Two cars with six kids arrived at school

 
   

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.

 

  
     

 

 

 

 

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       Police were reluctant to discuss potential suspects for fear that they would flee. “We have to be extremely careful with the information that we release. We don’t want to tip our hand to any potential suspect or suspects,” Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Davis said.  But investigators said they think there is a strong possibility the gunmen had accomplices because of the amounts of explosives and firepower brought to the school. But sheriff’s Lt. Dave Taylor said they have not identified any specific suspects.

 

Klebold and Dykeman


       Sheriff Stone warned, “If there was a third, fourth or fifth person involved, we’re going to find them.”
       One of the founders of the “Trench Coat Mafia” — the group linked to the two student gunmen — told NBC News that three members of the group had been questioned by police.

 Joseph Stair said none of the other members of the Trench Coat Mafia knew of a specific plan to attack the school but did expect some revenge on athletes at the school, after four years of battles.

   “We hated each other. We really did,” he told NBC’s Jim Avila. “The athletes would threaten us, leave notes in lockers. As they were driving by, they’d throw glass bottles and rocks and things at us. And so there’s large hatred built up between the two groups.”
       Stair said the gunmen — Harris and Klebold — did not ask for any help in their deadly assault on the school and knew enough about planning an attack and making bombs to pull it off alone.

   “They knew how to make just about every type of explosive you could make using household products,” he said.
 

 

 

Investigators of the Columbine Task Force have identified the following Columbine High school students and former students as being associates of Harris and Klebold:

 

 

 

 

Trench Coat Mafia members

     
 

 

Eric Ault, Josh Barnes, John Beachem, Thaddeus Boles, David Caravan, Eric Dutro, Nate Dykeman, Cory Friesen, Michael Hardesty, Zach Heckler, Jeremiah (Hiss) Hess, Eric Jackson, Patrick McDuffee, Chris Morris, Robert Perry, Charles "Chuck" Phillips, Horst Rossmueller, Brian Sargent, John Savage, Joe Stair, Andy Thomas, Eric Veik, Robyn Anderson, Chantel Beery, Brooks Brown, Pauline Colby, Kristi Epling, Brian Ford, Dustin Gorton, Kirsta Hanley, Nicole Markham, Alejandre "Alex" Marsh, Alyssa Sechler, Kirsten Theibault, Chris Tibaldo.
 

  
     


 


 

 

 

 

Joe Stair

     
 

Friday April 23rd, 1999

Exclusive: Trench Coat Mafia Founder

Joe Stair, one of the founders of the Trench Coat Mafia, reacted to the killings at Columbine High for EXTRA.

Investigators are beginning to believe more and more that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold could not have acted alone. The question now is: Who might have helped them? Eyes are turning toward the Trench Coat Mafia. Today EXTRA spoke with one of the founders of the now infamous group who gave us his side of the story.

"I never expected anything like this... I thought they'd beat somebody up... But I never thought it would be anything like this." Joe Stair still can't believe his friends Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a murderous rampage through Columbine High School. And this Columbine High graduate doesn't buy the conspiracy theories that could help explain how some 30 bombs were planted around the rambling high school, saying the Harris and Klebold were "very resourceful" and capable of doing it on their own.

Joe's mom, Lori, says she was fully aware of the group's interest in bomb making. EXTRA asked Joe why they researched bombs: "We did it out of boredom... We were interested in a lot of things..."

Suddenly, both boys gave up sports for computers. Then a student called Joe Stair, who graduated last year, turned the clique into the Trenchcoat Mafia, which Harris joined 20 months ago. Stair says he is appalled at what happened. ``We did stuff just for fun,'' he says. Not Harris and Klebold.

Fellow student Joe Stair, who hung out with Dylan and Eric, revealed, "The jocks continually taunted us. They called us faggots and they teased us. They would see one of us walking down the hall and push that student against the lockers."

"We weren't afraid to be different, to be ourselves," said Joe Stair, a friend of the two killers. Stair is a 1998 Columbine grad. "Abuse is an understatement," he said. "Every day for four years, walking home I'd have people throw things at me. Rocks, ice balls in winter, glass bottles at my head. That's just after school." During school hours, he said, there were death threats. Weekly. On lockers.

Stair passed a polygraph ?


  
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

In addition to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, multiple eyewitnesses also testified that they identified trench coat mafia members Robert Perry, Chris Morris, Joe Stair and Brian Sargent as being part of the attacking party. (in Perry's case at least 11 and possibly 20 named eyewitnesses). There was one more assailant whose description by eyewitnesses does not fit any of the others: a slightly older man whose darkish hair had blond, spiky tips; aka "the white T-shirted bomber" to Columbine buffs. THese IDs were buttressed by others who saw 3 to 6 suspects together at some point during the massacre or immediately beforehand, in addition to others who heard shooting going on in two places simultaneously, when officially the two named patsies-Harris and Klebold-were together virtually the entire time.

