with him and he staged his own suicide.

“he had his friend take me over to his house. when i went there, he was laying with his head on a rock, and there was fake blood around him, and he was acting like he was dead.”

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In 1996, the Harris family moved to 8276 south reed street.

Neighborhood kids remember Eric playing street hockey in front of his house. He’d help the family with yardwork on weekends. When he got his driver's license and a 1986 honda, he'd drive slowly and wave to neighbors.

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During his sophomore year at Columbine, friends say Eric changed and his anger began to emerge (due to the bullying).

He started a job at blackjack pizza, where Dylan and Chris Morris, a member of the trench coat mafia, worked. They would often talk about explosives and get into mischief at work.

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Eric, Dylan, and Chris would go on “rebel missions” together, where they would sabotage the houses of people they hated in the middle of the night.

Read more about these below.

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Near the end of his sophomore year, in february of 1997, Eric threw an ice chunk at Brooks Browns’ car after an argument. He cracked the windshield. Brooks demanded that eric pay for the damages.

“kiss my ass brooks, i ain’t paying for shit!” eric yelled.

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During his junior year, he and Dylan were arrested for breaking into a van and stealing electrical equipment. They entered the juvenile diversion program and were required to perform community service and take classes. Eric began to see a psychologist and was prescribed Luvox.

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It was around this time that he started his journal.

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During his senior year at Columbine, he and Dylan made many violent videos for their video class.

“nobody really paid attention to it because it was pretty much normal for these guys,” says a student in their class.

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He and Dylan would go to ‘rock ‘n bowl’ at belleview lanes on friday nights with their friends.

“Eric bowled like an idiot,” Kim Carlin recalled, giggling. “he’d throw it.”

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In April of 1999, Eric celebrated his 18th birthday. He went to a restaurant and went bowling with friends.

Eric was interested in joining the marines and even met with a recruiter, but was rejected due to his medication.

On prom night, he watched event horizon with Susan Dewitt before meeting up with Dylan and other friends at the after prom party.

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“everyone i love, i’m really sorry about all this. i know my mom and dad will be just like... just fucking shocked beyond belief. i’m sorry, all right. i can’t help it. morris, nate, if you guys live, i want you guys to have whatever you want from my room and the computer room.”

“Susan, sorry. Under different circumstances it would’ve been a lot different. i want you to have that fly cd. that’s it. sorry. goodbye.” – eric harris, 4/20/1999

After the massacre, In the book ‘Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the rise of Right-Wing Extremism’ by author Jeffrey Toobin, there’s a small part that mentions what actually happened to Eric’s remains;

Eric’s body was cremated and his cremains are held in an evidence locker in the office of Denver-based private investigator Ellis Armistead

So his parents didn’t claim his body and thereafter his cremains and still haven’t.

He’s just in a box on a shelf all these years later.

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In an additional comment I saw on a Reddit post, someone spoke a little bit more about PI Ellis Armistead.

He was in charge of looking after Eric’s parents in the aftermath of the shooting; the comment citing a specific instance that occurred when going to speak with Eric’s parents

Wayne Harris (Eric’s Father) wanted Eric’s remains flushed down the toilet.

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I know this is never gonna happen, but hypothetically speaking if it did, what would happen to the person who leaked them?

On April 17th 1999, at around 5pm, Dylan was getting ready for prom. Read below for an excerpt from sue’s book about this, including a description of a home video tom filmed shortly before robyn anderson (dylan’s prom date) arrived.

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Sometime between 5:30-6:00pm, Robyn arrived at Dylan’s house. Dylan’s parents took pictures of them together and filmed another home video. Read below for details.

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At about 6pm, Dylan and Robyn left his house. Robyn drove them to Kelli Brown’s house (where the limo was picking them up from). Nate Dykeman, Kristi Epling, and Monica Schuster were also there.

“robyn & he left at about 6, and he has a big night ahead.” – sue

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Around 6:30pm, Dylan, Robyn, and the rest of group all got into the limo. The limo first stopped at Janna’s house, and then Jessica Hughes’ house. After picking them and their dates up, they headed to a restaurant in downtown denver.

Sometime between 6:30-7:00pm, Eric called Susan Dewitt and asked her if she wanted to come over to his house and watch a movie with him. She said yes and drove to his house.

