Numerous people from around the country have reported to Mr. John Quinn and the CRTF webmaster that they saw a large, blue “NATO” truck located on the Columbine High School grounds at about 11:30 a.m. It was shown from a helicopter. The cameraman zoomed in and immediately the video feed was cut. One source told CRTF, “I remember seeing a large vehicle — blue, black — I remember it being dark in color, as for blue or black I am not positive regarding the color. However I do remember seeing ‘NATO’ on the truck and I remember the shield on the vehicle.” The words “NATO” were possibly imprinted on a shield on the front of the vehicle.
Others reported seeing “NATO” SWAT personnel. A news video tape was sent by a source to Mr. Quinn which showed these men with “NATO” inscriptions in white on their uniforms/body shields. Quinn says the uniforms/shields do in fact appear to say “NATO”, although the video is of poor quality.
As bizarre as the NATO reports are, we feel they are completely credible since dozens of people initially reported to John Quinn the same facts independently, and some facts that had not yet been released by Quinn were corroborated independently by various people. Whether the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was present seems very unlikely and remains unconfirmed.
Sgt. Mark Lewis of the Denver Police Department offered us this explanation, “…could it have been NTOA, which stands for National Tactical Officers Association?” The following website offers an explanation per the NATO shields. A credible source also tells us that when viewing a Denver SWAT operation on TV in late 1999, completely unrelated to Columbine, he saw a large, blue truck with the letters “NATO” imprinted on the side. The truck was part of the SWAT operation.
According to ABC News, SWAT teams, at 12:00 noon, found “several explosive devices around the school”. By 12:30 SWAT Teams were allegedly making sweeps of the school. Parents gathered around nearby Leawood Elementary School. Some parents later complained that SWAT teams didn’t enter the school quickly enough.
“‘It was not two hours before a SWAT team went in,’ [Sheriff’s spokesman Steve] Davis said,” in response to questions about the slow response times of SWAT members. “Several other officers responded within three minutes, and the first SWAT team was in the building in about 20 minutes, Davis said. Efforts were slowed down by uncertainties about what was happening. A full-scale SWAT entry didn’t occur until about 1 p.m., about a half hour after the shooting stopped.” It is generally accepted that SWAT teams simply did not enter the school until 12:30 p.m. or thereafter. If they did enter “20 minutes” after the shooting began no lives were saved and no one reported a SWAT team’s presence at that time.
“We had initial people there right away, but we couldn’t get in. We were way out-gunned”, said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone. “Out-gunned” by two kids who couldn’t aim? There are indications that officers were receiving return fire from each entrance of the school during the first hour of the shooting.
“Shortly before 1 p.m., a second volley of shots rang out. Officers explained they were shooting to keep the gunmen down as deputies made their way into the building.” If the gunmen were dead by 12:05 p.m., who were the officers shooting at?
It must be noted that a bomb was detonated a few miles from the school earlier in the day before the shooting began. “The explosion of two backpacks a mile from the school 40 minutes before the shooting may have been linked to the tragedy.” The Sheriff’s Office later said that the bomb went off “three minutes” before the shooting began. The bomb went off a few miles away from the school and black marks remain on the sidewalk today.
Throughout the day it was reported by officials that 25 people were probably dead. That total turned out to be 15. A Denver Post article on April 21 stated, “‘I’ve heard numbers as high as 25’ deaths, said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone, adding that 17 were confirmed.” (17 were confirmed?) The article went on to say, “By 3:45 p.m., shots still rang out inside the school.” “One male student said he and three friends grabbed ‘all the kids we could’ and hid in a very small room — as many as 60 of them in all. ‘Then, after that, we just had to walk out over all the dead bodies,'” said a CNN report. It must be noted that there were no official reports of deaths in the halls of the school. The only deaths occurred in the library, outside the school, and one in a science room. Therefore, how is it possible that those hiding in the “very small room” made their way out into the halls and had to “walk out over all the dead bodies”? It is possible if more than 15 people actually died. “Jonathan Vandermark, 16, a sophomore, said he passed three bodies in a stairwell as he and other students were rescued from the biology lab by a SWAT team,” said The Denver Post on April 20th, indicating further that unknown bodies were seen inside the school. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported, “Inside the school, Jonathan Vandemark’s biology class turned over tables for protection. The 16-year-old saw the shooters set off flares inside the school, and smoke filled the halls. He and his classmates watched the television inside their classroom, and stayed there until a SWAT team ordered them out. They walked downstairs, past three bodies, bodies of students. Vandermark was sure of that: ‘They still had their backpacks on,’ he said…There were dozens dead in the halls of Columbine High School.” Salon.com writer and Denver resident David Cullen reported on the 21st, “Colorado authorities lowered the death count from 25 to 16 Wednesday.” CRTF would like to note that a witness told a Denver investigator that as he made his way through the halls of the school he passed bodies dressed in black “ninja” clothing.
