The Debrief With MyronGainesX - Fed Explains Columbine Shooting

00:00:00.760 And we are live. What's up, guys? Welcome to FedReacts. Today we're going to be covering the Columbine High School Massacre.

00:00:06.800 As you guys know, this is probably one of the most famous, probably the first big school shooting in American history.

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00:00:37.160 So Columbine High School Massacre, commonly referred to as Columbine, was a school shooting and attempted bombing that occurred on April 20th, 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States.

00:00:48.880 The perpetrators, 12th grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher.

00:00:55.480 10 students were killed in the school library where Harrison Klebold subsequently committed suicide.

00:01:00.860 21 additional people were injured by gunshots and gunfire was also exchanged with the police.

00:01:05.380 Another three people were injured trying to escape.

00:01:07.780 At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting at a high school in U.S. history until it was surpassed by the Parkland High School shooting in February 2018.

00:01:14.720 It is also the deadliest mass shooting in the state of Colorado.

00:01:18.080 And, guys, I'm older, so I'm old enough to remember this.

00:01:21.700 This happened when I was nine years old as a kid.

00:01:24.060 This hit the news like crazy.

00:01:26.560 School shootings were something that weren't heard of back then, guys.

00:01:29.480 So, you know, sadly, in today's day and age, in 2023, they're all too common.

00:01:33.540 But back then, guys, you know, when people had some semblance of what reality was, we didn't live in this clown world that we live in now, school shootings were a big thing.

00:01:44.180 So mass shootings weren't a thing like that back in the late 90s.

00:01:47.580 So, yeah, this definitely was crazy.

00:01:51.540 Eminem had talked about this.

00:01:52.740 I think Marilyn Manson, they got blamed for this shooting.

00:01:55.680 So, yeah.

00:01:57.200 But anyway, we got a documentary to react to here, guys.

00:01:59.320 The Tees Behind the Columbine High School Killing Spree from Absolute Documentaries.

00:02:04.300 Let's go ahead and get right into it, man.

00:02:05.560 And we'll be pausing and giving y'all some commentary throughout.

00:02:08.060 So, let's go.

00:02:13.400 In 1999, students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would embark on a massacre.

00:02:20.860 They look crazy.

00:02:21.940 That would make history. 0.99

00:02:23.820 We're getting shot all around me.

00:02:26.060 And the name of one Colorado high school, synonymous with tragedy.

00:02:32.420 Children were running from the school at breakneck speeds.

00:02:36.120 And I knew that the world had changed.

00:02:38.800 As the clock ticked.

00:02:40.180 The body count rose.

00:02:45.860 They would pop underneath a table.

00:02:47.880 They would say something like peek-a-boo. 0.99

00:02:49.280 And they would shoot someone.

00:02:50.960 And with it the question, why have these two young men waged war on their classmates and teachers?

00:02:57.760 A bullet entered the side of my backpack, spun around and actually shot me in the back.

00:03:03.020 And committed the world's most notorious killing spree.

00:03:07.100 What caused them to have so much hatred?

00:03:10.020 They were willing to walk in and kill as many people as possible.

00:03:15.860 In 1999, the area of Columbine on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, had been the epitome of ordinary.

00:03:34.440 It's a suburban area.

00:03:38.440 It's pretty quiet.

00:03:40.200 Not a lot of crime.

00:03:41.780 It's overwhelmingly white, middle class, which is to say a very homogeneous place.

00:03:49.860 I think it means homogenous, but that's fine.

00:03:52.440 In 1999, would bring the unremarkable neighborhood worldwide notoriety.

00:03:58.220 You know, April 20th of 1999 was a typical day.

00:04:07.560 I was eager to get my grades bumped up because I was 15 at the time.

00:04:12.920 So getting a driver's permit was definitely on the horizon.

00:04:16.720 The morning definitely was just a regular day.

00:04:19.200 Starting my shift, I was an emergency response specialist.

00:04:22.800 Okay, now one dispatcher from back then.

00:04:25.500 Specialist.

00:04:26.020 I just took regular phone calls to the sheriff's office, as well as 911 phone calls.

00:04:32.520 Normal day, we had ran a couple, you know.

00:04:35.540 And do you know a little bit about why these guys committed the shooting, right?

00:04:38.520 That the media didn't report?

00:04:40.460 Yeah.

00:04:41.340 You want to tell them now or?

00:04:43.560 I just saw a comment that people, the people are commenting now.

00:04:48.340 If you look on Twitter, there is like a dark side of this Columbine shooting, like you'll see pictures and everything.

00:04:54.460 But there was a person that said that the media didn't put this out.

00:04:58.400 Is that these guys, actually, I can explain later because I will kind of like spoil.

00:05:03.680 Okay, fair enough, fair enough.

00:05:05.080 We will, we'll get into it.

00:05:07.860 Yeah.

00:05:08.280 For y'all.

00:05:09.200 Basic calls, medical calls.

00:05:12.760 It was just like any other day.

00:05:15.160 I went off to work.

00:05:17.540 I was leaving that day for a conference in another part of our state.

00:05:22.500 Tom's 15-year-old son made his way to Columbine High School.

00:05:27.660 Daniel was a very shy kid.

00:05:32.240 Very shy, very reserved, very sweet, a very lovable kid.

00:05:36.860 He was someone who, even as a teenager, was not ashamed to give his mom a big hug.

00:05:44.260 For fellow students, 16-year-old Craig Scott and his 17-year-old sister, Rachel, the morning had not started harmoniously.

00:05:54.500 My sister was in the car.

00:05:56.140 She was honking her horn because I was making us late. 1.00

00:06:01.720 And I had to have my hair just perfect.

00:06:04.640 And we got into the car together.

00:06:09.160 And she was kind of getting on to me about being late.

00:06:13.280 And we got into an argument.

00:06:14.700 This is the road that Rachel and I were on together to go to school.

00:06:23.700 And Rachel would pull into here to drop me off. 1.00

00:06:29.720 She was just asking me not to make us late all the time.

00:06:32.420 And so we were kind of back and forth in an argument.

00:06:36.640 And we pulled up to the school.

00:06:39.580 And I got out of the car.

00:06:41.020 And I turned and I looked at her.

00:06:42.520 And I slammed the car door shut.

00:06:45.520 And I walked into school.

00:06:46.920 I had no idea that would be the last time that I'd see Rachel alive. 1.00

00:06:52.620 Damn, that sucks, man. 1.00

00:06:54.240 If you're a last memory with your sibling to be you guys getting in a fight, that sucks. 1.00

00:06:59.260 Yeah. 0.57

00:07:02.420 Around 11.19 a.m., Columbine School, West Entrance.

00:07:14.440 Sean Graves and his friend's world was about to change forever.

00:07:19.100 For lunch, there was three of us that day that chose not to eat.

00:07:24.680 Dan Robaugh, Lance Kirkland and myself.

00:07:27.360 We stepped out the side door like we typically would.

00:07:30.900 We'd usually grab a soda at the vending machines right there.

00:07:33.740 And we'd just jet up and take the path off.

00:07:37.060 Only that morning, things were a little different.

00:07:41.660 We were looking up at the top of the dirt hill.

00:07:43.780 And we saw two guys that were wearing all black, their black trench coats.

00:07:49.420 And with them, they were carrying it.

00:07:51.140 Oh, man. 1.00

00:07:52.240 Oh, shit! 1.00

00:07:52.900 Oh, shit! 1.00

00:07:53.040 Do you imagine? 1.00

00:07:53.800 Like, you're in high school and you're like, oh, yeah, it's lunch break.

00:07:56.240 Just got myself a little Coca-Cola, Diet Coke.

00:07:58.700 Because they didn't have Coke Zero back then, 99.

00:08:00.760 Next thing you know, you see two dudes with trench coats wearing all black.

00:08:04.680 A couple of black duffel bags.

00:08:05.520 Yeah, you'll see me with that sound effect. 0.96

00:08:06.520 You're carrying black duffel bags like, what the hell? 0.71

00:08:09.100 What? 0.71

00:08:09.960 Yeah, okay.

00:08:11.040 You see me, like, with the sound effect running.

00:08:13.620 Yeah, you turn into Goku at that point.

00:08:15.660 Yeah, that one.

00:08:17.120 We witnessed them loading weapons that we just assumed were toys.

00:08:22.900 And that's when it started.

00:08:25.640 And I know some of y'all are like, wait, you saw them loading up weapons?