 

 

 

 



Patrick McDuffee

     
 

 

One of the trench coat gang-Pat McDuffee-told police that five of the seven named above were indeed inside the school with guns, in addition he named five more trench coaters-Eric Ault, John Beachem, Eric Dutro, Charles Phillips, and Eric Jackson- as being involved in the planning or bomb-building. And at least two of the female trench coat associates-Melissa Sowder and Alejandra Marsh- told other students that they had advance foreknowledge of the attack.
 

  
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cops are interested in finding out how the suspects snuck a bulky bomb weighing close to thirty pounds into the school's kitchen. A bomb made from propane tanks like on a backyard barbecue that has fueled speculation Harris and Klebold couldn't have acted alone.

Some students say it might have happened Saturday night -- after their prom in downtown Denver, many students went to an after-party at the school. When Dylan Klebold showed up decked out in tux and tails, many wondered why the boy who shunned social activities decided to attend.

"It had to have taken more manpower... It couldn't just have been these two." Christian Leplant was a friend of the dead gunmen. He knew them well and what their capabilities were. He's convinced the pair had help. "We can't be that stupid to think it was just these two kids... two adults couldn't have done this."

Suddenly, both boys gave up sports for computers. Then a student called Joe Stair, who graduated last year, turned the clique into the Trenchcoat Mafia, which Harris joined 20 months ago. Stair says he is appalled at what happened. ``We did stuff just for fun,'' he says. Not Harris and Klebold.

Fellow student Joe Stair, who hung out with Dylan and Eric, revealed, "The jocks continually taunted us. They called us faggots and they teased us. They would see one of us walking down the hall and push that student against the lockers."

"We weren't afraid to be different, to be ourselves," said Joe Stair, a friend of the two killers. Stair is a 1998 Columbine grad. "Abuse is an understatement," he said. "Every day for four years, walking home I'd have people throw things at me. Rocks, ice balls in winter, glass bottles at my head. That's just after school." During school hours, he said, there were death threats. Weekly. On lockers.

 
 
Joe Stair heard Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold talk of getting revenge against athletes at Columbine High School.

But Stair, one of the founding members of the Trench Coat Mafia, said they always expressed it in terms of "getting into a rumble."

"Nothing like this," Stair said Thursday.

Stair, who graduated in 1998, said the group formed about four years ago to protect its outcast members from harassment by "jocks."

The name was given to them by other students because of the long coats members wore. Instead of rejecting the name, he said, the group wore it like a badge of honor.

"Nobody really knew who we were," he said.

Said Thiebault: "We're computer geeks."

Stair said members were not "gothic" and not into Nazi symbols, although some members had checked out books on Adolf Hitler. They listened to music by German bands, "but so do a lot of people."

On another occasion a boy called "Little Joey Stair," one of the wraithlike Trenchcoaters who was friends with Harris and Klebold, looked up in a hallway to see three football players shoving him into a locker, saying,

The Rocky Mountain News also reports in another story, "Sophomore Amanda Stair was in the library when she heard a commotion in the hall. 'We hid under different tables,' Stair said. 'Two guys in black trench coats walked in. They said get up or they would shoot us. I heard a lot of shots and one guy put his gun down on the desk I was under.'"

The two groups "hated each other," said Joe Stair, who graduated from Columbine last year but hung out with the "Trench Coat Mafia" -- the self-described group of outcasts that included Harris and Klebold.

"We received a lot of persecution from the athletes, so I guess they just felt pushed too far," Stair said. "These were two very angry young men.

 

Trench Coat Mafia shocked by violence
By Lou Kilzer and Lynn Bartels
Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writers

Joe Stair heard Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold talk of getting revenge against athletes at Columbine High School. But Stair, one of the founding members of the Trench Coat Mafia, said they always expressed it in terms of "getting into a rumble."
"Nothing like this," Stair said Thursday. Members of the group insisted that they had no reason to suspect their two friends would turn to violence.
"We are all completely sick," said Kristen Thiebault. "We honestly did not think that anyone could do this that we know."
Stair said he last saw Harris and Klebold six months ago and had no reason to suspect they were up to anything. But revenge turned to mass murder Tuesday. The Trench Coat Mafia is a nickname for a group of students who hang around together at the high school. Harris and Klebold have been linked to the group, but members insist they were just acquaintances. Neither is in a picture of the group that appeared in last year's yearbook.
Stair, who graduated in 1998, said the group formed about four years ago to protect its outcast members from harassment by "jocks." The name was given to them by other students because of the long coats members wore. Instead of rejecting the name, he said, the group wore it like a badge of honor.
"Nobody really knew who we were," he said.
Said Thiebault: "We're computer geeks."
Stair said members were not "gothic" and not into Nazi symbols, although some members had checked out books on Adolf Hitler. They listened to music by German bands, "but so do a lot of people."
He said there were never more than 12 members.

