Cool Hand Luke 22:36
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Pretty good timing what with the AWB being pushed in the Senate this week.
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Grisly Columbine Evidence Put on Public Display
Updated 4:27 AM ET February 27, 2004
By Keith Coffman
GOLDEN, Colo. (Reuters) - Black trench coats and an arsenal of weapons from the Columbine High School massacre were put on display on Thursday, while a report said police had 15 contacts with the teen killers two years before the attack, but nothing led them to suspect the murderous spree the two had in mind.
Security was tight at the Jefferson County fairgrounds where tables of evidence from the April 20, 1999 massacre were set out with deputies stationed at every table.
Victims' bullet-torn clothes, cans of gasoline the duo had bought to destroy the school, spent shell casings and unfired bullets, propane tanks and a sign that read "One bleeding to death" created a somber mood as members of the public viewed the evidence, some reduced to tears.
Twelve students and a teacher were gunned down by students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, who donned black trench coats as they carried out the deadliest school attack in U.S. history. The two shot themselves to death at the school, but not before they had killed 12 students and a teacher and injured at least 20 other students.
Parents of children killed at the massacre had complained that police kept details of the massacre from them.
On the same day the evidence was put on display, an investigation by the office of Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar was released, showing police had numerous contacts with the two gunmen up to years prior to the shooting.
"These contacts initially involved incidents such as snowball throwing and a phone-prank call, but progressed to threats via the Internet and a van break-in," Salazar said.
"Hindsight is 20-20. All of us wish there would have been something done," he told reporters after issuing the report.
The sheriff's office also released videotapes the two killers made, including one called "Hit Men for Hire," which Salazar said was " sobering and disturbing view of the minds of the Columbine killers."
For Evan Todd, what caught his eye among the pieces of evidence on display was the bullet-riddled chair that he ducked behind in the school library as gunman Harris leveled a shotgun at him and fired.
Buckshot and splinters laced Todd's back, neck and face, but the back of the chair took the brunt of the blast.
"It was kind of like seeing an old friend, a friend who probably saved your life," Todd, 20, said.
Now a college student, Todd was a freshman on the day of the shooting when Harris and Klebold stormed the entrance with shotguns, semi-automatic weapons and an array of bombs.
Seeing the chair and other evidence, Todd said, brought back memories of that fateful day when he narrowly escaped death, but it no longer consumes him as it once did.
"For so long, my life was Columbine and now I realize that I'm finally leading a normal life," he said.
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Grisly Columbine Evidence Put on Public Display
Updated 4:27 AM ET February 27, 2004
By Keith Coffman
GOLDEN, Colo. (Reuters) - Black trench coats and an arsenal of weapons from the Columbine High School massacre were put on display on Thursday, while a report said police had 15 contacts with the teen killers two years before the attack, but nothing led them to suspect the murderous spree the two had in mind.
Security was tight at the Jefferson County fairgrounds where tables of evidence from the April 20, 1999 massacre were set out with deputies stationed at every table.
Victims' bullet-torn clothes, cans of gasoline the duo had bought to destroy the school, spent shell casings and unfired bullets, propane tanks and a sign that read "One bleeding to death" created a somber mood as members of the public viewed the evidence, some reduced to tears.
Twelve students and a teacher were gunned down by students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, who donned black trench coats as they carried out the deadliest school attack in U.S. history. The two shot themselves to death at the school, but not before they had killed 12 students and a teacher and injured at least 20 other students.
Parents of children killed at the massacre had complained that police kept details of the massacre from them.
On the same day the evidence was put on display, an investigation by the office of Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar was released, showing police had numerous contacts with the two gunmen up to years prior to the shooting.
"These contacts initially involved incidents such as snowball throwing and a phone-prank call, but progressed to threats via the Internet and a van break-in," Salazar said.
"Hindsight is 20-20. All of us wish there would have been something done," he told reporters after issuing the report.
The sheriff's office also released videotapes the two killers made, including one called "Hit Men for Hire," which Salazar said was " sobering and disturbing view of the minds of the Columbine killers."
For Evan Todd, what caught his eye among the pieces of evidence on display was the bullet-riddled chair that he ducked behind in the school library as gunman Harris leveled a shotgun at him and fired.
Buckshot and splinters laced Todd's back, neck and face, but the back of the chair took the brunt of the blast.
"It was kind of like seeing an old friend, a friend who probably saved your life," Todd, 20, said.
Now a college student, Todd was a freshman on the day of the shooting when Harris and Klebold stormed the entrance with shotguns, semi-automatic weapons and an array of bombs.
Seeing the chair and other evidence, Todd said, brought back memories of that fateful day when he narrowly escaped death, but it no longer consumes him as it once did.
"For so long, my life was Columbine and now I realize that I'm finally leading a normal life," he said.