00:08:28.260 You didn't do nothing?

00:08:28.800 Guys, you got to remember, in 1999, school shootings were unheard of.

00:08:32.480 It's not like today, that day and age, where, you know, everyone and their mom is, you know,

00:08:36.000 doing mass shootings.

00:08:36.860 Like, back then, this was unprecedented, unheard of, completely within, not within the realm

00:08:45.000 of reality of a student bringing a firearm to a school.

00:08:49.700 You know, this is craziness.

00:08:52.260 So, I could see why he would be skeptical back then, because it just wasn't a thing.

00:08:56.680 Obviously, nowadays, right, with the crazy amount of mass shooters that have emerged

00:09:00.440 after this, you know, you would think twice.

00:09:02.940 But back then, hey, you'd be like, oh, what are these guys doing, man?

00:09:05.920 Are they going to do the acting class or something?

00:09:10.940 They showered us with rounds.

00:09:13.600 And Dan and Lance both went down.

00:09:19.400 They weren't playing around.

00:09:20.520 They started shooting at them immediately.

00:09:22.720 One floor above, in the library, Craig and his friend Matt were sitting revising.

00:09:29.760 You know, we thought that we were hearing fireworks.

00:09:34.140 We saw students running away from the school.

00:09:37.840 They were trekking through the soccer field.

00:09:41.400 You know, we thought that, you know, as a senior prank, it's about that time for the end 0.77

00:09:46.640 of the year for some silly prank to happen. 0.79

00:09:49.280 It was a tradition. 0.80

00:09:52.160 But this was no prank.

00:09:54.400 A nightmare that would shock the world had just begun.

00:09:58.260 11.19 a.m.

00:10:07.780 On the 20th of April.

00:10:09.300 We can speed it up a little bit.

00:10:13.400 FedReact style.

00:10:15.340 1999.

00:10:16.400 A deadly killing spree had begun at Columbine High School in Colorado.

00:10:21.600 Outside the school cafeteria.

00:10:22.880 And if you guys are watching this on the playback, just slow the speed down to 0.75 and it'll

00:10:28.680 bring it back to normal.

00:10:29.500 20-year-old student Sean Graves and his friends Dan and Lance were being fired on by two teenagers

00:10:35.300 dressed in black trench coats.

00:10:37.580 My body was completely behind a concrete wall, so I was protected.

00:10:42.840 The only thing on me that was sticking past that was my backpack.

00:10:46.700 A bullet entered the side of my backpack, spun around and actually shot me in the back

00:10:50.480 and shot out my right hip. 0.95

00:10:52.020 And at that moment, I lost my legs completely.

00:10:56.300 I was paralyzed from the waist down immediately.

00:11:04.780 What Sean had originally thought was a prank was far from it.

00:11:10.000 I found myself laying halfway in the school and halfway out.

00:11:13.100 And at that moment, I knew that my worst nightmare had come true.

00:11:16.520 Months, possibly years before the shooting actually took place, I had a rear cover.

00:11:20.480 I had a recurring nightmare of somebody in my family or even myself being paralyzed.

00:11:25.520 It didn't make any sense then.

00:11:28.700 But the second I looked back at my legs, I realized that that dream had come true.

00:11:32.320 And I was the one that was going to be paralyzed.

00:11:36.120 Sean lay in the doorway of the cafeteria.

00:11:38.820 And for hundreds of students inside, the reality of what was happening was beginning to sink in.

00:11:43.680 Oh, wow.

00:11:44.400 All I remember from that moment was just the fear in their eyes looking at me.

00:11:47.660 And I'm sure I had fear looking back.

00:11:50.160 And that's when the fire alarm went off and the cafeteria started to evacuate.

00:11:57.980 It's crazy that it's 1999 and there's still black and white footage, man.

00:12:00.960 Over the prior year, the two mystery shooters had made several extraordinary videos.

00:12:19.600 Both spoof and serious, that were chillingly similar to the spree to come.

00:12:27.740 The violent, merciless attacks played out in the videos had now become a reality.

00:12:32.960 The two shooters walked down to try and finish off everyone. 0.65

00:12:36.640 And I watched one of the shooters shoot Lance in the face.

00:12:41.640 Wow.

00:12:43.680 At Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, Detective Kate Batten was just returning from an early lunch. 0.99

00:12:49.320 I asked what was going on.

00:12:50.260 They said that there was a shooting at Columbine High School.

00:12:52.580 So at that point, I started driving towards Columbine.

00:12:57.160 And that's when it became surreal.

00:13:00.200 Because the dispatcher was talking about snipers on the roof.

00:13:04.080 They were talking about bombs exploding.

00:13:07.100 Oh, those are the worst kinds of calls, man.

00:13:09.260 You get crazy stuff like that.

00:13:10.420 And I'm just astounded that this is information that's being relayed in suburban Littleton.

00:13:18.660 My secretary ran in.

00:13:20.780 The door was shut.

00:13:21.500 And she said, there's been a report of shootings or gunfire and bombs exploding.

00:13:25.460 And I'm thinking, what are you talking about?

00:13:28.100 I came out of my office and I ran down here.

00:13:31.680 And as I looked down the corridor, I saw a gunman coming towards me with the shotgun.

00:13:37.020 When I was staring down and I made contact, it seemed like the size of a cannon.

00:13:42.860 And all I kept thinking is what it was going to feel like to be shot.

00:13:48.060 You know, I thought of my family.

00:13:49.440 Was I going to die quickly?

00:13:50.640 Each time a bullet was fired from the gun, then glass would shatter behind me.

00:13:56.800 I hear bullets exploding in that area.

00:13:59.580 And what really probably saved my life is girls coming out of the gymnasium in this crossing hall. 1.00

00:14:05.840 They were coming into the crossfire and I wanted to make sure that they were not hit by the gunman's gunfire.

00:14:10.720 I ran down to this hallway and I was able to get the girls into the gymnasium area. 1.00

00:14:17.940 Shout out to him, man.

00:14:19.000 So I don't think they're going to say this in the documentary, but the plan of these guys was to, and I'll give more insight about them later.

00:14:28.500 But the plan of these guys were to put, like, set up bombs inside the school and outside the school in each of the students' cars and, like, teachers.

00:14:37.640 So the bombs inside the school will explode at 11 o'clock in the morning and the ones outside will explode at 12.

00:14:46.460 And the strategy was that.

00:14:49.420 The first bombs to explode.

00:14:52.460 So whenever the emergency cars and, like, the ambulances and the police cars will be already at 12 o'clock at the school, the other bombs will explode so everyone could get hurt and it will be, like, a complete chaos.

00:15:04.460 But the bombs didn't explode.

00:15:06.340 It was 11.23 and the bombs didn't explode, so they just entered and started doing that.

00:15:11.280 Does that show in the diagram you sent me or no?

00:15:14.440 No, I don't think so.

00:15:14.980 Okay, it doesn't show in that diagram?

00:15:16.080 It will show you the timelines, but it will tell you, like, what I'm telling you right now.

00:15:20.260 All right, gotcha.

00:15:20.960 So, yeah, the bombs didn't explode at 11.23, which is when the guys just decided to go inside and just start the killing spree.

00:15:30.140 That's what happened.

00:15:31.240 Crazy.

00:15:32.020 Yeah. 0.96

00:15:32.280 Crazy, crazy, man. 0.99

00:15:34.220 That was their plan. 0.99

00:15:35.000 And they initiated the bombs after, of course.

00:15:37.120 My daughter's saying he's chasing us with a gun.

00:15:38.940 And I hung up the phone and you could hear the screaming in the hallway.

00:15:42.040 Yeah.

00:15:42.200 Six weeks earlier, March the 16th, 1999, in the mountains south of Columbine.

00:15:52.800 The two shooters recorded another video.

00:15:56.380 This time, the weapons were real.

00:16:00.680 That's a slug. 0.75

00:16:02.040 Imagine that someone's brain.

00:16:03.340 Both were students at Columbine High School, just weeks away from graduating.

00:16:09.540 Entry, exit.

00:16:12.100 17-year-old Dylan Klebold.

00:16:16.560 And 18-year-old Eric Harris.

00:16:20.620 No, no, no.

00:16:21.760 Harris was a young man that was in advanced classes.

00:16:27.700 You know, he had dreams of going to the military.

00:16:29.660 He was going to be applied or to enlist in the Marines.