The school was said to be “cleared” by SWAT teams by 4:30 p.m. A bomb was found later that night in a car and removed by SWAT teams. “Explosive devices were found in two or three cars near the school. Investigators are working to identify the owners of the cars and what their role was, if any, in the attack,” said CNN.
“Investigators said they need at least two more days inside the school to collect crime evidence. All bodies finally were removed by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The grim task was delayed in part because the killers spread live bombs around bodies”, said The Denver Post.
On the same day of the shooting a gas line leak was reported at 8276 S. Reed St., the home of shooter Eric Harris. The Littleton Fire Department responded at 2:24 p.m. that day. “Live bombs with live triggers and lots of gas found, they will be standing by for the bomb squad to clear the home, hand lines laid out and have connected to a hydrant,” the department reported. Spilled gas was found on the garage floor. A local neighbor reports sounds of “breaking glass” coming from the garage days before the shootings. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported on the 21st that student Matthew Good, a neighbor, “…heard a lot of noise coming from the Harris garage over the weekend. ‘It sounded like power tools and breaking glass,’ Good said.”
Newsweek reported further on May 3rd, “Matt Good, a 16-year-old neighbor of Harris’s, says that in recent weeks the boys were always in Harris’s garage, and last weekend they were loudly smashing glass; cops now say that was for the shrapnel in their bombs.” Newsweek also said, “Police searching Harris’s room last week found a sawed-off shotgun and pipe-bomb ingredients in plain view.” Apparently, the Harris parents were unaware of this.
A lot of stuff was clearly visible and the parents should have known,” Jefferson Country Sheriff John Stone said on April 24th. “I think the parents should be accountable for their kid’s actions.”
As for the two known shooters themselves, it appears Eric Harris, who kept a diary detailing plans for the massacre, had strong opinions and heavily influenced Dylan Klebold, who was considered quiet, unassuming and nice, though prone to temper tantrums. The shooting itself had been planned at least a year in advance. Both Columbine students “were ordered to perform community service work and attend an anger-management seminar” after stealing $400 of electronic equipment from a van in January 1998. The crime was considered a “prank” and both killers passed the community service and anger diversion program with flying colors.
The students both worked at Blackjack Pizza near the school and spent time bowling. (In the early morning hours of April 20th, Harris and Klebold attended their bowling class, appeared dressed in normal clothing, and exhibited no signs of agression, according to news reports). Both were heavily involved in anarchist or violent material, as well as hard-core industrial rock music. Klebold was a baseball fanatic (“His hero was Roger Clemens,” said friend Chris Hooker), and Harris played soccer and baseball. It was also reported that they hated “jocks” and athletes involved in sports, even though they were also involved in sports. They were both said to be racists, yet on Harris’s web site, he explicitly states he is against racism and expresses his patriotic “love of country” and desire to serve in the military.
Many people report that the two students were very vocal about their desire to unleash a rampage upon the school. Students report that they were aware that something could happen on April 20th.
It is said that Harris improved his attitude during this last semester of school, and Klebold, just weeks before the shooting, had attended the University of Arizona with his father, and his father had placed a deposit for a dorm room; Klebold was expected to attended later this year. Many consider Klebold’s parents to be excellent parents, while Harris’s parent’s background in parenting is less clear. Harris’s father, Wayne, has an extensive military background. The Harris family has left Littleton.
“That’s the scary part. He was talking about the future,” said Nate Dykeman, friend of Harris, commenting on a conversation he had with him during prom night three days before the shooting. The USA Today article further explores indications that Klebold and Harris were acting in a normal, capacitated manner days and weeks before the shooting. Click here to read this article.
The Trench Coat Mafia was a clique of students that had formed at least two years before Harris and Klebold “joined” it. It was formed by a young man named Joe Stair. This 1998 yearbook image proportedly shows Chris Morris and Joe Stair.