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At around 7pm, Susan Dewitt arrived at Eric’s house. Soon after she arrived, they started watching Event Horizon. He put his arm around her at one point during the movie.

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At 7:45pm, Dylan and his limo group were dropped off at Bella Colibri, a five-star italian restaurant near downtown Denver. Dylan ate a big meal and there was a lot of silly joking. After dinner, Dylan and Nate went outside for a smoke and talked about the future.

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At around 9:30pm, Eric and Susan finished watching event horizon. they spent the next 30-60 minutes talking about other movies and making small talk. At one point, Eric talked about Mike Dinkle making fun of him. According to susan, he seemed hurt rather than angry.

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Around 9:45pm, Dylan and limo group left the restaurant and headed to columbine’s after prom, which was at the denver design center. Read below for details about the ride there.

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At about 10:00-10:30pm, Eric’s parents arrived home from their date (it was their anniversary) and met Susan. Eric and Susan then went downstairs to his room and listened to music. They talked about soccer and Eric got her an aspirin for her headache at one point.

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At 10:15pm, Dylan and his limo group were dropped off at the denver design center, where prom was being held. At one point, he slow danced with Devon Adams to ‘take my breath away’ and kissed her forehead. Friends recall him being in a great mood.

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“at prom, just three days before the shootings, dylan and i danced to take my breath away. i meant to tell him what a good friend he was and how much i cared for him, but i chickened out.“ – devon adams

“he used his flash camera to get into a sort of firefight with another student. the other student’s flash had captured a photo of a smiling klebold.”

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Rachel Scott and Lauren Townsend were also at prom. Rachel’s date was Nick Baumgart. Lauren didn’t have a date, but she went with a bunch of her friends.

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At around 11pm, Susan left Eric’s house. He kissed her on the cheek before she left. Dylan has now been at prom for about 45 minutes. In about an hour and a half, Eric will go to columbine’s after prom to meet up with Dylan and other friends there.

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At 12am, Columbinems prom ended. The limo took Dylan’s group back to Kelli’s house. Robyn and Dylan changed before driving to columbine in her car for the after prom. They will meet other friends there, including Eric.

At 12:30am, Columbine’s after prom started. The theme was “new york, new york.” The gym was decorated with lights and pictures of the city’s skyscrapers and filled with blackjack and poker tables. Parents in vegas costumes served as dealers.

They had ball-toss contests, a jump castle, and a bungee cord plunge. Some parents had built a life-sized maze you had to follow to get into the school, and the entranceway was festooned with cardboard mock-ups of the empire state building and the statue of liberty.

Eric joined Dylan and his limo group. They spent hours in the casino losing fake money. Dylan liked the blackjack tables in particular and spent a lot of time at them.

Eric spent some time at the carnival section. At one point, he was playing a ball-toss game and throwing the balls so violently that the game monitor had to ask him to calm down.

"i hugged him and i picked him up. me and him always pretended we fought. we sucker-punched each other. we were goofing off. he seemed normal to me.” – kim carlin, about seeing eric at columbine’s after prom.

Cassie Bernall didn’t go to prom, but went to the after prom. Cassie and her friend Amanda went to a banquet at the marriott instead of prom.

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Around 3am, Dylan and Robyn left the after prom. Robyn drove Dylan back to Kelly’s house so he could get his tuxedo.

At around 4am, Robyn drops Dylan off at home. The rest of the group was going to get breakfast, but he wanted to go home and go to bed. Sue gets out of bed and talks to Dylan. He shows her a nearly full flask and tells her she can trust him. Read below for more details from Sue.

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These pictures are from columbine’s 2011 after-prom, but they can give you an idea of how the 1999 one may have looked.

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Sue Klebold said that when Dylan was born, she felt a premonition he would cause something horrible in the future. "It was as if a bird of prey had passed overhead, casting us into shadow. Looking down at the perfect bundle in my arms, I was overcome by a strong premonition: this child would bring me a terrible sorrow."

On the day of the shooting, Rachel drew in her journal 13 tears turning into blood droplets, and she also included a Bible verse, which writes, "Greater love has no man than this, that a man would lay his life down for his friends" (John 15:13) Additionally, people who knew her said it was as if she knew she would die that day, as she was acting differently.