00:16:33.280 Klebold was a kid who, a few weeks prior, had visited one of the state universities in Arizona.

00:16:39.040 So his plan was to go to college.

00:16:40.580 Klebold was at prom three nights prior.

00:16:43.180 Wow.

00:16:43.420 Now, both Harris and Klebold seemed intent on the destruction of the school and everyone in it.

00:16:48.400 By 11.27 a.m., the two shooters were in an area near the library, where Craig Scott and numerous fellow students were working.

00:16:58.600 We're hearing the firecrackers.

00:17:00.740 We're thinking that it's a prank.

00:17:01.860 We're laughing.

00:17:02.520 We're joking about it.

00:17:04.780 And then that's when a teacher ran into the room. 1.00

00:17:08.280 She ran over to the phone.

00:17:09.640 She got on the phone to call the police.

00:17:11.620 Jefferson County, 911.

00:17:12.500 The phone rings, and, you know, I had a caller on the other end of the line who stated that something was happening at Columbine High School.

00:17:19.840 There was a student here with a gun.

00:17:21.360 He had shot out a window.

00:17:22.620 There was children in the library, and she wanted to, obviously, you know, protect them and take care of them.

00:17:28.720 Head on to the table, kid.

00:17:30.080 Head on to the table.

00:17:31.340 She saw the shots happen.

00:17:32.440 She knew this was serious.

00:17:33.200 She knew this was real.

00:17:33.960 Okay.

00:17:34.540 We've got help on the way, ma'am.

00:17:35.680 Okay.

00:17:36.160 Okay.

00:17:36.540 Oh, God.

00:17:37.020 Stay in the line of the table.

00:17:37.600 Oh, God.

00:17:39.240 Hey, kids, just stay down.

00:17:40.200 I got underneath the table with my buddy, Matt, and then my friend, Isaiah, he came and he sat next to me.

00:17:48.700 Still lying paralyzed in the cafeteria doorway, 15-year-old Sean could do nothing but listen. 0.98

00:17:54.220 Man, why Isaiah got to have the stereotypical look, God damn it? 0.94

00:17:57.040 Do I got to be the one to say, well, I got to look exactly how he sounds. 0.97

00:18:01.220 I can hear explosions going off upstairs, and I can hear people screaming, and I can hear gunshots just echoing throughout the school, and there's just chaos everywhere.

00:18:09.500 I got every student in the library on the fly, and you better stay on the fly.

00:18:12.600 We have paramedics, and we have fire, and we have police en route.

00:18:15.860 We were just sitting down to lunch, and the tones went off for a reported possible drive by shooting near Columbine High School.

00:18:25.280 My partner and I jumped into the medic unit and started heading towards Columbine.

00:18:32.940 As we pulled up, several students running by, and one young gal had a bullet hole in her, I believe, right calf. 1.00

00:18:39.400 We treated her.

00:18:40.260 After several minutes shooting and throwing homemade bombs in the corridor outside, Harrison Klebold now approached the library entrance, where the teacher was under the desk, on the line to 911 dispatch.

00:18:53.200 I remember trying to get her to close the doors and lock them, to keep everyone in.

00:18:56.980 Is there any way you can block the doors so no one can get in?

00:18:58.780 I do not.

00:18:59.700 She's right outside.

00:19:00.260 That's why I'm afraid to go to the door.

00:19:01.160 It's okay.

00:19:01.380 It was trying to keep her calm, so that I could, you know, figure out what was going on. 1.00

00:19:16.340 Oh, rip off your goddamn head! 1.00

00:19:18.880 Dylan was a family friend of our kids for a long time. 1.00

00:19:21.920 Grew up here, sort of.

00:19:23.780 Dylan was here a lot.

00:19:24.840 The kids met each other in the first grade and became best friends.

00:19:27.920 Hey, what's going on, dude?

00:19:28.700 This is Dylan.

00:19:29.400 There were never fights.

00:19:30.300 A lot of kids you have to send home after a while because, you know, it gets with boys.

00:19:33.880 It was great.

00:19:34.440 The three of them got along great.

00:19:35.720 He was a nice, gentle young man.

00:19:37.900 Dylan Klebold was born in Colorado and at the time of the shooting was living in his parents' designer home in a desirable natural area just outside the town.

00:19:47.340 Dylan's parents, they were intellectuals and artists at heart.

00:19:50.420 They had met at Ohio State University in the art program.

00:19:53.940 They didn't believe in spanking. 1.00

00:19:55.600 They didn't believe in guns.

00:19:56.760 They didn't believe in war.

00:19:57.640 They were pacifists.

00:19:59.280 Oh, man.

00:20:00.520 That's an L right there.

00:20:01.720 You know what time it is with that one, man. 1.00

00:20:04.320 Sometimes you need to slap the hell out of your kids, man, to keep them from being losers. 0.98

00:20:09.200 And, you know, these guys, obviously, even though they never had violence, well, at least that kid, never, even though he never had violence in his childhood, he ended up enacting violence on others, man. 0.99

00:20:17.620 Eric Harris' background.

00:20:19.080 Eric Harris' background was also far from underprivileged.

00:20:23.240 Eric's father was ex-military.

00:20:24.520 He was a decorated Air Force test pilot.

00:20:27.540 It required them to bounce around a bit from city to city as his father would get transferred, but lived in normal, middle-class neighborhoods, not living in the inner city and subject to gangs or drugs or violence.

00:20:39.500 It did affect Eric, however, always having to move to another school, make new friends again.

00:20:46.980 That was tough for him.

00:20:47.840 Eric Harris' background.

00:20:48.680 Eric Harris' background. 0.99

00:20:49.180 I hate you. 0.94

00:20:49.560 I love you. 0.95

00:20:50.560 I love you.

00:20:50.620 I love you.

00:20:50.760 I love you.

00:20:51.180 Eric Harris' background.

00:20:51.320 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were both deeply into computers and both complained they were victims of bullying by sporty students known as jocks.

00:20:59.320 After settling in the Columbine area, Harris became friends with Klebold and, as such, also hung out with Dylan's friend, Brooks Brown, but it would not always be a smooth relationship.

00:21:13.560 He had thrown a snowball at Brooks' car and cracked the windshield and a kid came up and said, here's Eric's backpack.

00:21:19.100 I took it while he was throwing the snowballs.

00:21:20.640 So I'm thinking, what's this?

00:21:22.260 I'm going to take the backpack back.

00:21:23.460 So we drove down in the car and I rolled down the window and I said to Eric, I've got your backpack.

00:21:29.500 Meet me at your mom's house.

00:21:30.720 And we rolled back up the window.

00:21:31.960 Well, he started banging on the window crazy, saying, give me my backpack.

00:21:35.120 He was frantic.

00:21:37.920 That was the first time I saw that anger.

00:21:40.020 And it was very unusual.

00:21:41.440 It was quick and it was fast and it was unrelenting. 0.99

00:21:44.280 I will freaking kill you. 1.00

00:21:45.500 I'm going to pull out a goddamn shotgun. 1.00

00:21:48.580 The 20th of April, 1999, 11.29 a.m. 1.00

00:21:53.460 Columbine High School, Western Side.

00:21:57.260 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered the library where four staff members and 52 students were hiding.

00:22:03.840 As soon as they came in, they were shooting off their guns.

00:22:06.640 They began to yell at students.

00:22:09.480 They were making some mocking comments.

00:22:11.820 Nobody.

00:22:12.400 And you guys can hear the gunshots in the 911 call to that dispatcher when the librarian called.

00:22:18.860 Whatever their race, sex or social status would be safe from the killing spree.

00:22:23.460 The first person that they killed was Kyle Velasquez, who didn't know to hide.

00:22:29.480 He had a disability and he liked simple things.

00:22:31.840 His family said he liked panda bears.

00:22:34.100 He liked coloring.

00:22:35.260 And...

00:22:35.660 Oh, my God.

00:22:37.260 They killed the disabled guy first? 0.98

00:22:39.760 That's so sad.

00:22:40.500 Bro. 0.90

00:22:41.840 Sick. 0.99

00:22:43.040 They became the bully. 0.99

00:22:43.760 What would happen next in that library would horrify the world. 1.00

00:22:51.600 Damn. 0.99

00:22:53.020 Columbine High School students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, had made a number of home videos themed around violence. 0.99

00:23:00.380 On April the 20th, just weeks before they were both due to graduate, fantasy became reality.