Reports that prior warnings of the shooting were posted on AOL were circulated a few days after the shooting by the press and by journalist Matt Drudge. Click here for an excellent ABC News web page that features a full story and the AOL Profiles posted by suspected Trenchcoat Mafia members.
Johnathan Vandermark made revealing comments to NBC’s Katie Couric later on that night about the “Trench Coat Mafia”. He said, “They like to say they are bi-sexual, and are proud of it. They practice Satanic rituals, I believe, and walk around the school in black clothing, usually in a trench coat. They’re clearly a gang. They don’t move for people in the hall. They’re not courteous to anybody. They’ll bump you in the shoulder or something like that…they’ll turn around and just give you a stare like they don’t care, and what can you do to them? Kind of like they’re above everybody.”
Vandermark made other comments, this reported by USA Today, “[School officials] act as if they never knew that these people were around the school. They were obviously a gang and thought that they could change the world in the way that, I guess, they thought Hitler couldn’t finish.”
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Before the shooting itself began on April 20th, school announcements were broadcast through video to every school classroom before lunchtime began. At the end of the announcement a cryptic message was relayed, “I bet you wish you weren’t here today — 4-20 — 4-20 — 4-20.”
“They obviously were very prepared”, said Patrick Simington in reference to the cryptic message. Read the full story here.
Another student, Evan Todd, also said that a message showed up on the TV monitors earlier before the shooting that said, “Today is not going to be a good day.” Who posted the message and was it in direct reference to the shooting?
On April 22, Jefferson County district attorney Dave Thomas said, “I think there is some evidence to suggest that other people were at least aware of what was going on and, as the sheriff (John Stone) indicated earlier, there are an awful lot of devices and this took a lot of time,” reported the Denver Rocky Mountain News in a story titled “The nagging questions: Did others help?”
The report went on to quote U.S. Attorney Tom Strickland as stating, “I think we have to pursue vigorously, at least for the time being, the idea that there may have been other people involved at least in the planning and knowledge that this might occur. There were other people who are knowledgeable or seemed to be associated with this group of people. What we are a little bit unclear about is how all these devices got here and whether other people assisted them.”
On April 23rd, according to a news report that day by Channel 9 News, Colorado governor Bill Owens toured Columbine High School and “emerged saying investigators were all but certain that the two gunmen had help from others. Police said security cameras may provide crucial evidence of a conspiracy. ‘There are backpacks with bombs in there everywhere,’ Gov. Bill Owens said. ‘The officers in there are convinced there had to be more people involved. There’s just too much stuff in there.'”
The report continues, “Officials returned to campus today to continue scouring for hidden explosives a day after the discovery of a powerful bomb made from a 20-pound propane tank heightened suspicions that Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, intended to destroy the school, and could have had help in assembling their arsenal. ‘They may have had confederates,’ said sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Parr.
“Explosives expert Sid Woodcock said propane explosives of the type found are ‘fairly sophisticated.’ Just one bomb ‘probably would have destroyed a good part of the school,’ he said. ‘These subjects were not only on a killing rampage,’ said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone, ‘They were going to burn the school up.’
“Larry Bettendorf of the [B]ATF says the propane tank was rigged with a can of gasoline and an egg timer. He says the bomb was poorly designed and that may be why it never exploded. Or he said gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold may not have had time to set the timer. Bettendorf says the big question for now is how the gunmen got such a big bomb into the school.”
An ABC News report from April 23rd outlines clearly that the propane kitchen bomb was a real bomb. The sheriffs office now claims bombs were never found in the kitchen. “The large bomb that authorities found in the school cafeteria kitchen Thursday was a 20-lb. device attached to a propane tank that had shrapnel, including nails, attached to it. The bomb was set with an egg timer, matches and a model rocket fuse, said Lawrence Bettendorf, an ATF agent. When the timer went off, it would trigger the match, which would light the fuse and ignite a gas can next to the propane tank. The bomb would have been enough to seriously damage the school building, but not level it, authorities said. A bomb squad removed and safely defused the device Thursday.”
(By May 7, the final word was that 60 bombs were found in and around the building. A total of 67 bombs has also been reported. As of June 2000, the number is over 90).