 

 

 

 

Student's identify others

     
 

 

In addition to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, multiple eyewitnesses also testified that they identified trench coat mafia members Robert Perry, Chris Morris, Joe Stair and Brian Sargent as being part of the attacking party. (in Perry's case at least 11 and possibly 20 named eyewitnesses).

 These IDs were buttressed by others who saw 3 to 6 suspects together at some point during the massacre or immediately beforehand, in addition to others who heard shooting going on in two places simultaneously, when officially the two named patsies-Harris and Klebold-were together virtually the entire time.

 

  
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

52 eyewitnesses can't be wrong


There is a great deal of evidence that more were involved than just Harris or Klebold. Among the best evidence are eyewitnesses who saw and recognized other participants in the crime. The below lists contains most of those who saw and were able to name other attackers at Columbine, plus a few more whose descriptions of the shooter(s) cannot possibly be either Harris or Klebold.




The following eyewitnesses identified a 'Robert' or 'Robert Perry' as one of the attackers:


1) Cyrstal Archuleta(EP1-197)
"...she did see one person throw a pipe bomb. .....She told me at the time she thought it was Robert Perry."


2) Seth Dubois(EP21-125)
"...Seth told Katherine(Carlston) that Robert Perry was seen shooting a girl in the back while leaving the library."


3) Wade Allen Frank(EP1-91)
"Mr. Frank told me that he thought origonally one of the individuals(shooting) was someone by the name of Robert..." "He stated that the person was tall, approximately 6'3" and kind of ackward(sic) and gangly."


4) Bryan Frye(EP25-69)
"He stated that the person he had previously believed this shooter to be was Robert Perry. .....In a previous interview, after receiving his yearbook, he had told his father that he believed the shooter to be Robert Perry. He also stated that the gunman had bad acne."


5) Courtney Haulman(EP25-91)
"There was three guys. The guy I remember most was the main guy. He's over 6' tall and has long curly dark-colored hair. He was wearing a trench coat. His name is Robert Perry."


6) Lacey Hohn(EP1-186)
"...can you identify or descibe who was shooting? ....Ms. Hohn said that she does not believe it was Harris or Klebold. Ms. Hohn believes it was an individual named Robert."


7) Bijen Monty(EP1-110)
"I asked her if she saw the source of the shooting. She told me she saw who she thought, at the time, was Robert Perry with a gun hanging around his neck. She said she never actually saw him shoot the weapon.

"She asked me if I had any information in regards to Robert Perry. I informed her I did not."


8 ) Tessa Nelson(EP1-113)
"I asked her if she saw the source of the shots. She said she saw a male, who she thought was Robert Perry, wearing boots, dark jeans with dark hair, walking down the stairs outside the cafeteria. She said the male suspect pulled a gun and started shooting."


9) Katelyn Sue Place(EP21-285)
Kate said, "It was (Redacted). I'm almost positive of it. I remember looking him dead in the eye. He was in my debate class..... . ...Dylan kind of looked like Robert, but Dylan doesn't have the long face. Robert's teeth are messed up and he was smiling and I saw his teeth then. Kate said that she has since seen pictures of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, and she said, "It's not one of them."(Referring to the person she saw shooting out on the outside commons.)

"She remembers him shooting Ann Marie(Hochalter). .... Robert was just randomly shooting. ...Robert was still shooting. ....Kate said that Robert shot Ann Marie before he smiled at Kate. ....She looked and saw Jason(Autenrieth) trying to help Ann Marie, dragging her away from Robert, to the side."


10) Lacey Smith(4470)
"On the diagram she depicts (Redacted) as walking in through the doors, past where she was sitting, and going in about as far as they north end of the school store. It was at that time she heard the windows breaking and then realized she was hearing shots.

"....she did not have any trouble indentifying PERRY when he walked past her. I asked SMITH how sure she was that the person she saw and spoke with was (Redacted). I asked, "90 percent sure? 50 percent sure?" Her response was "100 percent sure." I then showed SMITH a photo lineup which included a picture of Dylan KLEBOLD, and asked her if the person who walked past her was in the lineup. She stated he was NOT in the lineup. .....As (Redacted) passed her and was near the commons area of the cafeteria, she then explained that (Redacted) pulled a weapon out from under his trench coat and started firing into the cafeteria.


11) Brenton Hooker(16397)
"....he turned around and observed an individual he thought was ROBERT PERRY(ex-student of Columbine High School) standing outside the door just to the north of the main entrance shooting a pistol in his direction...." ....HOOKER described the individual he thought was PERRY as 6'8" - 6'11" in height, very skinny, tight black pants, black trench coat..."


