Eric and Dylan had stopped shooting. They'd gone inside. I started to run away. Then, I hesitated. Should I try to help Anne Marie? She was lying there, still not moving.
I decided that the best thing would be to get real help. As the gunshots rang out inside the school, I ran across the soccer field. At the same time, this unbelievable stream of people, of panic, came out of the cafeteria. That's when the screaming started. Everyone was screaming. To get off of school grounds, I had to make it over a tall chain link fence. Somehow—don't ask me how—I just sailed over it. I was like Xena. The best way I can describe it is that I was on a mission.
I was running so fast that I could barely breathe. I thought my heart was going to pop. Finally, I saw a house with an open garage. I ran in. There was a phone, so I called The house belonged to an elderly couple who let me in and helped me contact my parents. As I waited to be picked up, I watched the news. I cried and cried as ambulances took my friends, including Anne Marie, away. For days, I didn't know if Anne Marie was alive or dead.
On TV, I could see my bookbag lying in the parking lot where I'd left it. Memorial items for Columbine: wreath with angel Beanie Babies, and book made by a first grade class I didn't get my bookbag back until June.
When I did, it brought back all of my fear. My bag had been trampled on as students ran for their lives. My hairbrush was broken, and all of my books were damaged. Eric and Dylan ruined so many lives. He allegedly said he wasn't sure if he would have been able to go through with the plan, but that for Kucharski, it was "definitely going to happen. Both Lewis and Kucharski are charged with unlawful possession or manufacture of weapons of mass destruction, terroristic threats with intent to terrorize, aggravated assault, possession of explosive material, and engaging criminal conspiracy.
Kucharski is also charged with risking catastrophe. The charges for the two juveniles have not been publicly released.
In a statement announcing the charges, Lackawanna County District Attorney Mark Powell said he does not believe there is currently an active threat to the school. Reach her at victoria. Another man, Philip Duran, who introduced Harris and Klebold to Manes, also was sentenced to prison time.
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The siege ended dramatically on April 19, , when fires consumed Klebold understands this instinct: for many years, she regarded herself with the same harsh incredulity. It also examines the horrific, decades-long influence of the Columbine shooting on other violent young men and tells, from the inside, the story of what happens to parents when their children kill others. Briefly: divorce, bankruptcy, illness, breakdown, followed by the more complex processes and rationalisations that allow Klebold to carry on living.
The most controversial element of the memoir, however, is what it asks readers to do with their notions of Dylan. At the time of the shooting, Sue Klebold worked in the same building as a parole office, and often felt alienated and frightened getting in the elevator with ex-convicts.
That they were just people who, for some reason, had made an awful choice and were thrown into a terrible, despairing situation.
But she is also asking that a fundamental reassessment take place of what it is that can make teenagers kill. Contrast can make colours shine brighter and there is, perhaps, a pull towards casting his infancy as particularly angelic, in light of how his life ended. It has taken Klebold a long time to reclaim this image of Dylan. In the aftermath of the shooting, she effectively lost him twice: first, physically; then as a memory. How does one mourn a kid one considered a decent and loving son when his photo appears on the cover of Time magazine under the headline The Monsters Next Door?
The decision to include childhood photographs in her memoir seems like a plea to remember that Dylan was once blameless, even cute. And cuddled. And held. And touched. And I had all kinds of pictures of Dylan on laps and with arms around him. Other misconceptions were easier to dispel. They were that kind of family, eating around the table every night, watching old movies together, collaborating on projects.
Whenever Byron, the eldest son, came over for dinner, Klebold would send him back to his apartment with a freezer bag full of food. This would sound gilded, except here is Klebold, revisiting every detail in a way that implies it might have been easier on her psychologically if there had been a catastrophe in the household, something pointing to why Dylan did what he did.
Instead, in the years before the shooting, there were only very ordinary domestic tensions. Tom Klebold, a geophysicist, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, damaging his job prospects and causing the couple to worry about money.
Then there was Byron. It was also evidence of the fact that, up to that point, the most Dylan had ever given them to worry about was being a little on the shy side. After the shooting, he would be characterised as a dysfunctional loner with a single, psychopathic friend: Harris. Klebold no longer thinks like this; one of the hardest tasks of the last 17 years has been to accept that Dylan played an equal part in planning and executing the massacre.
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