00:23:07.080 At 11.29 a.m., they entered the library.

00:23:13.300 Like his fellow students, 16-year-old Craig Scott was hiding under a table with his friends Matt and Isaiah.

00:23:18.920 A lot of students were being quiet.

00:23:22.900 Some girls were crying and some girls were begging for their life. 0.78

00:23:29.280 911 dispatcher Renee Napoli was listening in to a phone line left open at the library desk. 0.58

00:23:35.200 I could hear them speaking as well as the children in the library.

00:23:40.580 And I...

00:23:42.180 There was the definite sound of gunshots.

00:23:44.420 They actually fired out the windows at the police officers and two of those police officers or deputy sheriffs fired back.

00:23:51.060 They then walked over and they started systematically shooting the kids.

00:23:56.720 They treated it like it was a game.

00:24:00.660 Like they were having fun.

00:24:02.200 At one point, they would pop underneath a table.

00:24:04.160 They would say something like peekaboo and they would shoot someone. 0.68

00:24:06.960 Wow.

00:24:07.440 So they treated it like a game.

00:24:08.860 Like they're literally running around.

00:24:09.880 That was easy.

00:24:10.980 You know?

00:24:11.980 And this is the thing.

00:24:13.080 A lot of times, what I've noticed with serial killers and mass shooters, all this stuff, if you guys have been watching the show, these guys, a lot of times, guys, they need to...

00:24:24.280 What they end up doing is they dehumanize the victim.

00:24:27.760 And they do this by playing games, by looking at them as animals, you know, people like Ted Bundy, guys like Jeffrey Dahmer, etc.

00:24:34.840 They would do their best to not develop a relationship with the victim.

00:24:38.340 John Wayne Gacy, all these guys, so that they can more effectively kill the individual, aka their prey, because they will look at them as just an animal.

00:24:46.940 They wouldn't look at them from a human standpoint. 0.79

00:24:49.500 And a big part of these guys playing, oh, yeah, peekaboo, and, you know, just shooting people indiscriminately, etc., is they're trying to remove that human factor so it'll be easier for them to kill.

00:24:59.740 No, and also, it's something that they haven't mentioned here.

00:25:04.340 They were fans, like lovers of the video game Doom.

00:25:08.580 Ah, okay.

00:25:09.700 So, yeah, both of them.

00:25:11.160 So, I don't know if they mentioned this earlier.

00:25:13.080 Real quick, for some of you guys that are wondering, Doom is an old first-person shooter from the 90s where you run around and you kill monsters.

00:25:20.160 Yeah.

00:25:20.340 Very violent and gory game, especially for back-to-end standards.

00:25:23.960 Go ahead.

00:25:24.040 So, yeah, they opened, in 1996, they opened a block in this website called American Online.

00:25:33.380 Back then, I don't even, I don't know.

00:25:35.620 Okay.

00:25:35.880 So, they opened a block, and it was supposed to be, like, extra levels developed by them for the video game Doom.

00:25:43.580 So, it was, like, a theme block, like a Doom theme block that they made, right?

00:25:48.680 But later on, they just turned that block to be a super hateful of society block.

00:25:56.860 So, they started putting all these videos that you see here of, like, them shooting and, like, joking around and, like, messing with guns and stuff.

00:26:04.300 They started uploading those videos and also, like, making videos hating on people.

00:26:10.000 And one of those people was this guy, Brooks, that is, like, was friends with one of them.

00:26:15.300 So, they were friends with him, and then it wasn't, like, a good relationship.

00:26:20.720 So, they started making videos hating on him, and later on, this guy found the block, and he was the one who told the authorities.

00:26:31.440 And I'll let you know, because I want to know what the documentary says.

00:26:37.140 What the documentary says?

00:26:38.220 Okay.

00:26:38.780 Yes.

00:26:39.060 All right.

00:26:40.480 I think that they were enjoying themselves through a good portion of the shooting.

00:26:44.000 There was a lot of hooting and hollering and false bravado between the two of them.

00:26:48.820 Treating it like a game, guys.

00:26:49.920 That's how they're able to dehumanize the victims. 0.61

00:26:51.420 Three would be shot dead and four injured before Harris and Klebold worked their way towards Craig Scott.

00:26:59.200 They came over to where I was, and they saw Isaiah.

00:27:03.220 And Isaiah was one of the very few African-American students in our school.

00:27:07.340 And I believe Dylan called Eric over, and using a racial slur, we have an N-word over here.

00:27:12.600 At one point, he was kind of backing up underneath the table, and then at one point, he was being pulled out.

00:27:19.400 And this is something that came up in my memory later.

00:27:22.120 I remember Isaiah said, I want to see my mom.

00:27:25.600 They shot Isaiah, and then they turned their gun towards Matt, and they shot Matt.

00:27:32.980 I had decided to pretend to be dead and not draw any attention to myself.

00:27:37.820 Good move right there.

00:27:41.000 That is definitely an IQ move.

00:27:42.740 It's over 9,000!

00:27:45.880 So I, um...

00:27:49.180 I laid there, and I could hear their last breaths being taken.

00:27:56.820 Five more students would lose their lives, leaving 10 dead and 12 injured in the deadly library spree.

00:28:02.540 Before Harrison Klebold left the room at 11.36 a.m.

00:28:06.720 And began wreaking further havoc around the school.

00:28:09.780 Can I share a suspect in an emergency?

00:28:11.520 Yes, we do.

00:28:12.580 You guys have done lots and lots of experiments.

00:28:14.400 We have paramedics, we have fire, and we have police on route.

00:28:17.580 SWAT sniper Sean Duggan was one of several law enforcement officers with children at the school.

00:28:22.960 I got a page, and it said, all SWAT respond to a critical incident.

00:28:27.160 So I have all my gear, and I'm trying to call my daughter, and she's not answering her page.

00:28:30.600 And she was a senior in the school that day.

00:28:32.200 So I'm a little frantic that she's not responding.

00:28:36.480 Hundreds of emergency personnel were flocking to the school.

00:28:39.880 There was ambulances and fire trucks and police cars and sheriff's cars parked everywhere.

00:28:45.500 And children were running from the school at breakneck speeds as fast as they could.

00:28:49.880 I was running for my life.

00:28:53.700 And when I got behind the police car, I couldn't help but be thinking about Matt and Isaiah.

00:29:00.320 Because there was still a little bit of breathing.

00:29:04.060 And I felt a little like a coward.

00:29:07.760 I was under a table, and people were getting shot all around me.

00:29:15.480 It was overwhelming to see the emotion on these kids' faces, and I knew that the world had changed.

00:29:22.040 And there's so many people.

00:29:25.100 Oh, my God.

00:29:27.600 Everybody was calling 911 from inside the school, from outside the school.

00:29:31.260 So the information that we were getting was conflicting.

00:29:34.320 As a sniper, you ask what your rules of engagement are.

00:29:37.500 Is this a deadly force situation?

00:29:38.860 And I was told if any high school-aged kids come out in black trench coats with weapons, they were to be shot.

00:29:45.580 Amongst the confusion, the name of one suspect began to trickle out.

00:29:49.260 I suppose to front my arm, this is Ted.

00:29:51.380 Okay, do you have any expert and suspect information?

00:29:53.440 I think this is the guy.

00:29:54.520 Okay, what do you got for me?

00:29:55.640 Okay, last name is Karen.

00:29:57.000 He was right with him approximately two years ago, but then he started acting really strange.

00:30:00.260 It would be revealed that Eric Harris' behavior had already been seriously worrying some people.

00:30:09.120 Along the way, Eric did let out a different lot of signs he had on his website talking about how we wanted to kill all sorts of people.

00:30:15.860 Hundreds of people wanted to kill everybody in Denver, and in particular, Brooks Brown, his former friend.

00:30:21.560 Disputes like the incident with the broken windshield had put Brown on Harris' hit list.

00:30:26.120 Brooks was supposed to pick Eric up for school,

00:30:27.960 and Brooks was terrible with being on time, and Brooks slept in and didn't pick him up, and that was it.

00:30:33.940 That was it.

00:30:34.620 And I said to Brooks, can you smooth it over?

00:30:36.080 And Brooks said, it doesn't work that way with Eric.

00:30:38.260 And so that was the indication Eric doesn't forgive.

00:30:40.760 He was an injustice collector.