12) Tyler Chenoweth(1830)
"A student named Jen Smull saw through the (science classroom)door during the incident and said that the tall suspect had curly hair and was the student who came to a Halloween party as a warlock. He thought of Robert Perry based on that description."



The following eyewitnesses identified a (Redacted) as being the shooter, with the description fitting Perry's:

13) Tiffany Lien(968 )
"Lien stated she believed gunman number one was (Redacted).... ...Lien stated that she was approximately twenty to twenty-five feet away from gunman number one and looked at him face to face for approximately 25 seconds, frozen in her tracks." Tall male had long black trench coat, black jeans, dark brown hair. His hair was kind of long and had curls. He was skinny and his shoulders kind of hunched over. ...She also stated that the gunman had bad acne.


14) Kristen Long(20245)
"Long said suspect definitely had dark hair and a large nose, thought it might be (Redacted)."


15) Rusty Shyler(5464)
"The individual was very tall. ...Shyler saw his face partially and thought based upon his dress and size that it may have been (Redacted). He was a hundred percent sure it was (Redacted). He described (Redacted) as being 6'6" to 6'7" tall and having lots of zits."


16) Chris Thierren(1207)
Saw a tall shooter with acne, large nose, shoulder-length hair. "He stated that the picture he saw was of (Redacted) and he was 'pretty sure' he was the shooter he saw that morning at CHS."


17) Erin Walton(4139)
"Erin Walton said she knew one of the shooters, and that he not one of (the) two Eric and Dylan. ...he was a senior named (Redacted). and he was very tall, had bad acne scars on his cheeks.... "



The following witnesses did not identify the shooter, but the descriptions fits Perry's:


18 ) Pat Caruso(2683 and EP17-13)
"Thought the suspect looked like a trench coat student he has seen before who had bad acne, ....curly long dark brown hair, wearing black trenchcoat.... and a tie-dyed shirt, pink or yellow."


19) Justin Norman(3929)
"Upon the hill we saw a tall guy with blond hair, acne, big nose and buck teeth.... the guy had a handgun and he shot one kid in the ankle and another who didn't move." (Note: Accoding to Norman in a later interview, this was Klebold, though the description is more indicative of Perry.)


20) Joanathan Ballard(1765)
"One of the (trenchcoated)kids(who was walking the halls during the shooting-implied to be a shooter) was about 6'5" or 6'6",.... I later saw on channel 4 or 9 news, I'm almost positive, that same man or teen, on t.v., acting all worried." (Note: this can't be Harris or Klebold, as they died in the shooting.)



Others:


21) Nathan Anema(2359)
"....Anema identified (Redacted) as possibly being the person he saw throw a pipe bomb during the shooting at Columbine High School on 4-20-99. ...Anema stated that he initially thought the person that he saw throwing the pipe bomb was (Redacted)."


22) Katie Beer(6636)
".... when the incident began at Columbine High School, she initially tried to get out of the school by going toward the main doors on the east side of the school by the administrative offices, however, she said she saw a third shooter next to these offices and that this third shooter shot out windows at that location. ...Katy Beer told him this third shooter may have been (Redacted)."


23) Jason Brehm(719)
One of the shooters had a very round face, shorter than 5'11". Not Harris or Klebold.


24) Leanne Clark(1422)
"...Clark told her that she saw who did the shooting in the cafeteria, and that Clark identified (Redacted) as a gunman."


25) John Cook(756)
A couple of weeks after the massacre, "Cook said he believed he could ID both of the suspects if he saw photos of them again." Since everybody had seen the photos of H&K in the media, and knew they had died in the incident, Cook is clearly not talking about Eric or Dylan here.


26) Frank DeAngelis, School Principle(8018 )
"I also assisted the principle of Columbine, who was having hard time giving the pictures of possible suspects to the command post and was present when he looked at and identified one of the suspects he was named.(sic) The male suspect was in the custody of, I believe, Jefferson Co. Sheriff's investigators."


27) David Eagle(1878 )
"The guy with the gun had black hair looked like it was spiked shaved on the sides.(sic) It was also blond on top. 5'9", about 18 years old.

"He has since seen pictures of Harris and Klebold on television. ...David said that the person he saw did not look like the people he's seen on television."


28 ) Ashley Egelund(22671)
"Ashley was in north corridor when she observed (Redacted) and Eric Harris coming around the corner from the library.... She said Chris Morris was armed with a handgun while Harris was armed with a shotgun.(5248 ) ....both started shooting at Ashley.... Ashley did not know (Redacted) at first but she saw his picture in the yearbook and is positive it was (Redacted).

"... No photo lineup per Investigator Battan."


