-Caveat Lector- So...criticize the cops, and what do you get? ======================================================= Colorado Sheriff Fingers Family Critical of Police Reuters 04-MAY-99 LITTLETON, Colo., (Reuters) - The investigation into the Columbine High School massacre took a sour turn on Tuesday as a sheriff voiced suspicions about a teen whose parents accused his department of shrugging off warnings about the gunmen. Since the April 20 massacre in which 15 people died at the school, Judy and Randy Brown have charged that police did not follow up complaints that Eric Harris, one of the gunmen, had threatened their son Brooks over the Internet. In a TV interview on Tuesday, Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone hit back, saying it was suspicious that Harris warned Brooks Brown to stay out of the school building on the day of the shooting. "Brooks Brown could possibly be a suspect. Brooks Brown's statements ... got some irregularities in them. Mr. Brown as well as several others are in the investigative mode," the sheriff said on the "Today" show on NBC. Stone has come under fire for making statements that his spokesman later had to retract, including one in which he said that three teens arrested near the school on the day of the shooting were suspects, when, in fact, they had been cleared of any involvement. He also gave an early death toll in the massacre as up to 25. The sheriff's office said Stone was busy in meetings all day and would not be available to comment further on his interview. But the Browns were furious. Randy Brown, father of Brooks, said the FBI does not consider his son a suspect in the case and that Stone and local police were looking for scapegoats. "It's incredible, it's wrong. He should be ashamed of himself," the elder Brown told the "Today" show. His wife Judy added, "Brooks tried to stop this and now Brooks is being blamed for it." Randy and Judy Brown told police in March 1998 that Harris threatened their son Brooks via the Internet. But the complaint was dropped because investigators could not locate the Web site and because the Browns requested anonymity, Jefferson County Lt. John Kiekbusch said last week. "We got some information on kids that didn't get along," Kiekbusch said. But the failure to heed the warning has put authorities on the defensive. Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, who broke into a car in early 1998, were forced to attend a special program for youth offenders and ended up with glowing reports from a supervisor in the program. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported on Tuesday that Brooks Brown was supposed to be singing with the school choir at a memorial service on Sunday, but that he left the stage after classmates taunted him. A spokeswoman at the school district said she was not aware of the incident. Stone also said he still believed police would find more people involved in the conspiracy to attack the high school in this affluent suburb southwest of Denver. "I'm convinced the evidence will (indicate) there were more people involved ... New names are popping up ... We've got names," Stone said. More than 100 investigators have been working for two weeks but police have arrested only one man in the case. On Monday, police arrested a man suspected of providing a semi-automatic handgun to Harris and Klebold. The attorney for Mark Manes said his client knew nothing about the plans to attack Columbine High School and was devastated. If convicted, Manes could go to prison for up to six years. Police said Klebold's 18-year-old girlfriend, Robyn Anderson, furnished the gunmen with three rifles also used in the shooting. 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