Yet one more death to add to the twelve students and teachers killed and
twenty-six injured during the Columbine Tragedy, will it ever stop? (Mother of
Injured Girl Commits Suicide). Schools around the nation were threatened with
phone calls and letters about this event as if they wanted to copycat the
tragedy. So far Jeffco, Colorado has had four letters stating that they would
have the same thing done to their school. Most schools aren’t worried they
believe that the kids believe they will get a day or two out of school, because
of it, but since Jeffco has had four and it’s so close Littleton their not sure
what to do (4 threatening letters to Jeffco schools probed). A total of 18
families by October 19 had already filed civil cases against the county sheriff,
the school district, or both for amounts of one hundred thousand dollars to
anywhere up to ten million dollars. One of the cases is coming from the parents
of Dylan Klebold towards the county sheriff for not telling them about all the
violence Eric Harris had done in his life. The Klebold’s stated that if they
would have been told of Harris’s behavior that they would have never even let
Dylan be around him. The parents of Isaiah Shoels, one of the kids that were
shot during the massacre, are suing both the Klebold’s and Harris’s parents, and
the person who sold them the weapons. The Shoels announced they wanted to sue
for two hundred fifty million dollars, but unfortunately, for the Shoels, the
state cap for a wrongful death claim is two hundred fifty thousand dollars (18
Columbine Families File Lawsuit Notices). After six weeks of no one except
investigators and policemen in the school the police finally let them in.
Everyone had something to get or look at, since the kids all had to leave their
book bags in the school. A lot of the kids despised having to go back to school
where many of their friends were killed or even injured (A Sad Homecoming at
Columbine High). As of now in the little town of Littleton, the people are
decided rather or not to destroy the old library and build a new one, for over
three million dollars. They see the library as a horrible memory since ten of
the students were killed and that’s where the boys committed suicide (Library
Approval Delayed). This entire event got worse and worse as I read into it.
Before now I never knew what was written in the suicide notes that they had
written, but now that I do it’s really unbelievable that a human could think up
such a thing and actually do it. It’s one thing to think about doing it, but
strictly another going through with something so gruesome. I believe all of us
feel left out sometimes, or maybe just seeing everything go wrong from them and
that everyone’s against them, but I don’t see it in anyone to take that hated to
these extremes.
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