29) Amy Evans(22205)
"....Amy Evans said there was a third shooter and it was (Redacted)."


30) Joel Hatfield(19277)
"Joel Hatfield interviewed 4-29-99. Saw one shooter with excellent description of dress, physical, guns and movement. Could ID in lineup if needed." Once again, this cannot be H or K, as everybody was aware that H&K were in no position to stand in a lineup!


31) Mark Hengel(5901)
"Hengel identified Klebold and (Redacted) from the photograph in the attached 1A envelope.... Also attached is a 1A envelope is a diagram of Columbine High School indicating the diection of Hengel and the two individuals dressed in black."

Apparently the interviewing officer didn't like what he was hearing, and so the interviewer ends up telling the eyewitness what he saw:

"I then advised Mark Hengel that the skinny person he saw standing and shooting was Dylan Klebold and the person he saw standing over the duffel bag was Eric Harris."


32) AnneMarie Hochalter, gunshot victim outside the cafeteria(18218 )
"Advised that Harris/Klebold did not shoot her. .... Has ID on shooters."


33) Leigh Kamens(1422)
While in the 'green room' off of the science hall, she identified (Redacted) as one of the gunmen.

34) Tim Kastle(3416)
"As far as I know the suspects are Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, (Redacted) and I think there might have been two others."


35) Alicia Maes(3614)
"Alicia stated that when she first observed the male in the black trench coat, she thought it was a person known to her as (Redacted)."


36) Lucas Milne
"Saw (Redacted) in commons at 11am in a black trenchcoat and knows (Redacted). States that Dan Goin and Brandon Little and Bijen Monte saw (Redacted) shooting at school. Milne picked out (Redacted) in photo lineup.


37) Leiha Murphy(3828 )
In the cafeteria, notices commotion outside north-west door. "I saw a guy I recognized as (Redacted). He was running... Stair had his blond hair down. It's past his shoulders. He's about 6', tall, skinny, he was wearing a long black trench coat.... I saw nothing in his hands. He was observed a short distance from whatever was going on at the door. My thought was that (Redacted) was involved if there was a fight."

Stair named in the cafeteria map(see page 3830). Leiha also immediately picked him out of a photo lineup.

"I ask Leiha if she was certain that this individual was (Redacted). Leiha said "Oh yeah, I'm certain.... I saw his face full on. I remember seeing his face completely....(she said he stood in place for about 15 seconds)....I remember him graduating last year." She remembers him wearing 'makeup on his face and hand' and that because of that, he stood out from other students." (3836)

Also, at least four ear- witnesses heard the suspects refer to one of their number as "Joe".(Encinas, 2943, Herivel, 1927, McKenna, 3525, and Salazar, EP21-224)


38 ) Mark Opfer(1064)
"At the time, Opfer believed the taller person in the black tenchcoat who with(sic) the shooter was (Redacted)....."

(25625)
"CHS student Mark Opfer was interviewed on 4-27-99... In that interview Opfer stated that he believed (Redacted, wearing a trench coat) was standing next to a gunman and was involved in the shooting."


39) Josh Ortwein(1939)
"...Josh Ortwein witnessed the shooting and he was telling everyone he saw (Redacted) shooting a gun."


40) Bree Pasquale(18018 )
Library eyewitness, was made to beg for her life. Says the gunman lived down the street from her and played the character "Morgan" in a school play. She knew him, and he knew her. Definitely not H or K!


41) Jessica Rusch(2143)
"...she identified one of the gunmen at the Columbine High School as being an individual known as (Redacted)."


42) Cara Sander(EP25-203)
Describes gunman as pudgy, overweight, very full face, thick bushy eyebrows. IDs him as (Redacted), who is heavy-set with a round face, short dark hair and dark eyebrows. A copy of the CHS yearbook page with Brian Sargent's photo is included in her interview. [John Ungerland(1701) says Brian Sargent has a round chubby face and is a big guy with bushy eyebrows. He saw him that morning at school; Sargent was wearing a short sleeve white button-up shirt-a polo type.]


43) Mindy Pollock(10009)
Sees one gunman outside west entrance, holding a gun on the fence. ...Dressed in a "white dress-type shirt", short brown hair, with a "little bit of a gut". "POLLOCK stated she recognized the lower, #1 gunman as (Redacted)."(1095)


44) Trent Karnes(912)
Says one suspect... had on a white dress shirt or a white sleeve shirt, he was holding a rifle on fence, shooting at people outside of cafeteria. [Note: Officially, both H&K were wearing T-shirts during the assault.]


45) Jen Smull(2182)
In science hall, sees Klebold and an older suspect, 25-30, blond with short, spiky, buzz-cut hair.


46) Valeen Schnurr, gunshot victim in library(18969)
"Per Valeen's mother, Shari Schnurr, Valeen possibly identified her shooter as (Redacted)."


