The classmate believed the guns would be using for hunting. Before Columbine happened, Klebold had no idea the boys had been training at a shooting range. After Columbine, Klebold said she refused to believe her son had helped plan the attack and had been a willing participant.
Detectives showed them a timeline of the day, and in her book, Klebold made herself examine every shot her son fired and the people he killed. They were acting tough. They were talking about all the horrible things they were planning to do. It was vile. She said she and her husband asked Dylan about the paper twice but when she said he told her he didn't have it, they let it go.
Let's take a look at this young person. Looking back, Klebold believes if she had realized something was wrong with her son, she could have prevented him from carrying out the Columbine massacre. He would have gotten help. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. Whoopi Goldberg celebrates birthday by sharing her favorite things 2 hours ago.
Trump's former chief of staff fails to show for Jan. Once outside, they strapped on their arsenals. Each boy had a semiautomatic, a shotgun in his bag, and a backpack full of pipe bombs. This is probably the moment they set the timers on their car bombs. It would just be a matter of seconds now and hundreds of kids would die. The timers were winding down. The bombers spent a minute or two by their cars. The diversionary bomb should have blown three miles away. In fact, it had fizzled.
As far as Eric and Dylan knew, cops were speeding south. At Some kids were strolling outside, settling on the lawn for a picnic. No sign of disturbance. The timing devices, alarm clocks, were not precise but they should have detonated by now.
Students streamed out of the school, hopped into their cars and zipped away. Time for Plan B. There was no Plan B. Eric had staggering confidence in himself, he had no plan for contingencies.
Dylan left no indication that he planned much of anything. They could just proceed to Act II: mow down the departing students in a crossfire. They still could have topped McVeigh, but they didn't. The failure of the bomb to explode appears to have rattled one of the boys.
Either might have panicked but Eric, unlike Dylan, was unflappable. Eric apparently acted swiftly to retrieve his emotional partner.
Within two minutes, he had realised the bombs had failed, grabbed his packs, crossed the lot to Dylan's car, rushed with him to the building, and climbed the external stairs to the west exit. That's the first place they were observed, at They opened the duffel bags at the top of the stairs and pulled out the shotguns.
They locked and loaded the semiautomatics. One of them yelled, "Go! Dylan cheered him on. He rarely fired. They hit people walking among the trees, picnickers to the south, kids coming up the stairs to the east. They tossed pipe bombs down the stairs, into the grass, and on to the roof. Rachel Scott and her friend Richard Castaldo were the first down. They had been eating their lunch on the grass. Eric shot Richard in the arms and torso, and Rachel in the chest and head.
Rachel died instantly. Richard played dead. Danny Rohrbough and his buddies Lance Kirklin and Sean Graves were heading up the dirt path towards the stairs. They saw the gunmen firing, but assumed it was a paintball game or a prank. It looked like fun. They rushed straight toward the shooters. Danny made it halfway up the stairs.
Eric pivoted and fired his carbine rifle. A shot tore through Danny's left knee. He stumbled and began to fall. Eric fired again and again. Lance tried to catch Danny as he fell, but realised he had been hit, too, in the chest, leg and foot. Danny died almost instantaneously. Lance blacked out, but continued to breathe. Sean felt a couple of pricks.
He did not realise he had been shot. He looked around. Both his friends were down. Dylan made his way down the hill, toward him. Someone ran out of the cafeteria to help Sean, who ended up propped in the entrance. A janitor held Sean's hand, said he would stay with him, but he had to help kids escape first.
He advised Sean to play dead. Sean did. A stampede was under way. The lunch crowd had panicked. Most took cover under tables; some ran for the stairs. About were caught on the staircase, racing for cover on the second floor. Dylan took a few steps and lifted his weapon to firing position.
For the second time, he appeared to lose his nerve. He swept his rifle in an arc across the room. He watched the students disappear up the stairs. He did not fire. Instead he rejoined Eric at the top of the external staircase. It's not clear why Dylan made his excursion into the cafeteria. Perhaps to see what went wrong with the bombs? But he never went near them.
He made no attempt at detonation. It's more likely that Eric sent him in to build up the body count. By the time Dylan rejoined Eric, they had used up all the easy targets.
Everybody caught outside had run or hidden. One last group was still in the open. These students had fled across the soccer field. Eric had a go at them. He applied to and won a place at the University of Arizona. Three days before the shooting, he attended his high school prom with a girl. There was one odd incident. Later, she apologised to him. I remark to her that it was a chilling exchange.
It was also, clearly, a threat. Klebold says she was never frightened of Dylan, but there is a sense, around that time, that she was walking on eggshells. I listened to what he said; he asked me to stop, I stopped. And then we circled back and we both apologised. I attributed it to being an adolescent, and it is my deep regret that those behaviours might have indicated something else: depression, perhaps. That is why I say to people: if your children misbehave, if a young man is irritable, if your daughter has a lot of somatic complaints, this could be a mental issue.
We have to be able to ask questions such as, do you wish you could just die sometimes? Have you ever thought about suicide? How can the Basement Tapes make her angry with him and not the fact that he perpetrated a massacre? If you explained suicide to a child, [you might say] your grandfather died because he got sick in his brain and hurt grandma and then he hurt himself.
The Dylan I knew and raised was a kind person. He was thoughtful. He was conscious-ridden, which is why this is still so difficult for me to understand. W hen Dylan Klebold left the house that morning, he yelled goodbye in a tone that gave his mother pause. Was he saying to me, you were a bad mother?
But Dylan never showed up. Instead, he met Eric Harris and the two of them made their way to the school carrying guns and explosives. She was at work when her husband rang, telling her there had been an incident at the school and yelling at her to turn on the TV. And so the spiral began. They fled their house.
Tom told his wife he wished Dylan had killed them, too. There was also a lot of rage simmering under the surface as well, which appeared in the violent essays he wrote for English class and the stories and poems he wrote for his creative writing class — all of which often featured blood, death and war.
They acquired guns and made pipe bombs. The fourth weapon came from a co-worker at the pizza place. They believed that their actions would bring them fame as well as vengeance. They even discussed which director should handle the film version of their attack.
They roamed the school for less than an hour, killing 12 students and a teacher and wounding more than 20 others. The rampage ended after 12 p. The shootings sent shockwaves through the community and the world at large.
Deeply disturbed by the attack, the governor of Colorado appointed a special commission to study the events of that tragic day. The commission looked for ways to improve the handling of such crisis situations as did many other schools and states across the country.
Unfortunately, other young shooters would follow in their footsteps, and some of them, including Seung-Hui Cho , would mention Harris and Klebold as part of their deadly inspiration.
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