Something chilling i just found is something from a forum post about 8 years ago. Someone claims a speaker came to their school, and said a man had a dream where Rachel cried, and a plant was grown from the tears, although I don’t know if this is real for sure. Are there any more survivors/victims who had premonitions you know of, or just weird, unexplainable coincidences with columbine?

I just read Sue Klebold's book recently. I have no desire to shame her. I think she tried reasonably hard to conceal her bias but it slipped through a lot. I also don't blame her all that much because she wrote how the first few months after the shooting she sort of mentally cocooned herself by believing Dylan was forced or tricked into the shooting, and when she found out the truth, it shattered her. So my perception/theory is that she either bought into or created the "Psychopathic Killer/Suicidal Follower" narrative to sort of try to rebuild a part of the cocoon that tided her through the first few months so it can tide her through the rest of her life.

That said, she speaks many times about how people look for simple reasons to complex questions such as why the shooting was done, but to the contrary, after spending some time learning about the immense discourse over it, I think people including Sue here sought and gave complex answers to simple questions.

My personal belief is that psychology of mass murderers (most cold-blooded murderers for that matter) is so far beyond the comprehension of normal, morally adjusted people that it's a futile effort for us to try too hard to extrapolate our own feelings and values onto them. For example, Sue thinks Dylan was feeling some sort of regret because he was looking sheepish when she hugged him and told him she loved him. But well, that's the sort of reasoning a normal person makes. "If I were going to do something this bad and my mom told me she loved me, this is surely what I'd do, so I bet he was feeling the same." But we can't fundamentally come to that conclusion because we are never going to do something that bad. I know many experts believe they have special insights into the minds of evil people, but I think (and I admit it makes me a bit anti-intellectual) it's like a microscopic ant on a 2D plane trying to figure out what a 3D object dropped in front of them means. He could've felt guilt, he could've been trying to be deceitful, he could've simply been bored and wanted to end the interaction, he could've been trying to play the role he thought was his in the movie that was his life - it could've been any number of things. She couldn't have figured it out. None of us can. The gulf that a normal person crosses when they decide to kill innocents for fun is so vast it separates them from everything we assume to be human.

Which is why I think the whole thing is a lot simpler than it is complex - two young men went through the tribulations that billions of other young men have gone through, but, with the use of progressively incomprehensible patterns of thinking (definitely exacerbated by mental illness), they reasoned themselves into becoming so evil they launched themselves out of the realm of understanding of most people.

I was watching a youtube documentary on columbine and it got me thinking! Who were the people that were with Mr sanders? I was wondering if they ever said what they went through. Does anybody have any info?

Random Columbine Facts

• If Eric could change one thing about himself it would be his weight

• When Dylan was a sophomore, he volunteered at a day care. sue remembers him helping little kids line up neatly to take their turns on the swing

• Eric and Dylan’s manager had a six year old daughter who was often there while they worked. She loved them and their manager said they treated her very well.

• When one of eric’s neighbours lost her puppy, he looked for it and brought it back to her

• Eric would help his mom garden

• Eric and Dylan went to two rammstein concerts together. they were on december 8th, 1997 and may 1st, 1998. KMFDM opened for the first one.

• Dylan used the the Breman Bold font for his wrath shirt. We’re unsure what Eric used but it could potentially be Massacre.

• Dylan picked out his cat, rocky, from a litter of kittens when he was in 3rd grade

• Dylan’s favorite baseball player was Roger Clemens

• At blackjack, Eric made $7.65 an hour and Dylan made $6.50 an hour

• Eric had $113 in his wallet at the time of his death

• For his english class, Eric chose these three books to read and write an essay about. Return from the stars was his favorite one.

• According to a Jennifer Harmon, a girl in Eric and Dylan’s creative writing class, Dylan would pass out chips ahoy cookies during this class as an attempt to make friends. she said they were “the chewy kind with big chocolate chunks.”

• During the basement tapes, Dylan pumped a shotgun and pointed it at Eric, who was filming, making him scream “jesus christ, put the fucking safety on!”

• During the massacre, Eric and Dylan had match strikers taped to their forearms so they could easily light their bombs. they are visible in this photo from the evidence exhibit. you can also see the tape on Dylan’s wrist in the suicide photo.