47) Jennifer Tindall(1226)
"....insisted that neither suspect she saw was Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold. ...Tindall picked out (Redacted) photograph as possibly being the male in the black trench coat."


48 ) Adam Thompson(21039)
"....he had seen a gunman shooting inside the school. Does not think it is the same as gunmen in the media."


49) John Vandemark(2216)
In the science hall, sees older shooter with dark hair, spiky with blond tips.


50) Erin Walton(2243)
In th science hall, sees suspect with short blond hair-"like he was going bald"-older, in his 30s.


51) Emily Wyant(641)
A week after 4-20, says to the interviewing officer "...she would recognize them again if she saw them again."


52) Chris Wisher(9832)
"....he recognized one of the shooters--the other shooter was the kid wearing black that was arrested and placed in cuffs and put inside a black police car. He said that he is 100% positive that he was the male that shot at him."

(EP6-265)
"Thought he recognized Chris Morris as being one of the shooters.... ...on the west side of the cafeteria."






"Let the Truth be out, and let the chips fall where they may"

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53) Aaron Welsh(610)
Can ID both suspects(on 4-22).

54&55) According to Hilary Snyder, Rachel Danford and Janel Phiebolt saw (Redacted) in school on 4-20. He was wearing a tye-dye shirt. Rachel alter sees (Redacted) down at Columbine Public Library.

56) Terry Lawson(10020)
ID other than H&K.

57) Monica Schuster(19470)
"Schuster saw gunman but did not believe it was Harris and Klebold."


Lisa Forgen(3005)
She sees 2 shooters, and tells IOs that she could identify them if she had photos. Interview given days after 4-20; the implication is that they were not H&K. (2+2=4)
 

Arthur Curtis(19444)
Saw two shooters, can ID them. (interview given on 4-28-99, the implication once again is that they were not HorK.


(DRMN 5-14-99)
"...people have reported that they saw others carry stuff into the building."

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

TCM Associates

Chris Morris
Brenda Parker
Robert Perry
Lydie Perry
Charles Phillips - Jew
Jessica Rusch
Brian Sargent
Joseph Stair
Kristine Theibault
Chris Tibaldo

Chris Tibaldo
Eric Veik
Deanna Veik

Devon Adams
Robyn Anderson
Eric Ault
Thaddeus Boles
Brooks Brown
Kelli Brown
Eric Dutro
Nathan Dykeman

Nathan Dykeman
Kristi Epling
Cory Friesen
Dustin Gorton
Krista Hanley
Zachary Heckler
Eric Jackson
Nicole Markham
Alejandra Marsh - Jewess
Patrick McDuffee
Chris Morris

Harris - jew

 

 

 

 

On April 20, 1999, Jefferson County Sheriff's Investigator Ralph Gallegos interviewed Christopher Morris, dob 06/09/81, shortly after the shootings at Columbine High School. Christopher Morris told Investigator Gallegos that he used to be part of the "Trench Coat Mafia" (TCM), and that he believed the people inside of Columbine High School doing the shooting were Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, and XXXXXXX. Morris said Klebold, Harris and Perry are also members of the trench Coat Mafia. Christopher Morris further told Investigator Gallegos that Eric Harris goes by the name of "Reb."
Morris told Investigator Gallegos that two weeks prior to April 20, 1999 Eric Harris had been picked on by "jocks" at Columbine High School. Shortly after this incident, Christopher Morris was at Dylan Klebold's house with Eric Harris and Harris said, "Wouldn't it be nice to kill jocks?"

On April 22, 1999, Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agents Jack McGrath and Paulette Brundage interviewed Christopher Morris, who again admitted to being an associate of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Special Agents McGrath and Brundage asked Morris where he was at the time of the shootings on April 20, 1999, and he advised that he was at Cory Friesen's house playing a video game. Morris said that he and Friesen had gone to a Video City store on the evening of April 19, 1999 and had talked to Charles Phillips, an employee of the store, who both he and Friesen knew. Morris said that Friesen had rented a computer game and that it was this game which he and Friesen were playing at Friesen's house during the time of the shootings at Columbine High School. Morris has denied any involvement or knowledge in the Columbine Shooting and has denied being at Columbine High School during the time of the shootings. Morris asserts that he was at Friesen's home playing a computer game.

On April 27, 1999, Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agent Matthew Harris interviewed Columbine High School student Christopher Wisher, dob 03/19/83. Wisher told Special Agent Matthew Harris that he was in the parking lot of Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, at about 11:15 a.m., and heard a sound like fireworks going off. Wisher told Special Agent Harris that he saw a white male dressed in black, wearing a trench coat, outside of the cafeteria, who shot at three students with a shotgun.

