Unraveling the Mysterious Lives of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold: Columbine High School Tragedy - News Trends
Until January of 1998, Eric Harris and Dylan Kleboldlived fairly normal lives. Klebold, a Colorado native, was noted for his shyness and intellect. He and Brooks Brown both attended the Colorado CHIPS (Challenging High Intellectual Potential Students) program for gifted children starting in the third grade.
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Brown left within a year, citing the comp...See full list on allthatsinteresting.comBullying was fairly common at Columbine High School and teachers reportedly did little to stop it. For Halloween 1996, one routinely bullied junior named Eric Dutro had his parents buy him a black duster jacket for a Dracula costume. The costume fell through, but he decided that he liked the trench coat and the attention it got him. Soon his friend...See full list on allthatsinteresting.comAfter Halloween 1997, Harris and Klebold bragged about shooting trick-or-treaters with a BB gun.
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The same year, Klebold was suspended for carving homophobic insults into a freshman boy’s locker. Meanwhile, Harris started pushing people away. Unable to drive yet, he relied on Brown for rides to and from school. Brown, an admitted slacker, was routin...See full list on allthatsinteresting.comThe journals of both Harris and Klebold provide insight into both their planning of “Judgement Day” and their psychological makeup at that time. He looked into making napalm, and at one point tried to recruit Chris Morris into what he had planned for these explosives — playing it off as a joke when the other refused.
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Harris also took notesab...See full list on allthatsinteresting.comThe next morning, April 20, both boys got up and left their houses by 5:30 a.m. to begin final preparations. In some ways, the killers’ writings help decrypt the Columbine shooting not because of what they reveal about their emotions, but the details of what they had really wanted to do.