00:30:42.380 Dylan, who was still friends with, and had been lifelong friends with Brooks, warned Brooks to go to a website and see what was going on.

00:30:50.000 He was posting threats about wanting to kill Brooks, and that's the thing we took to the police.

00:30:55.580 And from when he started making the death threats, he wasn't allowed in our house anymore.

00:30:59.140 We knew that Eric was dangerous.

00:31:00.400 We did not know Dylan was dangerous.

00:31:01.320 When we turned him into the police, Eric was into pipe bombs, and he was talking about it on his website.

00:31:06.560 There was actually a search warrant drawn up, but then was never taken before a judge to search Eric's house.

00:31:12.900 That was never followed up on because there was another series of murders in the town where the person investigating sort of went off that case for a while and never picked it up again.

00:31:19.960 Next.

00:31:20.720 But Harrison Klebold's plan involved something much worse than homemade pipe bomb grenades, as Sean Graves, still paralyzed and bleeding half inside the cafeteria door, was about to experience.

00:31:31.620 I started hearing the gunshots getting closer, and that's when I realized that they were coming down the stairs in the cafeteria.

00:31:36.500 They just kept getting close.

00:31:37.320 So he's, as you, if you guys remember, he got shot pretty much in the lower back slash glute.

00:31:42.840 So he's pretty much paralyzed at this point, man.

00:31:45.760 So he's helpless.

00:31:47.680 Closer and closer and closer.

00:31:49.440 And I started hearing explosions.

00:31:53.340 But every time there was a shot, and then one of those larger booms went off, I flinched.

00:32:01.700 Harrison Klebold's killing spree had not just been planned as a shooting.

00:32:04.920 Before they had opened fire that morning, they had placed two large explosive devices in the canteen.

00:32:11.340 They had been timed to explode at 11.17 a.m., and the two students had planned to wait outside to pick off any survivors fleeing the scene.

00:32:19.360 Eric Harris had even gone so far as to study how many people were in the cafeteria at any given time during the lunch hour.

00:32:25.360 So he set those bombs to go off when he would have the mass casualty.

00:32:28.940 Approximately 450 is what he was estimating, and we had 455 kids down there.

00:32:33.180 The bomb's timers had not worked, which is why Harris and Klebold had begun their killing spree with their guns.

00:32:40.840 However, they'd not given up on their dream of blowing up the school.

00:32:44.180 Well, I didn't know it at the time.

00:32:46.020 There was actually a propane canister bomb, essentially, that was no more than five feet from where I was laying.

00:32:51.900 And they were shooting at it, trying to get the bomb to go off.

00:32:59.560 Their new attempts to detonate the bombs only succeeded in a relatively small partial explosion and fire.

00:33:05.520 But they were a sign of a highly planned premeditated suicide mission.

00:33:10.060 These two students did not just snap.

00:33:12.680 In this case, it was clear they began talking about doing something like this just about...

00:33:19.180 Hold on. Is this guy an FBI profiler?

00:33:20.960 Okay, psychologist and FBI investigator.

00:33:23.600 Okay, yeah.

00:33:24.040 So he's a psychiatrist and an FBI agent.

00:33:29.400 And talking about doing something like this just about a little over a year before.

00:33:37.560 Eric Harris' first entry in his journal, in his notebook, is April 10, 1998.

00:33:43.060 The first words I read, I think kind of set the tone, was, I hate the effing world.

00:33:46.840 So, you know, he's not talking about hating jocks.

00:33:50.560 He's not talking about, you know, any kind of particular group.

00:33:53.800 Later, he makes fun of just about everybody.

00:33:55.700 People who drive too slow in the fast lane.

00:33:57.900 People who say across instead of across.

00:33:59.680 Or, you know, mispronounced words.

00:34:00.920 You know, any trivial thing.

00:34:02.920 You know, there's nothing too trivial for Eric to have contempt for you.

00:34:05.800 But Dylan also had a lot of writing.

00:34:08.840 We, my favorite book, we, the gods, will have so much.

00:34:16.240 Oh, man, this guy's handwriting is terrible.

00:34:18.500 Blowing up.

00:34:20.100 Okay. 1.00

00:34:21.460 Killing cops. 0.99

00:34:22.380 I see that underlined. 0.99

00:34:24.560 My wrath for January's will be godlike.

00:34:30.360 Yeah, this is a nightmare.

00:34:31.760 And notes that he left.

00:34:35.440 His centered around his emotions, his feelings.

00:34:38.600 He clearly stated he was depressed.

00:34:40.300 He clearly stated that his life was a mess.

00:34:43.600 Dylan's journal went on for two years.

00:34:45.400 And the very first page, he talks about killing himself.

00:34:48.520 He had a miserable perception of himself.

00:34:50.600 And often, at complete odds with reality. 0.87

00:34:52.980 He was, in my mind, a classic adolescent depressive.

00:34:55.680 Or going through an adolescent depressive episode.

00:34:58.540 When confronted with some of his inappropriate behavior,

00:35:00.380 he would get extremely angry.

00:35:02.020 Whereas, when people confronted Eric with some of his earlier misbehaviors,

00:35:06.260 he would respond in a classic psychopathic way.

00:35:09.400 He would tell you what you wanted to hear, promise never to do it again,

00:35:12.080 and would be looking you in the eyes and deliberately telling you what he thought you wanted to hear.

00:35:17.320 Harris had a personality disorder that made him lacking in empathy for the suffering of victims.

00:35:25.920 Made him very manipulative and crafty.

00:35:28.300 You know, he had an uncanny ability to present himself any way he wanted.

00:35:33.340 So, he looked like a good guy to many people.

00:35:36.260 But actually, he didn't have a conscience, or what Sigmund Freud called a superego.

00:35:41.260 Well, this guy looks like angsty.

00:35:42.740 Brooks Brown's mother experienced Eric's excuses when his father sent him around to apologize for damaging her son's windscreen.

00:35:49.860 He looked at me and he said,

00:35:50.680 Mrs. Brown, I'm sorry, I didn't mean any harm.

00:35:54.120 And I said, look, Eric, you can pull the wool over everyone's eyes, but you're not going to do it over mine.

00:35:58.220 You come by this house, you threaten my kid, you do damage, I'm going to call the police.

00:36:01.500 So, you stay away from our house and stay away from me.

00:36:04.340 And he said, are you calling me a liar?

00:36:05.900 And I said, yes, I am.

00:36:07.040 And don't come around the house again.

00:36:08.920 And he got bright red.

00:36:10.640 I mean, he was so angry at me, and he left the house.

00:36:14.180 Together, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had become a deadly partnership.

00:36:18.240 And the two killers were now wreaking havoc, not only inside the school, but outside too.

00:36:22.640 Wow, look at his shoes.

00:36:23.480 As parents feared for the fate of their children.

00:36:26.260 Yeah, that was probably from the bombs going off, melting the chairs.

00:36:29.060 That's wild.

00:36:29.280 By the time I got to my sniper position, my phone rang, and it was my daughter.

00:36:31.860 And I said, are you okay?

00:36:32.780 She said, yeah, I'm home.

00:36:33.600 And I said, okay, I have to go.

00:36:35.580 I love you.

00:36:36.320 And we hung up.

00:36:38.360 Many parents, including Daniel Mauser's father, learned of the unfolding events through the media.

00:36:43.480 There, on the television, was news coverage.

00:36:46.740 It looked terrible.

00:36:49.440 But I said to myself, well, if there's something going wrong at the school, certainly my son wouldn't be involved.

00:36:56.380 He was not somebody who'd be in trouble or being targeted by somebody.

00:37:00.860 When I got home, my wife had a very concerned look on her face. 0.99

00:37:06.220 Why wasn't he calling us?

00:37:10.620 So I agreed to go to another school where a number of the students were being taken in school buses after they escaped.

00:37:15.620 And as I was driving, I was listening to the news coverage.

00:37:20.580 And at one point, I heard them mention that they were taking some students to the hospital.

00:37:25.100 And one of the ones they mentioned was a 15-year-old boy who was shot.

00:37:30.500 So, of course, the first thing I thought was, 15 years old, that's how old Daniel is.

00:37:34.440 What if that's Daniel?

00:37:35.400 Could that be my son?

00:37:36.340 At the nearby elementary school, many parents would be reunited with their traumatized kids.

00:37:44.140 I saw parents walking out with children.

00:37:46.000 And I just said to myself, I want to be one of them.

00:37:48.040 I want to get this over with.