A student named Makai Hall refused to discuss with reporters some of the things he saw during the shooting rampage. Hall was injured in the library by shotgun fragments during the shooting. “The teenager explained why he was not willing to describe everything he saw and heard during the shooting rampage. ‘People have asked me not to discuss some things. And some things I don’t feel people should know,'” said Hall cryptically.
Commenting on a 20 pound propane bomb found inside the school kitchen, District Attorney Dave Thomas said, ”No one saw them carry it into the school and people did see them enter. So we have to explore how that device got into the school.”
Also on April 23rd, Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Davis said, “We feel like there’s an extremely good chance that there are more than two people involved.” He also said, “It’s a feeling from our investigators that the chances are very, very good that we have more than two people involved.”
April 23rd Jefferson County Deputy District Attorney Mark Pautler appeared on CNN’s “Burden of Proof” (12:45 pm ET) and was asked if any witnesses had said they had seen more than two gunman, he answered: “I’m not at liberty to answer that question.”
Also on the 23rd The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported the following:
One Columbine High School student and the parent of another said they had been questioned by police about a teenager suspected of lugging duffel bags of bombs into the school and fleeing before the assault that left 15 people dead and 23 wounded. The teen-ager disappeared, according to his friends, who are cooperating with investigators.
The Columbine student and the parent said investigators told them not to mention the third suspect or reveal his name.
“We cannot tell anyone who it is,” the student said. “They don’t know where he is.”
She said detectives have interviewed the boy’s family twice.
She said he was not present when Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fired on teachers and students.
“He left before it even happened,” she said.
A bomb was also found “tucked away in the school kitchen late Thursday morning…fashioned from two 20-gallon propane tanks.” (It must be noted that Jeffco spokesman Steve Davis, in a personal phone conversation with CRTF recently, denied that bombs had been found in the kitchen).
A construction worker said that about 10:40 a.m. Tuesday — 40 minutes before the gunfire erupted — he saw an older-model black BMW carrying four teen-agers about a block from the school.
The driver made a U-turn and drove off, followed closely by a tan sedan carrying two more teen-agers.
“It’s unusual to see four young kids in a BMW,” construction worker Roger Anderson said.
Anderson later said that he knew it was Klebold’s car since he saw the BMW sitting in the school parking lot on television as the shooting unfolded. The Rocky Mountain News article continues:
One student insisted that a third teen was part of the attack.
The student, whose mother asked that he not be identified, said he was in the parking lot and saw two people wearing trench coats — Harris and Klebold — and a third teen-ager in a white T-shirt.
“The kid in the white T-shirt, he threw what looked like a grenade on top of the school, and then he turned and kind of smiled at the other two guys,” the student said. (source for above material)
“It’s kind of hard to go blazing into a school when you’ve got more than you can carry. It could be a third, it could be four, five, it could be six, it could be numerous”, said Sheriff Stone of possible gunmen on the 25th. Also on the 25th The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported, “Officers were told there could be as many as six killers.”
On April 26th, Sunday, Vice President Al Gore, wearing a black trench coat (click here for the picture), Governor Bill Owens, singer Amy Grant, Gen. Colin Powell, among others, attended with at least 70,000 citizens the memorial service in Clement Park next to the high school. (The Columbine Memorial Service Videotape can be ordered by calling Bayaud Industries at 303-830-0478. Cost is $37 and it runs 2 1/2 hours.)
Three teenagers dressed in fatigues were found near the school and quickly arrested on the day of the shooting. In a report released by CNN on April 28, “The three, according to [Sheriff John] Stone, said they had heard reports of the shooting on the radio. Stone said those comments were made before the radio report had aired. ‘From my understanding from talking to the officers right at the scene, that is the alibi, or the statement that they had used: that they heard about this on the radio. And that was very early on into the investigation, which sparked my suspicion of these individuals. I have not been one to follow up with the investigations with these individuals to find out what had transpired since then.
“He said if investigators were ‘satisfied these people just happened to be three innocent people in fatigues walking by a siege of the school, stranger things may have happened.’ Stone also said the three teens named the gunmen before the names of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had been released. Stone also said a video tape from a surveillance camera in the school cafeteria was being examined. ‘From what I understood from our investigators,’ Stone told reporters, ‘there is graphic information on there, and it was being sent to Washington, D.C. to the FBI lab to have this tape enhanced.'”
