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> LITTLETON, Colo. (April 20, 1999 6:35 p.m. EDT
> http://www.nandotimes.com) - Three young men dressed in fatigues and black
> trench coats opened fire in a suburban high school Tuesday, scattering
> students as gunshots ricocheted off lockers in what police called a suicide
> mission. Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone said 25 people may have been
> killed. Two suspects were found dead inside the library hours later, he said.
>
Ok, I guess the trenchcoats were either open or short enough to see the fatigues...
>
> He said the gunman who were found dead in the library at Columbine High
> School were students.
>
Gunman or gunmen? Did he have a school roster with their pics?
>
> "It appears to be a suicide mission," Stone said.
>
It does? Or did the SWAT team make sure of that....
>
> It was not immediately known if the others killed were students or teachers,
> police said. Explosions also were heard in the school, and police said they
> had to search for bombs, slowing them down as they looked for victims.
>
Killed? I thought it was 'suicide'...
>
> Some 4 1/2-hours later, police led away a student from the school in
> handcuffs.
>
Just for everyone to see...
>
> "He's one of the ones who shot at us," said Chris Wisher, another student.
> Police had no immediate comment.
>
Hey kid, take the binoculars and look at those 6 SWAT guys dragging that kid. Was
that one of them?
>
> Nearly two hours after the 11:30 a.m. shooting, SWAT team members entered
> the building and 15 to 20 students fled. The frightened students ran out with
> their hands in the air and were later frisked by police. Several other groups of
> youths ran from the school in the following hours after an armored car was
> brought to an entrance for cover.
>
This is even better. What great T.V. (I saw this).
>
> SWAT team members searching the building were able to see some
> wounded students but couldn't reach them because the area wasn't secure,
> said Steve Davis, spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
>
> Television images, broadcast nationwide, showed police cars and
> ambulances at a staging area near the school, and helmeted officers in
> camouflage gear. At one point, a bloodied young man dangled from a second-
> floor window, his right arm limp, and was helped down by two SWAT team
> members. His condition was not immediately known.
>
> "We believe there are a few more victims," Davis said earlier. "We're hearing
> from deputies who can see from their vantage points more victims."
>
> One student, Kami Vest, called her father as she hid in the school with 30
> other students. "They have been able to call out on a cell phone and tell us they
> are OK," Dale Vest said. He said at midafternoon that she remained in hiding.
>
I thought cell phones weren't allowed in school.
>
> President Clinton asked Americans to pray for the students, parents and
> teachers.
>
While we keep killing those 'thugs' in Kosovo...
>
> Shortly after the school was stormed, three youths wearing black were
> stopped by police in a field near the school. The Colorado Bureau of
> Investigation told KUSA-TV the three were friends of the gunmen and were
> taken in for questioning.
>
Guilt by association (wearing black)?
>
> Some witnesses said there were two gunmen and the shootings took place
> around the school, including the cafeteria and library.
>
Possibly 2 more?
>
> "At first we just though they were firecrackers until we saw the guns come out
> of the trench coats," said student Justin Woods.
>
Do people nowadays need to see a gun to tell the difference between the sound?
>
> "They walked down the stairs and they started shooting people," said another
> student, who gave her name as Janine. "We didn't think it was real and then
> we saw blood." Her voice broke with anguish as she spoke.
>
Now you need blood?
>
> She said it was two young men, wearing black trench coats.
>
> "They were shooting people and throwing grenades and stuff. ... Me and my
> friends got to my car and drove off," she said.
>
No big deal.... another day at school.....
>
> Bob Sapin, another student, also said the gunmen were all in black, in trench
> coats and masks.
>
No fatigues? Musta been another group...
>
> "When they started walking down the hallway, I ran and I ran and I hid in the
> bushes," he said.
>
> Eight to 10 students in the school wear black trench coats every day, students
> said. Josh Nielsen said they are known as the "Trench Coat Mafia." Another
> student, Jason Greer, called them "jerks." "They are really strange, but I've
> never seen them do anything violent," he said.
>
Surprise. These strange jerks are violent. What is with the dress code?
>
> Sean Kelly, a 16-year-old junior, said members of the group kept to
> themselves and were "kind of gothic. They are wearing dusters. They wear
> them every day, all black clothing."
>
> "They're into guns and stuff like that," he added.
>
I thought gothic people liked vampires and the militia likes guns.
>
> At the adjacent Clement Park, students were shaking and crying as parents
> searched to find their children. Police helicopters whirled overhead and
> hundreds of police officers patrolled the area and a nearby park.
>
> At least 19 people were taken to hospitals, including a girl who suffered nine
> gunshot wounds to the chest. Kari Mackecher, spokesman for HealthOne,
> which runs Swedish Hospital, said four students were taken there, all in
> serious condition but conscious, and a fifth was en route.
>
9 in the chest? You can't count that many on the scene....
>
> Five other hospitals reported getting 14 people, at least one of them in critical
> condition. The 20th injured person was the young man taken out of the school
> window at midafternoon.
>
> Denver and Littleton police, and Jefferson County and Arapahoe sheriff's
> deputies were helping on the scene.
>
> Columbine High is in the middle-class suburb of Littleton, population 35,000,
> southwest of Denver. Single-family homes line winding roads through the
> neighborhood.
>
> The school opened in 1973 and has an enrollment of about 1,800. Nearby
> schools were put on a lockdown status, with students prohibited from entering
> or leaving.
>
> A series of school shootings since 1997 shocked the nation and led to calls
> for tighter security and closer monitoring of troubled students. Two were killed
> at a school in Pearl, Miss., three at West Paducah, Ky., five at Jonesboro,
> Ark., and two at a school in Springfield, Ore.
>
> --
I watched the sheriff talk to CFR Tom Brokaw. His eyes went right left right left as
he read the script to Tom on live T.V.
What a poor job of reading.
Kevin
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