[45] It was speculated that revenge for the arrest was a possible motive for the attack, and that the pair planned on having a massive gun battle with police during the shooting. Three!" The Maneses were ordered to hold $80,000 against future claims, and the Durans were ordered to hold $50,000. The movie centered around Rachel Scott, one of the victims of the infamous Columbine High School massacre that occurred on April 20, 1999. Harris followed up a few seconds later, "Brooks, I like you now. [14][15], Harris entered Columbine High School in 1995 as a freshman. I have the most memories from there," Harris continued. For other uses, see, Columbine Report documents, p. JC-001-008937. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are the main antagonists in the 2016 movie I'm Not Ashamed. [101], Initially,[46] the shooters were believed to be members of a clique that called themselves the "Trench Coat Mafia", a small group of Columbine's self-styled outcasts who wore heavy black trench coats. An officer pulled over the duo driving away. We don't give a shit. "[132] The fandom has received much criticism, by allegedly inspiring shooting plots by heroizing Harris and Klebold, such as the Halifax mass shooting plot.[133]. Login or Sign-up to show all important data, death records and obituaries absolutely for free! in unison, just before a loud boom. Join a discussion and talk to others in the Sysoon community. With millions of names, it's an invaluable tool for genealogist and history buffs. Yet the Rev. [94][134] In the film, the killers are called "Alex and Eric" after the actors who portray them, Alex Frost and Eric Deulen. Sean was in the commons with several friends including Dan Rohrbourgh and Lance Kirklin. Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11th, 1981 - April 20th, 1999) was an American high school senior who, along with friend Eric Harris, committed the Columbine High School massacre.The pair killed 13 people and injured 24 others before dying of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head feet away from ten of their victims. On the day of the massacre, Klebold wore a black T-shirt which had the word "WRATH" printed in red. [43] However, other commentators have disputed the theory that bullying was the motivating factor. Most did not know the shooters, apart from their association with Thiebault, and none were considered suspects in the shootings or were charged with any involvement in the incident. [80], Harris and Klebold wrote some about how they would carry out the massacre, and less about why. Harris was born in Wichita, Kansas, on April 9, 1981. "[93] Nathan Vanderau, a friend of Klebold, and Alisa Owen, Harris's eighth-grade science partner, reported that Harris and Klebold were constantly picked on. Once inside, they both engaged in another firefight with the police and rescue services in the parking lots below. Fucker should be shot. Grave site information of Lucy L Germain Carter (25 Jul 1911 - 10 Aug 2002) at Ashland Cemetery in Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, United States from BillionGraves The boys' probation officer discharged them from the program a few months ahead of schedule for good behavior. Due to these feelings, Klebold possibly sought validation from Harris. Harris created a set of levels for the game Doom, which later became known as the 'Harris levels'. In 1996, the Harris family purchased and settled at a house south of Columbine High School. Harris asked her to homecoming and she accepted. It was revealed that lyrics to KMFDM songs ("Son of a Gun", "Stray Bullet", "Waste") were posted on Harris' website,[86] and that the date of the massacre, April 20, coincided with both the release date of the album Adios[87] and the birthday of Adolf Hitler. [32][35] Classmates also related that Harris was fascinated by war, and wrote out violent fantasies about killing people he didn't like. Both Klebold and his older brother attended confirmation classes in accordance with the Lutheran tradition. Write a brief biography of the deceased and present it to the world. Harris sat down with his back to a bookshelf and fired his shotgun through the roof of his mouth; Klebold went down on his knees and shot himself in the left temple with his TEC-9. [58] After illegally acquiring the weapons, Klebold sawed off his Savage 311-D 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun, shortening the overall length to approximately 23 inches (580 mm). Their original plans indicated that when these bombs detonated, Harris and Klebold would be camped out by their cars and shoot, stab and throw bombs at survivors of the initial explosion as they ran out of the school. While sources do support accounts of bullying specifically directed toward Harris and Klebold,[41][42][43] accounts of them being outcasts have been reported to be false, since both of them had a close knit group of friends. "[138], The 2016 biographical film I'm Not Ashamed, based on the journals of Rachel Scott, includes glimpses of Harris' and