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Wisher told Special Agent Harris that he thought the male might be Chris Morris.

On May 6, 1999, West Metro Fire Department Investigator Dan Pfannenstiel interviewed Ashley Egeland, dob 11/20/83 who is a student at Columbine. Egeland said that on April 20, 1999, at about 11:10 a.m., she was in the gym class when she heard an unknown student yell that "someone was coming with a gun." Ashley told Investigator Pfannenstiel that she ran to the main hall that runs east/west in Columbine and saw "two gunmen." Ashley Egeland further told Investigator Pfannenstiel that the first male was carrying a long gun and was shooting at doors and lockers. Egeland recognized this gunmen as Eric Harris. Ashley told Investigator Pfannenstiel that she saw the second gunmen who had a black gun in his left hand and was also shooting his gun. Ashley Egeland said that she recognized this person as XXXXXXX. Investigator Pfannenstiel further questioned Ashley Egeland about the identification of the second gunmen and she indicated that she was 99.9% sure it was XXXXXX and that it was "definitely not Dylan Klebold."

On May 10, 1999, Denver Police Department Detective Jeffrey Ruetz and Denver Police Department Sergeant Ernie Martinez responded to the Video City store and contacted John Heim owner and president of the store. Detective Ruetz was attempting to confirm Christopher Morris' alibi and obtain information and records regarding the alleged video game which was rented on April 19, 1999 by Cory Freisen and Christopher Morris. Heim confirmed that Cory Friesen had an account established at the store, but refused to disclose any details concerning the account or any transactions posted against it. Heim also refused to confirm or deny whether or not Charles Phillips was working at the store on the evening of April 19, 1999. Heim would not provide any informaton which would confirm or deny Morris' alibi.

Based upon the aforementioned information, your affiant respectfully requests that the court issue a search warrant for the rental records of Cory Friesen's and employment and attendance records for the employees of Video City.

For the purpose of searching for the following:

All account information and activity on any account belonging to Cory Friesen.
All account information and activity on any account belonging to Christopher Morris.
Any accounts which Cory Friesen or Christopher Morris are authorized to rent on.
A list of current employees and schedule of employees working April 19, 1999.
Time cards and any other records verifying which employees were working on April 19, 1999.

Signed by Judge Nieto May 11, 1999.

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I investigator John Healy, received the within Search Warrant on this 11 day of May, 1999, and executed it as follows:

On May 11, 1999, at 4:00 o'clock p.m., I searched the premises described in the Search Warrant and left a copy of the Search Warrant with:

Heim, John Video City

The following is an inventory of property taken prusuant to the Search Warrant:

Copy of the Weekly Employee Work Schedule
Copy of the Rental History Invoice
(7) Video City employee timecards
Copy of the current Video City employees.

 

 

 

Columbine High school students and former students as being associates of Harris and Klebold:

Eric Ault, Josh Barnes, John Beachem, Thaddeus Boles, David Caravan, Eric Dutro, Nate Dykeman, Cory Friesen, Michael Hardesty, Zach Heckler, Jeremiah (Hiss) Hess, Eric Jackson, Patrick McDuffee, Chris Morris, Robert Perry, Charles "Chuck" Phillips, Horst Rossmueller, Brian Sargent, John Savage, Joe Stair, Andy Thomas, Eric Veik, Robyn Anderson, Chantel Beery, Brooks Brown, Pauline Colby, Kristi Epling, Brian Ford, Dustin Gorton, Kirsta Hanley, Nicole Markham, Alejandre "Alex" Marsh, Alyssa Sechler, Kirsten Theibault, Chris Tibaldo.
 

At 11:34 AM the shooters moved to the center of the library where they reloaded their weapons at a table midway across the room. Eric noticed a nearby student whom he recognized and told him to identify himself. With Dylan aiming a weapon at his head, Tim Cassell identified himself. He was an acquaintance of Dylan's - Nate Dykeman's best friend. He asked Dylan what he was doing, to which Klebold replied: "Oh, just killing people." Tim asked if they were going to kill him too and Dylan told him to get out of the library. He fled immediately, making a safe escape through the library's main entrance.

 

In just over 7 minutes, 10 people were killed and 12 more wounded. There were a total of 56 people in the library; 34 escaped injury. The shooters had more than enough ammo to kill everyone but for whatever reason... they didn't.
 

Nicole Markam

 


 
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Patrick Mcduffee

Nate helped Eric de-powder fireworks into a can. The same can he showed his audience in one of his home videos. But Nate wasn't their only friend who was interested in explosives. Chris Morris helped them make and detonate quite a few pipe bombs. Chris made pipe bombs even when Dylan and Eric were not around. In one instance, Chris Morris and Charles Philips (Chuck) went with Patrick Mcduffee and detonated three pipe bombs under tree stumps. Fifteen students were there. Most of them were from Chatfield High School. 
 