• Eric and Dylan had other nicknames besides Reb and Vodka. Eric’s were indigo, reverend, and war. Dylan’s were green and death.

• After they committed suicide, Eric had 18 9mm bullets and 14 shotguns shells left. Dylan had 3 9mm bullets and 14 shotgun shells left.

• On March 14, 1998, Dylan got a ticket for failing to stop at a red light. He had to go to court for it on april 29. he wrote, “red light court. dam ni**az better not take me license.”

• Two months before columbine, Eric’s dog was seriously ill. Dylan picked up Eric’s shift at blackjack so he could stay home and be with his dog. Sue felt sad for Eric and told Dylan she was proud of him for being such a good friend.

• After the massacre, Kevin harris told friends he blamed himself because he went away to college and wasn’t around to help his brother cope with whatever problems he was having.

• The morning after the massacre, Wayne Harris phoned the family dentist. Eric had an appointment on june 30th and he needed to cancel it.

• Eric was not Dylan’s first choice for NBK. He originally wanted to do it by himself, with a girl, or with (presumably) Zack Heckler.

• Devon Adams said Sue wore Dylan’s jeans after his death.

• Dylan’s parents bought his car on December 26, 1998.

• The only person on their shitlists who got shot was Austin Eubanks. Austin was friends with Corey Depooter. He died in 2019 due to an opioid addiction.

• When Eric lived in Michigan, his dad was a scout leader and helped coach sports teams. he played basketball in their driveway with Eric and Kevin. His mom helped his 5th grade class make special shirts for halloween. Both his parents always attended the parent-teacher conferences

• A few weeks before the massacre, Dylan was banned from using the school computers because he called a librarian a bitch after she asked him to pay for printing over 10 pages. When told he was banned, he just said, “well, you know, it doesn’t matter. it doesn’t matter.”

• Dylan was friends with Rachel Scott’s prom date, Nick Baumgart, between 3-5th and 7-8th grade (Eric was also friends with him 7-8th). In the basement tapes, Eric said he laughed too much and “those two girls sitting next to you probably want you to shut the fuck up too”.

• Eric, Dylan, and Zach Heckler also targeted Nick’s house during a Rebel Mission on February 7, 1997. Eric described what they did to his house and their reasoning for targeting him in his writings.

• Brandi Tinklenburg, the girl in the Eric In Columbine video, would study in the library every tuesday morning during her lunch hour. The only reason she wasn’t there the day of the massacre was because she went to the tanning salon instead.

• The only reason cameras were installed in columbine’s cafeteria was to catch students who left trash on the tables.

• Dylan’s locker number was 837 and his combo was 19-37-9. And Eric’s locker number was 624 and his combo was 16-48-30.

• Eric wrote “anniversary card” in his school planner under april 17, 1998 to remind himself to get his parents a card for their 28th wedding anniversary.

• When police arrived at Eric’s house after the massacre and tried to go in his room, Kathy Harris tried to stop them. she said, “i don’t want you to go in there.” The officers persisted and she complied.

• Dylan’s body was released to Horan & Mccontay funeral home. services were on april 24th, 1999 at 1:30pm. 8-10 people attended.

• Eric’s body was released to aspen funeral home. No services were provided. It is unknown if the harris family had a private funeral for Eric or not.

• Eric got surgery to correct his pectus excavatum on December 16th 1993 at Fitzsimons Army Medical Centre in Aurora, co. He wrote, “when i got back from the hospital, i couldn’t do anything that involved using my chest muscles. that meant i barely could even laugh.”

• Dylan was going to major in computer science at the university of Arizona. Eric was almost positive he didn’t want to go to a 4 year college, but he told a friend he might go to a 2 year college and “major in computer graphics or something.”

• Eric knew he was rejected by the marines. Nate Dykeman said, “Dylan and I were the first ones Eric told about the rejection. He asked me, ‘where do I go from there?’ he saw it as a last option.”

• Dylan’s SAT score was 1210. He got 560 on the verbal part and 650 on the math part, putting him in the 75th percentile.

• During the massacre, eric or dylan (probably dylan) was heard saying, “today is the day the world comes to an end, today is the day we die,” in the cafeteria.