More of Stone’s comments were revealed in an Associated Press article, dated the 28th. “They were in combat fatigues. They said they heard it on the radio. Well, it wasn’t on the radio at that time. They are subjects of our investigation. We’ll be going back to talk to these kids.” Stone had felt the students were involved. He said, “There’s too much stuff in there. You can’t walk in there blazing with more stuff than you can carry.” The AP article continued, “The three young men, who Stone said knew the gunmen and had previously been associated with their ‘Trench Coat Mafia,’ have maintained their innocence. Investigators tested them for gun residue after the shootings and found no evidence that they had fired guns. The Denver Rocky Mountain News identified the three as Matthew Christianson, Matt Akard and Jim Branetti. All three claimed to have heard of the slayings on the radio (although no announcement had been on any eadio station at the time of their arrests) – and were able to name the gunmen – before the names had been released, Stone said. He said one had been expelled from Columbine High.”
Stone also said, “[The gunmen] shot the hell out of the administration office, but apparently there was no one in there.” The current “official story” does not account for Harris or Klebold making their way across the massive school to the administration office.
The AP article continues, “The sheriff also said the two gunmen initially tried to escape through three separate exits, and killed themselves only after being turned back by deputies’ gunfire each time. Stone said a diary seized at the home of one of the killers indicated the gunmen planned to fly to Mexico or another country if they could escape, and kill themselves if they couldn’t get out. ‘They wanted to go to Mexico, or find an island, some place to get away from America, or maybe come out and hijack and crash an airplane in New York City,’ he said, giving details from a diary that investigators have characterized as a sheaf of papers.
“Gary Sowell, 50, an employee at a Hugh M. Woods store in Littleton, told investigators he saw Harris and Klebold buy propane tanks, wire, screws, nails and duct tape – material believed used in the bombs. He also said he copied keys marked ‘Do Not Duplicate’ for the teens. Police have said they are searching for a missing set of keys to the school, which authorities speculate may have allowed the killers to carry bombs inside before the attack. ‘I duplicated some keys for them, two sets of keys. On the keys it said ‘Do Not Duplicate,” Sowell told the Post. ‘They brought in a set of five keys.'” (source for all of the above) (Sowell was then oddly arrested a few days later for “making a false report to authorities” and falsely claiming that he had seen the two gunmen. Authorities said inventory records showed he was lying and he was booked with $1,000 bonb. John Stone commented, “Maybe this will slow down some of these crackpot calls that we’re getting. ” [source] [source 2])
It is possible that the shooters gained access to the school the night before the shooting or on prom night over the weekend. A parent of two Columbine students told CRTF that a suspicious student — not Harris or Klebold — was seen outside the school the night before the shooting. At the time, the parent was unable to recall the name of this particular student.
On the night of the 28th, a hasty news conference was held by Sheriff Stone in an effort to “clear things up”. Apparently, Stone was “dragged out of bed” by an official and driven to the news conference. It was then reported that the three above young men found near the school were no longer suspects. Officials said that Stone had been ill-informed when he made his comments on the three young men earlier that day. An updated AP article went on to say, “Initial reports that 25 were killed were eventually revised to 15. Investigators first said three gunmen were in the school, then changed that to two. Investigators said a girlfriend of one of the gunmen bought a handgun and a rifle used in the crime – and then on Wednesday said she actually bought two shotguns and a rifle.”
Meanwhile, it emerged on April 29, in a report by CNN, among others, that Eric Harris was rejected by Marine Corps recruiters just five days before the massacre because he was on an anti-depressant medication known as Luvox. The drug, said the report, is most commonly prescribed to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.
On April 29, in an article titled “Striker patches for igniting bombs suggest rampage carefully planned”, the Denver Rocky Mountain News reported, “[The shooters] preparations even went down to wearing abrasive striker patches so they could ignite match head fuses on their pipe bombs with a stroke of the arm. More than 50 homemade bombs, some powerful and sophisticated, others crude and simple, exploded or were recovered in the investigation. Capt. Phil Spence of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department said the bombs were made of carbon dioxide canisters, galvanized pipe or metal propane bottles. Some of the bombs were more sophisticated, equipped with timing devices, such as one in a backpack that exploded near South Wadsworth Boulevard and Ken Caryl Avenue as a diversion minutes before the rampage. ‘They may have been crude in some ways, but I saw one that blew a hole clear through a wall in the library,’ Spence said.”