00:37:49.040 I want to be one of those people.

00:37:52.900 By 12.02 p.m., Columbine High School cafeteria exit.

00:37:57.280 Student Sean Graves, bleeding profusely, had passed out.

00:38:00.340 Meanwhile, two medic units approached his location.

00:38:04.720 I drove around the south side as we're pulling into the parking lot through all the cars,

00:38:09.420 see several students hiding behind cars, several deputies with their weapons strained on the building.

00:38:15.620 I couldn't figure out what woke me up.

00:38:17.640 But when I did snap back to it, there was some commotion behind me.

00:38:20.220 And as I overlooked my shoulder, there was an ambulance sitting right behind me.

00:38:24.180 I saw two paramedics.

00:38:26.060 One jumped out of the driver's seat and the other from the back of the ambulance.

00:38:28.660 And they grabbed me, picked me up by my shirt and my belt, and they were dragging me out.

00:38:32.900 And I remember just looking down to see my arms and my legs dangling.

00:38:35.900 And that's when the shooters realized that somebody was down there helping us.

00:38:39.300 And I could see the concrete, just poofs of white dust.

00:38:41.800 They were opening fire on us.

00:38:43.360 They were trying to kill us again.

00:38:46.220 Holt up amongst the dead and injured in the library,

00:38:48.740 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold now had their weapons trained on the paramedics and casualties below.

00:38:58.660 By 12.02 p.m. on the 20th of April, 1999,

00:39:04.140 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had been running amok in Columbine High School for more than 40 minutes,

00:39:09.660 leaving a trail of dead and injured in their wake.

00:39:12.420 Okay.

00:39:13.260 We're like, yeah, halfway past the documentary.

00:39:16.580 Okay.

00:39:18.560 So remember when I explained to you that they had the Doom website and blah, blah, blah.

00:39:24.100 And then this guy discovered the Brooks Brown, I think his name was,

00:39:30.400 the guy that Eric was friends with, but now he's not a friend anymore.

00:39:34.220 So somebody gave him the tip to check out the website.

00:39:37.020 When he checked out the website, he found out the dead threats about him and all that stuff.

00:39:42.220 So he told his parents, his parents told the police and the police detained the Dylan and Eric.

00:39:50.760 And they took him, they took them to, to not to jail,

00:39:54.880 but they made them do this thing that they will make like minors do late, 1.00

00:39:59.600 like labor work, like community service.

00:40:02.280 Yeah.

00:40:02.660 So they did that for like a while, but then they let, they let them out.

00:40:07.600 So they also had to do a psychological attention.

00:40:10.560 Like they also went to the psychologies and stuff,

00:40:12.980 but they let them out because they were like, you know, they, they did well behave.

00:40:17.320 They had good behavior and stuff and they let them out.

00:40:19.960 So they deleted the blog and they started uploading again, the Doom game stuff.

00:40:25.700 But in the blog, they had instructions to make homemade bombs and stuff.

00:40:29.560 So right after they were let, they, they were let out, they planned this plot,

00:40:36.000 but they recorded every, like they wrote everything in their journals.

00:40:39.660 Like everything was written down.

00:40:41.880 They were, that's why Myron asked me at the beginning,

00:40:44.880 because this is what the media will, will like let out.

00:40:48.620 People believe like there's, there is some evidence and people will say

00:40:53.240 that these guys were white supremacists and they, um, they were bullied 0.64

00:40:59.080 because they were gay.

00:41:00.400 So they had something going on between them.

00:41:03.000 So that's why they were like highly bullied.

00:41:06.480 Um, people will also believe that they weren't.

00:41:08.660 So that's why they were bullied is because they were, they were, 0.96

00:41:11.160 they were gay and because they're white supremacists. 0.98

00:41:14.080 Yeah. 0.93

00:41:14.420 There is also a guy that, no, they were bullied because they were gay,

00:41:18.080 but they were also white supremacists. 0.95

00:41:19.520 They were, they were in love with Hitler. 0.81

00:41:21.760 Oh, okay.

00:41:22.480 All right.

00:41:22.840 We in love.

00:41:23.840 Like these guys were like super fans of Hitler and, um,

00:41:28.220 they even plan to do, this is 1999.

00:41:32.300 Yeah.

00:41:32.520 You want to, I'm going to tell you something that's going to blow your mind.

00:41:35.640 Yeah.

00:41:35.880 They even planned to blow the twin towers.

00:41:40.520 What?

00:41:41.420 Yep.

00:41:42.380 Wow.

00:41:43.180 Well, there was the world trade center bombing in, uh, 93.

00:41:46.760 So the plot had been out there, but yeah, that is crazy that they had,

00:41:51.120 had that idea.

00:41:51.960 Yeah.

00:41:52.360 Yeah.

00:41:52.400 They had the idea to blow the twin towers.

00:41:54.420 They, they, they, they, they planned some terrorist attacks and they had,

00:41:58.400 they had everything written down in the journals.

00:42:00.700 So, um, there is a guy that they kill in here in the school that he, he was like the biggest

00:42:08.920 bully of one of them.

00:42:10.320 I think it's Eric and he will call him your favorite insult.

00:42:14.960 They always call people rhymes with dag runs with egg.

00:42:20.580 Yeah.

00:42:20.980 Yeah.

00:42:21.280 Okay.

00:42:21.560 Yeah.

00:42:21.780 Yeah.

00:42:21.840 Yeah.

00:42:22.020 Yeah.

00:42:22.460 My favorite term guys, you know?

00:42:24.340 Yeah.

00:42:24.500 Yeah.

00:42:24.720 They would call it.

00:42:25.160 He would call him that.

00:42:25.800 All right.

00:42:25.940 And then what?

00:42:26.560 Yeah.

00:42:26.800 And, um, right when he was about to kill him, he was like, Oh, um, I'm not such a bit anymore. 0.98

00:42:34.940 Am I now you're the shoot him in the head? 0.99

00:42:38.840 Oh, wow. 1.00

00:42:39.940 Really?

00:42:40.580 Yeah.

00:42:41.100 So who's the dag now? 0.99

00:42:42.280 And then he just shoots him in the head. 0.99

00:42:43.320 Yeah. 1.00

00:42:43.780 Oh, wow. 1.00

00:42:44.680 God damn. 1.00

00:42:45.560 Ouch. 1.00

00:42:46.140 So yeah, that happened.

00:42:47.460 Okay.

00:42:48.600 Uh, all right.

00:42:49.700 Shout out to Angie with the, uh, insight from behind the scenes.

00:42:52.900 Yeah.

00:42:53.160 Doing a little bit more extra research for y'all.

00:42:56.180 Like the video for Angie's English.

00:42:58.660 All right.

00:42:59.520 Now we'll go to her, uh, hooked on phonics. 0.98

00:43:01.420 They plan to go to Mexico after these, um,

00:43:04.780 Oh, really?

00:43:05.280 They thought they were actually going to make it out alive.

00:43:06.820 Yeah.

00:43:07.020 But then when they saw the people, uh, the police and everyone, they just shoot.

00:43:11.020 They gave up.

00:43:11.520 Yeah.

00:43:11.820 Yeah.

00:43:11.980 Okay.

00:43:12.120 They killed.

00:43:12.600 Then as fire department paramedics moved in to assist casualties like Sean Graves and

00:43:16.980 his friends, Harris and Klebold began firing on the kids and rescuers.

00:43:22.240 I found medic 13's group were struggling to get Sean Graves loaded up into the medic unit.

00:43:27.500 So I came up in the middle of him and one had the head, the other had the feet.

00:43:31.220 And we stepped into the ambulance.

00:43:32.840 They threw me in first.

00:43:34.020 I saw another young man laying by the fence and then he turned his head and made eye

00:43:39.000 contact with me and said, help me.

00:43:41.640 I scooped up and then dumped the young man literally into the back of the ambulance so

00:43:45.720 that they could get out of the gunfire.

00:43:47.160 I just remember hearing that the sounds of bullets hitting the top of the ambulance,

00:43:51.820 just the metal tinging.

00:43:54.160 And that's, uh, I'll take that away from all of that.

00:43:56.600 It's being a sound that I'll never forget.

00:43:59.140 It would be among the last acts of Harrison Klebold's killing spree.

00:44:02.540 They were shooting at the cops.

00:44:05.140 They were taking pot shots and police were firing back.