Klebold's lives and of interactions between them and other students at Columbine High School. He concluded by saying that he would kill himself afterward in order to leave the world that he hated and go to a better place. They couldn't fight back. At home, the family also observed some rituals in keeping with Klebold's maternal grandfather's Jewish heritage. Page after page was covered in hearts, as he was secretly in love with a Columbine student. Their original plan was to blow up the school, killing approximately five hundred people, although thankfully, it did not work. The two quickly became smitten. Student Lisa Kreutz, injured in the earlier library attack, was also in the room, unable to move. You can even leave virtual flowers on the memorials you visit to complete the online cemetery experience. [17][18] Harris, during his freshman year, met Tiffany Typher, who was in his German class. Other leading psychiatrists concur that Harris was a psychopath. His parents were pacifists and attended a Lutheran church with their children, and Dylan and his older brother, Byron, attended confirmation classes in accordance with Lutheran tradition. This forced the Harris family to move around frequently before Wayne was forced to retire in 1993 due to cutbacks and he became a part-time caterer. [50], On January 30, 1998, Harris and Klebold broke into a locked van to steal computers and other electronic equipment. [23] As had been the case with his older brother, Klebold was named after a renowned poet, Dylan Thomas. Six months later, she saw the Basement Tapes made by Harris and Klebold, and acknowledged that Klebold was equally responsible for the killings. [7], Eric David Harris was born on April 9, 1981, in Wichita, Kansas. Brown lived near the house Harris' parents had bought when they finally settled in Littleton, and rode the same bus as Harris. In the piece, Klebold wrote: "For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused", and "Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family, and about love." The internet is a funny place. They went on the rampage, setting off bombs and shooting indiscriminately at students and teachers for 50 terrifying minutes before committing suicide together in the library. "I had a sudden vision of what he might be doing. They were later charged with mischief, breaking and entering, trespassing, and theft. [24], At the family home, the Klebolds also observed some rituals in keeping with Klebold's maternal grandfather's Jewish heritage. A memorial service for Dylan B Klebold. In exchange for her cooperation with the investigation that followed the shootings, no charges were filed against Anderson. Harris had a web presence under the handle "REB" (short for Rebel, a nod to the nickname of Columbine High's sports teams) and other online aliases, including "Rebldomakr", "Rebdoomer", and "Rebdomine". [34] By his junior year, Harris was also known to be quick to anger, and threatened people with bombs. We will remember him forever. Brown approached Harris near his car and scolded him for skipping his morning classes, because Harris was always serious about schoolwork and being on time. "[91][92], Accounts from various parents and school staffers describe bullying at the school as "rampant. An article by The Rocky Mountain News stated that Patti Nielson overheard them shout "One! In the 2003 Ben Coccio film Zero Day, which was inspired by the Columbine shooting, the two shooters are played by Andre Kriegman and Cal Gabriel and called "Andre and Calvin" after their actors. The pair had met while they were in the 7th grade. [3][4] The pair's aforementioned writings and videos gave insight into their rationale for the shooting. From their journals, Harris and Klebold had seemed to begin planning the attack by May 1998. It received very favorable reviews, including from the New York Times Book Review. She … Harris and Klebold left behind several journal writings and home videos, foreshadowing the massacre and explaining their actions, with what they hoped to achieve. [83][84][85], Harris and Klebold were both avid fans of KMFDM, an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko. [129], In 2015, journalist Malcolm Gladwell writing in The New Yorker magazine proposed a threshold model of school shootings in which Harris and Klebold were the triggering actors in "a slow-motion, ever-evolving riot, in which each new participant's action makes sense in reaction to and in combination with those who came before. Sysoon also contains listings for thousands of celebrity graves, making it the premier online destination for tombstone tourists. [99], In his journal, Klebold wrote about his view that he and Harris were "god-like" and more highly evolved than every other human being, but his secret journal records self-loathing and suicidal intentions. "I think I still make of it what I did at that time. "[11] Harris also added that kids would often mock his appearance. The room was officially empty of surviving students, except the unconscious