• Eric and Dylan both dated the same girl, Sasha Jacobs. She went on 1-2 dates with Dylan and stopped because there was “something strange” about him. Then she went on 16-20 dates with Eric over a period of four months before also breaking up with him. After she broke up with him, Eric wrote in Chad Laughlin’s yearbook about her. She also started to receive threats in her email which she suspected were from Eric.

• Eric’s favorite magazines were Guns and Ammo, Penthouse, and Time.

• Dylan was born at the lutheran medical center in wheat ridge, co.

• Wayne Harris believed Brooks Brown was out to get Eric and that he was a “manipulative con artist.” He wrote “Eric is not at fault,” him and Kathy felt victimized too, and they didn’t want to be accused “everytime something supposedly happens.”

• Eric scored a 46 on the marine recruitment asvab test, which is an average score.

• Starting when he was 8 months old and until he was about 1 and a half years old, Eric went to the doctor at least 11 times due to a congenital leg problem. It wasn’t elaborated on in his medical records, but his walk appears to have been bow-legged.

• Wilder Wien by RAMMSTEIN played in the original hitmen for hire during the scenes where Eric and Dylan were walking in their trench coats, but jeffco silenced the music (presumably) because of copyright.

• Mike Vendegnia (the guy in the white shirt in the Eric in columbine video) was friends with Corey Depooter. Mike described Corey as “very bright and easy to get along with.”

• Dylan tore off the bmw emblems on the front and back of his car. Zack Rissmiller said he did this, and after the massacre, police found the emblems in his glovebox.

• A witness in the cafeteria heard Eric or Dylan yell “check the window” and “one’s coming in” as they were trying to detonate the bombs. They were likely anticipating that cops would enter the school at any second and were as shocked as everyone else was that they weren’t coming.

• Eric’s phone number was 303-762-1212.

• Dylan’s phone number was 303-972-1131.

• Valeen Schnurr was holding hands with Lauren Townsend as she passed away.

• Dylan paid between $200 and $300 for his sunglasses.

• During the shooting, librarian Peggy Dodd told Brian Anderson, “i have to get out of here, they hate me, they’re going to kill me.” a few weeks before the massacre, Dylan called her a bitch when she asked him to pay for using the printer.

• Dylan told a classmate that the reason he wore a soviet pin on his boot was “just to get a reaction out of people.”

• When Eric applied to tortilla wraps, he listed his english teacher, Mr. Webb, and Sue Klebold as references.

• One christmas, Sue fretted because Dylan wanted a collectible baseball card that cost as much as she had planned to spend on all his gifts. She worried about only having one gift under the tree. but that's what Dylan wanted, and that's all he got.

• Some of Dylan’s favourite foods were scrambled egg, pizza, beef stew, lasagna, pumpkin pie spice cake and Dr Pepper as his favourite drink.

• Before Austin Eubanks left the library, he checked Corey Depooter for a pulse and detected no signs of life.

• Eric and Dylan threw a total of 31 bombs inside the library, but only 5 of them actually exploded.

• Neither Eric or Dylan wanted to have kids. Eric said, “i don’t think i would want to bring a child into this world.” Dylan said, “i’m never having kids. kids just mess up your life.”

• A total of 76 bombs were found inside and outside of columbine high school. Only 30 of those bombs actually exploded.

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So I always hear during this supposed “quiet time” that both Eric and Dylan made eye contact with several students/teachers through classroom/office doors, windows etc.

I’ve never been able to find any names of people that actually made eye contact with them.

I’ve gone through some of the 11 K and tried to read information from witnesses from other classrooms, but have never stumbled on actual names or statements specifically mentioning it.

Does anybody know some of the names? I’d love to read their statements.

Thanks in advance.

If I’m not wrong, Brooks was yelling at Eric for missing their test, and then Eric tells him “Brooks, I like you now. Get out of here, go home.” And Brooks remembers walking away and down the street and hearing a popping noise or a staple gun.

One sad thing I just randomly thought about and realized is that the families of the 12 student victims have had to watch their children’s friends grow up, graduate, go to college, get married, have children, etc. But their children are forever frozen in time. And Dave never got to see his grandchildren reach their milestones. It’s so unfair. Thoughts?