00:44:08.160 I think they realized the only escape was going to be into the long arm of the law and

00:44:13.960 prosecution and jail and prison.

00:44:17.980 And I think there was a thought of let's end this the way we want it to end.

00:44:22.020 Let's control our own destiny.

00:44:23.420 At around 12.08 p.m., Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold took their own lives.

00:44:32.820 But for the children of Columbine High School and their parents, the nightmare was far from

00:44:37.140 over.

00:44:38.140 Kids would leave Columbine and they would be placed on a bus and reunified with their parents.

00:44:42.680 And as the night went on, buses were not arriving and there were still parents left.

00:44:48.840 After nothing happening for a while, they informed us that there was one last school

00:44:55.620 bus that was coming.

00:44:57.580 One last school bus with students.

00:45:00.020 But for some desperate parents, clinging on to the hope that their children would return,

00:45:04.100 there was to be no happy ending.

00:45:06.360 Later on, the authorities confirmed to us that they made a terrible mistake.

00:45:13.480 There was no last school bus.

00:45:15.820 At the end of the day, we had 13 innocent people killed, which were 12 students and one

00:45:26.800 teacher.

00:45:27.700 In addition, Harrison Klebold also dead by apparent suicide in the library.

00:45:33.200 So we knew we had 15 fatalities, most of the fatalities in the library.

00:45:38.480 For Craig Scott, who had suffered the trauma of having his friends murdered beside him in

00:45:45.740 the library, there was worse to come when he learned of the fate of his sister.

00:45:50.900 Rachel was the first one that was killed.

00:45:53.160 And she had been killed right outside the school library.

00:45:55.440 And I realized that when I ran out of the school, I had ran right by Rachel and.

00:46:14.340 Not much you can say there, man. 0.98

00:46:16.140 That just that just really sucks. 0.98

00:46:18.280 You see, the look in his face tells you everything you need to know. 0.99

00:46:20.780 Not much to say.

00:46:25.320 My son was one of the last that was shot.

00:46:27.440 He was next to last who was shot.

00:46:31.200 And from the reports that we have.

00:46:34.700 Eric Harris looked at Daniel and insulted him.

00:46:38.740 I believe it was he called him four eyes because he wore glasses.

00:46:41.900 What the?

00:46:42.820 And he fired.

00:46:43.460 Yeah, these guys.

00:46:44.260 These dudes, man.

00:46:45.000 What?

00:46:45.880 Like, yo.

00:46:46.880 Lamas. 1.00

00:46:47.340 What the fuck? 1.00

00:46:47.880 Like, weren't you guys getting bullied? 1.00

00:46:50.180 Like, what the hell are y'all?

00:46:51.200 Like. 1.00

00:46:51.460 Boom, fuck up. 1.00

00:46:52.520 Bro. 1.00

00:46:53.580 The shot that went into Daniel's hand.

00:46:56.480 Daniel fought back.

00:46:58.660 He took the chair that was there and he pushed it towards Eric Harris.

00:47:05.180 And for that, he paid with his life. 1.00

00:47:07.780 Damn. 1.00

00:47:08.120 Eric Harris fired one more time and shot him in the face. 1.00

00:47:12.700 Killed him. 0.95

00:47:13.200 This guy's, the blonde guy's sister.

00:47:19.620 She was Christian and she got killed with her best friend, Casey.

00:47:24.600 And they were like next to each other.

00:47:26.220 They were having lunch at the cafeteria.

00:47:27.700 I think it was.

00:47:28.380 Oh, no.

00:47:28.940 They were like right out there.

00:47:30.000 I love her.

00:47:30.380 Right.

00:47:30.620 They said.

00:47:32.120 I think they were praying.

00:47:33.560 And this guy came up to them.

00:47:35.720 One of them.

00:47:37.140 I think it was.

00:47:38.220 Wait.

00:47:39.360 Oh, yeah.

00:47:39.720 It was Harris.

00:47:42.700 Eric Harris.

00:47:43.420 Okay.

00:47:43.600 He came up to them and he was like.

00:47:45.740 He asked Casey, the other girl.

00:47:48.200 Do you believe in God?

00:47:49.400 And she didn't answer. 0.94

00:47:50.600 And then he shot her in the head. 0.96

00:47:54.060 Right in the forehead. 0.98

00:47:54.960 Like.

00:47:55.560 Wow.

00:47:56.580 Yep.

00:47:57.460 Wow.

00:47:58.680 Because she didn't answer. 0.88

00:47:59.460 These guys are burning in hell for that one, man.

00:48:01.520 I'll tell you that, man.

00:48:02.320 Satan has them now.

00:48:05.880 Yep.

00:48:07.280 Students, both just weeks away from graduating, to have such disdain for human life.

00:48:12.460 These two kids did not come out of their mother's womb hating what happened from the time they were born to the time that they carried out this horrific act.

00:48:20.360 One thing that is erroneous is to talk about why they did this, implying that it was for the same reasons.

00:48:27.440 They were two basically different guys.

00:48:29.560 In my colloquialisms, I would say Eric Harris was filled with anger, with rage.

00:48:35.840 He wanted to hurt other people and didn't care if he died.

00:48:39.400 Dylan, on the other hand, I believe, was hurting inside and at various times wanted to die because he felt so bad he just saw no reason to keep on living.

00:48:47.100 People who studied these called them dyads, and there's a long history of Bonnie and Clyde, Leopold and Loeb.

00:48:52.180 And very often, most often, you have a stronger person and a weaker person.

00:48:55.740 In this case, Dylan had incredibly low self-esteem, needed somebody to validate him, make him feel good about himself.

00:49:02.880 Some consider bullying at the school to be the primary factor.

00:49:06.700 Once you hate the bullies and no one does anything to defend you, you hate the people in the class that don't say anything.

00:49:11.540 You hate the teacher that doesn't say anything.

00:49:13.220 You hate the counselors that allow it to happen.

00:49:14.680 They, in essence, end up hating the school, not just the bullies.

00:49:18.240 They hate the school, and they want to kill the school.

00:49:20.860 I think that they didn't see that they had a lot going for them.

00:49:25.220 They became isolated.

00:49:26.620 And that isolation and then exposure to a lot of negative influences in their life that they chose to focus on, I think really took them towards a darker and darker place.

00:49:36.700 Harris was the dominant person who inspired the Columbine massacre.

00:49:41.500 And I think Clebo went along to get along.

00:49:43.980 It was that chemistry that created this insane circumstance where they were able to kill lots of people with moral impunity.

00:49:53.440 For the Columbine teachers, students, and parents, life would never be the same again.

00:50:00.020 I was paralyzed from the waist down.

00:50:01.540 I spent months in the hospital.

00:50:07.720 They didn't foresee me ever walking again.

00:50:10.260 And I was angry.

00:50:11.800 I was very angry about that.

00:50:13.200 But at the same time, I'm extremely stubborn.

00:50:16.380 So I didn't let that be the end of it.

00:50:19.420 I made a goal for myself to walk across the stage of graduation.

00:50:23.420 I wanted to be able to graduate, knowing that I didn't let those two control my life.

00:50:28.660 I didn't let them ruin my life.

00:50:30.160 Nice.

00:50:31.880 I've actually been walking ever since.

00:50:33.960 For 911 dispatcher Rene Napoli, who listened as ten children were murdered in the library, the enormity of what she'd heard soon hit home.

00:50:44.860 My first day off, I went to pick up my children from high school.

00:50:50.400 And I had a really hard time picking up my own children from high school.

00:50:56.200 So much so that my son had to drive home.

00:50:58.620 And that's when it really hit me, is that I'm able to pick up my children from high school, and somebody else is not able to do that.

00:51:05.760 Yeah.

00:51:06.080 The words that we have here were written by my wife.

00:51:10.300 She did a great job of summing up Daniel's life and what this means to us, to have this here, to honor him.

00:51:17.980 Wow. 0.99

00:51:26.080 Damn. 1.00

00:51:26.480 It's like they did it for Daniel. 1.00

00:51:33.500 And those are the ten victims right there.

00:51:35.440 Okay, so this guy right here.

00:51:36.720 One teacher, students.

00:51:38.200 This guy right here.

00:51:39.360 Who?

00:51:39.880 Right here?

00:51:40.560 Okay.

00:51:40.900 This one is the one that.

00:51:42.120 John, Robert.

00:51:43.300 John Tromlin.

00:51:44.740 Okay.

