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foreign 1999 students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would embark on a massacre that would make history and the name of one Colorado High School synonymous with tragedy children were running from the school at Breakneck speeds and I knew that the world had changed as the clock ticked the body count Rose they would pop underneath a table they would say something like peekaboo and they would shoot someone and with it the question why have these two young men waged war on their classmates and teachers a bullet entered the side of my backpack spun around and actually shot me in the back and committed the world's most notorious Killing Spree what caused them to have so much hatred they were willing to walk in and kill as many people as possible foreign [Music] in 1999 the area of Columbine on the outskirts of Denver Colorado had been the epitome of ordinary it's a suburban area it's pretty quiet not a lot of crime it's overwhelmingly white middle class which is to say very homogeneous place one spring day in 1999 would bring the unremarkable neighborhood worldwide notoriety [Music] you know April 20th of 99 was it was a typical day I was eager to get my grades bumped up because I was I was 15 at the time so getting a driver's permit was definitely on the horizon the morning definitely was just a regular day just starting my shift I was an emergency response specialist I just took regular phone calls to the Sheriff's Office as well as a 911 phone calls normal day we had ran a couple you know basic calls medical calls it was just like any other day I went off to work I was leaving that day for a conference in another part of our state Tom's 15 year old son made his way to Columbine High School Daniel was um very shy kid very shy very reserved but very sweet a very lovable kid he was someone who even as a teenager was not ashamed to give his mom a big hug students 16 year old Craig Scott and his 17 year old sister Rachel the morning had not started harmoniously my sister was in the car she was honking her horn uh because I was making us late and uh I had to have my hair just perfect and uh we got into the car together and she was kind of get on onto me about being late and we got into an argument this is the road that Rachel and I were on together to go to school and Rachel would pull into here to drop me off she was just asking me not to make us late all the time and and so we were kind of back and forth in an argument and we pulled up to the school and I got out of the car and I turned and I looked at her and I slammed the car door shut and I walked in the school I had no idea that'd be the last time that I'd see Rachel alive [Music] around 11 19 A.M Columbine school West entrance Sean Graves and his friend's world was about to change forever for lunch there was three of us that day that chose not to eat Dean robaugh Lance Kirkland and myself we stepped out the side door like we typically would we'd usually grab a soda at the vending machines right there and and we'd just jet up and take the path off only that morning things were a little different we were looking up at the top of the dirt Hill and we saw two two guys that were wearing all black they're black trench coats and with them they were carrying a couple of black duffel bags we witnessed them loading weapons um that we just assumed were were toys and that's when it started they showered us with with rounds and Dan and Lance both went down foreign above in the library Craig and his friend Matt were sitting revising you know we've we thought that we were hearing uh fireworks we saw students running away from the school they were trekking through the soccer field you know we thought that you know as a senior prank it's about that time for the uh the end of the year for for some silly prank to happen it was a tradition but this was no prank a nightmare that would shock the world had just begun at approximately 11 19 a.m on the 20th of April 1999 a deadly Killing Spree had began at Columbine High School in Colorado outside the school cafeteria 15 year old student Sean Graves and his friends Dan and Lance were being fired on by two teenagers dressed in black trench coats my body was completely behind a concrete wall so I was protected the only thing on me that was sticking past that was my backpack a bullet entered the side of my backpack spun around and actually shot me in the back and shot out my right hip and at that moment I lost my legs completely I was paralyzed from the waist down immediately [Music] what Sean had originally thought was a prank was far from it myself laying halfway in the school and halfway out and at that moment I knew that my worst nightmare had come true months possibly years before the shooting actually took place I had a reoccurring nightmare of somebody in my family or even myself being paralyzed it didn't make any sense then but the second I looked back at my legs I realized that that dream had come true and I was the one that was going to be paralyzed Sean lay in the doorway of the cafeteria and for hundreds of students inside the reality of what was happening was beginning to sink in all I remember from that moment was just the fear in their eyes looking at me and I'm sure I had fear looking back and that's when the fire alarm went off and the cafeteria started to evacuate [Music] okay guys [Applause] [Applause] over the prior year the two mystery Shooters had made several extraordinary videos foreign ly similar to the Spree to come the violent merciless attacks played out in the videos had now become a reality the two Shooters walked down to try and finish off everyone and I watched um one of the shooters shoot Lance in the face at Jefferson County Sheriff's Department Detective Kate Batten was just returning from an early lunch I asked what was going on they said that there was a shooting at Columbine High School so at that point I started driving towards Columbine and that's when it became surreal because the dispatcher was talking about snipers on the roof they were talking about bombs exploding just astounded that this is information that's being relayed in Suburban Littleton my secretary ran in the door was shut and she said there's been a report of shootings or gunfire and bombs explain I and I'm thinking what are you talking about I came out of my office and I ran down here and as I looked down the corridor I saw a gunman coming towards me with the shotgun when I was staring down and I made contact it seemed like the size of a cannon all I kept thinking is what it was going to feel like to be shot you know I thought of my family was I going to die quickly each time a bullet was fired from the gun then glass would chatter behind me they hear bullets exploding in that area and what really probably saved my life is girls coming out of the gymnasium in this Crossing Hall they were coming into the crossfire and I wanted to make sure that they were not hit by the gunman's gunfire I ran down to this hallway and I was able to get the girls into the gymnasium area in the hallways yeah [Music] six weeks earlier March the 16th 1999. in the mountains south of Columbine [Music] two Shooters recorded another video this time the weapons were real both were students at Columbine High School just weeks away from graduating seventeen-year-old Dylan Klebold and 18 year old Eric Harris back no no Harris was a young man that was in advanced classes uh you know he had dreams of going to the military he was going to be applied or to enlist in the Marines clebolt was a kid who a few weeks prior had visited one of the state universities in Arizona so his plan was to go to college Cleveland was at prom three nights prior now both Harris and Klebold seemed intent on the destruction of the school and everyone in it by 11 27 am the two shooters were in an area near the library where Craig Scott 201.