Patrick Ireland who had been shot twice in the head and once in the foot, and the injured Lisa Kreutz. Harris and Klebold also have a fanbase, who have coined the term "Columbiners", who write fan fiction and draw fan art of them. "It was the hardest moving from Plattsburgh. [46][47] Harris' father erroneously stated that his son was "a member of what they call the Trenchcoat Mafia" in a 9-1-1 call he made on April 20, 1999. This is my story. What is Fold3. Dylan Klebold fires a sawed-off shotgun at a makeshift shooting range March 6, 1999 in Douglas County, CO in this image from video released by the... Columbine high school shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold appear in this video capture of a … Though some friends of Harris suggested that he had stopped taking the drug beforehand,[95] the autopsy reports showed low therapeutic or normal (not toxic or lethal) blood-levels of Luvox (fluvoxamine) in his system, which would be around 0.0031–0.0087 mg/ml,[96] at the time of death. View the latest documents, pictures, photos and images of or upload the files of your loved one. While some just have a scholarly interest in the pair or the event, the vast majority of these individuals, mostly young women, express a sympathetic, or sometimes even sexual interest, in Harris and Klebold. Coward #1 Dylan Klebold was cremated. Many people choose to share their Memorial Websites in Sysoon’s Featured Memorial Website Program. "[117], ITV describes the legacy of Harris and Klebold as deadly, as they have inspired several instances of mass killings in the United States. After the event, it appeared that Typher was no longer interested in seeing Harris anymore, for reasons never disclosed. 4.3K views View 11 Upvoters [65], By that time, Klebold had already arrived at the school in a separate car, and the two boys left two gym bags, each containing a 20-pound propane bomb, inside the cafeteria. Klebold, however, was concluded to be an angry depressive, who showed low self-esteem, anxiousness and a vengeful attitude toward individuals who he believed had mistreated him. There are differing reports: some say Harris and Klebold were very unpopular students and frequent targets of bullying, while others say they weren't near the bottom of the school's social hierarchy and each had many friends. [135], In 2004, the shooting was dramatized in the documentary Zero Hour, in which Harris and Klebold are played by Ben Johnson and Josh Young, respectively. At 11:19 am, he heard the first gunshots after he had walked some distance away from the school, and informed the police via a neighbor's cell phone. Just before shooting himself, Klebold lit a Molotov cocktail on a nearby table, underneath which Ireland was lying, which caused the tabletop to momentarily catch fire. [61], More complex bombs, such as the one that detonated on the corner of South Wadsworth Boulevard and Ken Caryl Avenue, had timers. The 13 th anniversary of the shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, is a time to remember the real lesson of Columbine: psychiatric drugs can turn kids into killers. [123] According to psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a legacy of the Columbine shootings is its "allure to disaffected youth. Klebold wrote that life was no fun without a little death, and that he would like to spend the last moments of his life in nerve-wracking twists of murder and bloodshed. Stating that she had no clue of her son's intentions, she said, "Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the intention of dying there. "[125] Larkin wrote that the Columbine massacre established a "script" for shootings. Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were an American mass murder duo. Over time, they became increasingly close. [120], The Columbine shooting influenced several subsequent school shootings, with many praising Harris and Klebold, referring to them as martyrs, heroes or Gods. [42], "A lot of the tension in the school came from the class above us," Chad Laughlin states. While Harris was in 7th grade, he met Klebold. [114] It peaked at No. Harris replied, "It doesn't matter anymore." [8] On the day after the shooting, Klebold's mother remembered that shortly after Klebold's birth, she described what felt like a shadow had been cast over her, warning her that this child would bring her great sorrow. [102] The trench coat inadvertently became the members' uniform after a mother of one of the members bought it as an inexpensive present. Harris and Klebold were never diagnosed with any mental disorders, which is overwhelmingly uncommon in mass shooters. [107], Sue Klebold, mother of Klebold, initially was in denial about Klebold's involvement in the massacre, believing he was tricked by Harris into doing it, among other things. Birth date: 11 September,  The two largest bombs built were found in the school cafeteria and were made from small propane tanks. Like Dislike : Guest Guest: Subject: Re: Dylan Klebold. [84], Harris wanted to join the United States