00:51:45.400 Tomlin, yeah.

00:51:45.740 So what happened to him was that he used to call maggot to this other guy.

00:51:53.480 Oh, okay.

00:51:54.220 The word that rhymes with maggot.

00:51:55.940 Yeah.

00:51:56.080 So witnesses said that when Tromlin, this guy tried to, he tried to run away.

00:52:01.220 Okay.

00:52:01.460 So he tried to run away, but this guy caught him.

00:52:03.780 Harris, Eric Harris.

00:52:04.800 He caught him and he kicked him. 0.54

00:52:07.020 So he pushed him to the floor and he was like, you used to call me maggot. 0.89

00:52:12.180 Who's the maggot now? 0.97

00:52:13.600 And then just shot him? 0.99

00:52:14.640 Yep. 0.97

00:52:15.080 Wow.

00:52:15.520 That's what happened. 1.00

00:52:16.460 Damn. 1.00

00:52:18.080 And then, yeah. 1.00

00:52:18.840 These are all the victims, guys.

00:52:19.880 Recipes to all these victims from this terrible shooting.

00:52:24.840 I'll show you guys real quick.

00:52:26.520 And you got a timeline right here that kind of describes it.

00:52:29.060 So how that rampage unfolded.

00:52:31.540 As many as 25 students and teachers were killed Tuesday when armed students stormed the Jefferson County School.

00:52:38.380 I think only 10.

00:52:39.720 I think 10 were killed.

00:52:41.180 This is.

00:52:41.820 Yeah.

00:52:43.580 1120.

00:52:44.300 Is this it, Angie?

00:52:46.000 Yeah.

00:52:47.660 Someone at the Columbine High School.

00:52:49.920 Hold on.

00:52:51.640 Maybe I'm going to zoom in a little bit.

00:52:53.140 So, 1125.

00:52:56.920 Someone at Columbine High School calls 911 to report that shots have been fired at the school.

00:53:00.800 1130 a.m.

00:53:02.500 First Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies arrive on scene.

00:53:04.820 They hear gunshots and explosions and call other agencies for help.

00:53:08.140 I think they mean 25 students and teachers were killed or injured.

00:53:11.320 Yeah.

00:53:12.560 Suspects walk into the cafeteria and ask all jocks to stand up saying they'll be killed. 1.00

00:53:16.360 God damn. 1.00

00:53:17.180 Oh, my God. 1.00

00:53:17.920 Call goes out for additional ammunition for officers in case of shootout.

00:53:22.160 1230.

00:53:22.600 Groups of students and teachers hiding in offices and other areas of the school begin calling family members, police, and media agencies from their cell phones.

00:53:31.420 Suspects reported still inside school and firing more shots.

00:53:35.180 Authorities report pipe bombs found in the area.

00:53:37.380 Officers find bodies in the library.

00:53:38.520 The dead include two suspects whose bodies are booby-trapped with explosive devices.

00:53:42.580 And we know that they had killed themselves right around 12, but people didn't know that.

00:53:48.380 Yeah, they went into the library and they killed themselves.

00:53:50.940 Yeah.

00:53:51.220 So, yeah, man, really, really crazy stuff.

00:53:55.880 This was the, you know, biggest school shooting for damn near 20 years because 2018 was the next biggest one.

00:54:02.800 24, I think.

00:54:03.280 Um, because the next biggest one was in 2018 at the, uh, right here in Parkland, actually.

00:54:09.180 Um, but Columbine, Columbine is definitely like the, the main one that started everything.

00:54:14.040 We can do Parkland.

00:54:15.300 Yeah, we'll do Parkland.

00:54:16.180 We'll do, um, Sandy Hook as well for y'all.

00:54:19.420 Sandy Hook was another big one, uh, that occurred in 2013.

00:54:22.420 But, uh, yeah.

00:54:24.060 Yeah, man, that guy's was a, that was a short and sweet one for y'all.

00:54:26.940 Uh, Angie, got anything for the people before we close this thing out?

00:54:29.040 Well, actually, uh, the guy, Brooke Brown, that used to have the, the beef with this Eric,

00:54:33.880 like, um, they actually, uh, like, pardoned his life.

00:54:38.880 Like, Eric saw him right when he was about to enter the school with this other guy to shoot everyone.

00:54:44.200 And he was like, yeah, you, you're cool now.

00:54:46.720 Like, you're my friend.

00:54:47.740 Get out.

00:54:48.720 They let him out.

00:54:50.240 Who did he, who did he tell that to?

00:54:51.680 Brooke Brown.

00:54:52.700 Uh, the guy.

00:54:53.440 Brooke Brown?

00:54:54.020 Yeah, because this guy told his parents about the block and that's why they got into.

00:54:59.480 Wait, which guy told us?

00:55:00.800 This guy, Brooke Brown.

00:55:01.820 They used to be friends with Eric.

00:55:02.980 Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:55:04.220 Remember that he, he broke the, the windshield.

00:55:07.020 These parents like, God.

00:55:08.300 Yes, yes, yes.

00:55:09.220 So they actually saw him when they were coming in.

00:55:10.840 Yeah.

00:55:11.360 And he, they became friends after they were let out of the community service and stuff.

00:55:16.540 Okay.

00:55:16.980 They became friends.

00:55:17.840 So Eric and him.

00:55:19.640 So he pardoned his life.

00:55:21.280 Like he was like, because we're friends now, you, you're good to go leave because we're going 0.99

00:55:25.360 to kill everyone. 0.99

00:55:26.140 Wow. 1.00

00:55:26.660 And they let him go.

00:55:27.880 That's wild, man.

00:55:29.740 Woo, man.

00:55:30.780 Well, I guess that's a lesson to be nice to everybody, right?

00:55:34.760 That's why you shouldn't bully people.

00:55:36.760 I don't bully anybody.

00:55:37.620 I'm just kidding.

00:55:39.540 Someone's going to come after me now.

00:55:41.000 Murray, you said I was fat.

00:55:42.680 I found you in Miami.

00:55:44.520 Yeah.

00:55:45.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:55:45.820 You don't know. 1.00

00:55:47.140 I'm going to shoot back.

00:55:49.840 Anyway, guys, hope you guys enjoyed that episode of Fed It Man.

00:55:52.940 Fed Reacts.

00:55:53.660 Fed Reacts.

00:55:54.220 I said Fed It Man.

00:55:54.960 Fed Reacts.

00:55:55.380 Sorry.

00:55:55.520 We've been off the air for two weeks.

00:55:57.020 I forgot.

00:55:59.300 Follow me on Instagram, guys, on Fed Reacts.

00:56:01.140 Angie manages it.

00:56:02.220 Request your cases there.

00:56:03.760 Just don't swear at her because she's going to get mad.

00:56:05.760 Yeah.

00:56:06.100 And then complain about it to me.

00:56:07.940 So, yeah.

00:56:08.300 No, that's not true. 0.98

00:56:09.320 Also, don't send me like naked pictures of girls. 0.97

00:56:11.860 You've been doing that too. 0.97

00:56:13.420 And that's not nice.

00:56:15.200 They send you nudes of girls?

00:56:16.400 Murray's not seeing them.

00:56:17.560 Like send it to Murray.

00:56:18.420 Send it to his own Instagram.

00:56:20.080 Oh, they send you nudes of chicks?

00:56:21.500 Yeah.

00:56:22.240 Why?

00:56:23.060 I don't know, man.

00:56:23.960 Like, guys, I don't watch Korn, if you know what I'm saying.

00:56:29.340 So, I wouldn't.

00:56:30.060 Just send it to him.

00:56:31.000 No, don't send it to me.

00:56:31.960 Don't send it to me, man.

00:56:32.800 Send it to him.

00:56:33.800 Don't send it to me, man.

00:56:35.220 Anyway, guys, don't forget to like the video.

00:56:37.000 Subscribe on your way out if you haven't already.

00:56:38.880 We'll catch you guys in the next episode of Fed Reacts.

00:56:40.640 Peace.

00:56:44.100 A special agent with Homeland Security Investigations.

00:56:45.980 Okay, guys?

00:56:46.520 H-S-I. 0.99

00:56:47.120 This is what Fed Reacts covers.

00:56:48.540 The friend of Jeffrey Williams and associate of YSL did commit the felony.

00:56:51.120 Here's what.

The Debrief With MyronGainesX - November 03, 2023

Fed Explains Columbine Shooting

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