On April 30th it was revealed that the Klebold family had been receiving “threats” after the shooting.
By May 1, the parents of Eric Harris, Wayne and Kathy Harris, refused to talk with investigators without immunity from criminal prosecution. Meanwhile, that same day, 8,000 people protested the National Rifle Association convention in Denver.
Also on May 1, the Sheriff’s Department indicated that, “the two students blamed for the Columbine High School massacre apparently acted alone and it is not likely others will be charged in the attack”, said a CNN report.
On May 3 students of Columbine began classes at Chatfield High School. Ten friends of Harris and Klebold were asked not to return to school for the remainder of the year. (source 2)
This same day, Mark Edward Manes is arrested for providing either Klebold or Harris with a 9mm pistol. Manes is said to have shown integrity throughout the shooting ordeal and had no prior knowledge the shooting would take place.
On May 5, “Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone reiterated his belief that Harris and Klebold may have had help in carrying out the attack”, reported the Denver Rocky Mountain News. The Denver Post quoted Stone as saying, “There was quite possibly one other person shooting. We do have witness statements.” (source2)
Stone came under attack for comments made about student Brooks Brown, who was told by Harris as he unloaded duffel bags before the shooting to leave the scene. “I believe Mr. Brown knows a lot more than he has been willing to share with us,” said Stone. The Brown family blasted back, noting that they were originally responsible for reporting to the sheriffs office that Harris had a web site with death threats toward their son.
On May 6th spokesman Steve Davis said, “We have had a lot of witnesses tell us there was a third suspect and we’ve said that from day one. But, from day one, we’ve said we hadn’t had any concrete evidence to show that.”
On May 8th the Denver Rocky Mountain News released an article raising concerns over Dwayne Fuselier, the FBI official in charge of the Columbine investigation. Fuselier’s son attended Columbine in 1997 and during that time produced a school film depicting trench-coated teenagers shooting up the school and eventually blowing it up.
“Witnesses have also indicated the possibility of a third gunman,” said Lt. John Kiekbusch during a news briefing on May 12.
On May 13, The Denver Post released an article also detailing Dwayne Fuselier’s son’s video creation. This article sheds a more flattering light on the Fuseliers (the son’s name is Scott) then the Rocky Mountain News article. “I’ve searched my heart and my soul for anything that was wrong here – that the kids (who made the video) should not have done. There certainly was no evil intent…It is a terrible irony, and they would never make that video again,” said Fuselier, who’s younger son, Brian, attends Columbine currently. The Post reports, however, that the video depicts laser battles “over Colorado”, and Columbine is indeed destroyed at the end, but by a laser instead of bombs, which turns the building into a ball of fire. Scott Fuselier is also quoted defending the video.
The Associated Press also released an article on the matter (May 8). The article reveals that, “[Dwayne] Fuselier is best known as one of the top negotiators in the ‘Freeman’ standoff in Montana. He is a former member of an elite FBI squad known as the Crisis Management Unit.” (Much controversy surrounded the Freemen standoff. Reports of unfair if not brutal treatment and abuse of imprisoned Freemen followed the incident. For more Freemen info click 1 or 2).
The article also stated, “In a call to the agent’s home, a woman who answered the phone said, ‘Scott and the boys that are with that movie don’t want to talk about it.’ In a later call, Dwayne Fuselier refused to comment. ‘You can stop right there – nothing, goodbye,’ he said Thursday evening when a reporter began asking about his son’s connection to the video.”
“They purportedly have some level of involvement, ranging from advance knowledge to being present during the incident,” said Lt. John Kiekbusch on May 14 in reference to a few friends of both Harris and Klebold. Considered a “straw buyer” at first, friend of Harris and Klebold, Robyn Anderson, 18, had bought the two gunmen the rifle and two shotguns used in the attack.
Authorities are said to be questioning a few friends of Harris and Klebold, says a Denver Post article, dated May 15, which details the involvement of the possible accomplices.
On May 14th, in an Associated Press article, Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Davis is quoted as saying, “[Some students] are very adamant about the fact that there was a third gunman. All along we’ve been trying to prove or disprove that theory…From day one we’ve always felt like there was a very good possibility that that more people were involved. It may not mean that there were people actually in the school that day, but there’s a good possibility that people were involved in ways such as supplying weapons or maybe building explosive devices.”
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