Marine Corps, but his application was rejected shortly before the shootings because he was taking the drug fluvoxamine, an SSRI antidepressant, which he was required to take as part of court-ordered anger management therapy. Klebold's mother believes Harris' rage, intermingled with Klebold's self-destructive personality, caused the boys to feed off of each other and enter in what eventually would become an infernal friendship. The sites openly espoused hatred for people in their neighborhood and the world in general. Get out of here. Investigators would later find that Harris and Klebold had enough ammunition to have killed them all. [23][25] Klebold attended Normandy Elementary School for first and second grade and then transferred to Governor's Ranch Elementary School where he was part of the Challenging High Intellectual Potential Students program for gifted children. Every Memorial Website celebrates the legacy of a life. By 12:02 PM, both Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had reentered the library. [37], A rumor eventually started that Harris and Klebold were gay and romantically involved, due to the time the pair spent together. "That happened while teachers watched. [75] Nielson said that she had never spoken with either of the writers of the article,[76] and evidence suggests otherwise. [106], One family had filed a $250-million lawsuit against the Harrises and Klebolds in 1999 and did not accept the 2001 settlement terms. Search the SSDI online for free now or subscribe for access to billions of other genealogy records. Several residents of the area claimed to have heard glass breaking and buzzing sounds from the Harris family's garage, which later was concluded to indicate they were constructing pipe bombs. Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:31 pm [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Shortly after, Klebold had met Harris and the pair quickly became best friends. Attention: Death verified by Social security index. , Death date: 20 April, 1999, Tuesday. "[45], Klebold said on the Basement Tapes, "You've been giving us shit for years. [22] Sue had worked in assistance services with disabled children. Shooter Eric Harris was taking the antidepressant Luvox at the time he and Dylan Klebold opened fire at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher and wounding 26 others before … [60], The bombs used by the pair varied and were crudely made from carbon dioxide canisters, galvanized pipe, and metal propane bottles. [115], On February 2, 2017, Klebold posted a TED Talk titled, "My son was a Columbine shooter. Meanwhile, Harris's Savage-Springfield 12-gauge pump shotgun was sawn off to around 26 inches (660 mm). "[116] As of August 2020, the video has nearly 10.8 million views. Harris and Klebold went to the west windows and opened fire on the police outside. Harris shortly after admitted to the theft. It was a passing feeling that went over very quickly, like a shadow." Harris and Klebold were both born in 1981. No one was injured in the exchange. When they rubbed against the bomb, the match head would light the fuse. Harris and Klebold reportedly discussed their motives for the attacks in these videos and gave instructions in bomb making. The website was shut down by America Online after the shootings and was preserved for the FBI. [55] Both also displayed themes of violence in their creative writing projects; of a Doom-based story written by Harris on January 17, 1999, Harris' teacher said: "Yours is a unique approach and your writing works in a gruesome way — good details and mood setting. 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Apparently, it referred to Dylan Bennet Klebold, a mass shooter who teamed up with Eric David Harris and the duo were involved in an incident on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado where they reportedly killed 13 people and wounded 24 … - Accuracy of the file, Hashtag: #sysoon74522655, #memorial74522655, grave74522655, #death, #funeral, #findagrave, #burial, #obituary. The Harris family moved to Plattsburgh, New York, in 1992, then to Colorado the next year when Wayne Harris retires from the military. The manufacturer of the TEC-DC9 first sold it to Miami-based Navegar Incorporated. Others have also dressed as them for cosplay or Halloween. This can be a wonderful, heartwarming experience for all. [40], At Columbine High School, Harris and Klebold were active in school play productions, operated video productions and became computer assistants, maintaining the school's computer server. Despite these conclusions, the exact motive for the attack remains inconclusive. [12][13] Harris' father took a job with Flight Safety Services Corporation and Harris' mother, a former homemaker, became a caterer. "No one noticed they were struggling, and no one took their suffering seriously," added another user. [33], Klebold was described by his peers and adults as painfully shy. Octavio Pena was 41 years old when Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.