 

 

 

 

     
   

  
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 


 

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Police step up search for others involved

'Very good chance' more than two teens involved in pulling off Columbine massacre, police say

By Kevin Vaughan
and Lynn Bartels Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investigators intensified their search Thursday for possible accomplices in America's deadliest school shooting.

One Columbine High School student and the parent of another said they had been questioned by police about a teen-ager 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.

A law enforcement source confirmed that police are seeking a third suspect.

The discovery Thursday of another powerful bomb inside the school strengthened authorities' suspicion that the assault was the work of more than the two student gunmen who apparently killed themselves as SWAT teams closed in.

"We certainly think that there is a very good chance now that we have more than two people involved," Jefferson County sheriff's deputy Steve Davis said. "How many people, I don't know."

The bomb, found tucked away in the school kitchen late Thursday morning, was fashioned from two 20-gallon propane tanks. It would have been difficult for one or two people to move it into the school without help.

Davis said no arrests were imminent.

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.

Harris and Klebold both died in the school library, apparently after each shot himself in the head.

Another 21 students and two teachers were injured. Fourteen remained hospitalized Thursday -- three in critical condition.

In other developments Thursday:

 

  • Police continued to defend themselves against criticism that they didn't move quickly enough to enter the school after the shooting began.

     

  • The first funeral for the slain victims -- services for student Rachel Scott -- was set for 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

     

  • Attorney General Janet Reno met with Columbine students and staff members and law enforcement officers.

     

  • President Clinton prepared to release $1.5 million to compensate victims of the shooting.

     

  • Vice President Al Gore made plans to attend a memorial service Sunday at Clement Park next to the school.

    Colorado Gov. Bill Owens will lead the 1 p.m. service.

    "The killers planned to destroy this entire school, and they failed," Owens said Thursday.

    District Attorney Dave Thomas said he has reviewed notes apparently written by Harris. They were confiscated along with other evidence by sheriff's deputies at Harris' home.

    Thomas would not characterize the writings as a suicide note or whether they described the planning of Tuesday's bloodbath. Thomas said he believed it was written in the last few months.

    Thursday's discovery of the large propane bomb in the kitchen brought to 30 or 31 the number of explosives discovered at the school, in cars in the nearby parking lot, and at the homes of Harris and Klebold.

    "If the tank's full, 20 pounds of propane can create quite an extensive amount of damage," Davis said.

    The number of bombs found -- and the size of the latest discovery -- strengthened authorities' suspicion that more than two were involved in the assault.

    "I think it would have been difficult, maybe not impossible, for two people to have gotten all that into the school," Thomas said.

    Investigators were considering two scenarios: Either Harris and Klebold had help, or they planted some of the explosives long before their assault began Tuesday.

    Some witnesses suggested that more people were involved.

    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.

    The next day, as he watched television footage of the tragedy, he saw the BMW. He said the car belonged to Klebold.

    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.

    But Davis said evidence gathered so far does not point to a third gunman.

    Police officials continued to endure criticism that they were slow to storm the school.

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    Nick Foss, an 18-year-old senior who at one point fell through a ceiling as he tried to flee, said he told officers to move faster.

    "They're dying left and right in there," he said he told one officer. "Every time you wait another five minutes, another kid is dead. Go in there, man."

    Davis said the criticism wasn't fair.

    		 
         

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    "There were at least seven or eight officers in that school within just a very few minutes, trying to find out where victims were, trying to find out which victims were injured and get them out of there, trying to look for someone they could identify as a suspect or suspects," he said.

    The call for help came at 11:19 a.m. A deputy stationed at the school fired on one of the gunmen, and the first patrol car arrived at 11:21 a.m.

    About 20 minutes after the first call for help, a makeshift SWAT team rushed into the school.

    "They brought out several victims," Davis said. "They had no idea in a sea of 2,000 students whom they were looking for. I think it was very heroic of those officers."

    Some students said they couldn't figure out why SWAT officers weren't able to get a teacher, Dave Sanders, to safety. He'd survived gunshot wounds to the chest for several hours and was still alive when officers got to him, some students said, but apparently died moments later.

    "They were trying to do the best they could as quickly as they could under the circumstances," sheriff's Sgt. Jim Parr said. "Do we wish we could have got him out of there sooner? Of course we do."

    Investigators have talked to the parents of Harris and Klebold. Both families have refused numerous requests for interviews.

    "The family is trying to come to grips with the enormity of this," said Gary Lozow, an attorney for the Klebolds.

    Dylan Klebold's parents offered help in the first hours of the ordeal. But they were told it was too late -- a SWAT team was already in the school.

    "The family wanted to see what it could do to help in any way, shape or form," Lozow said. "I think the district attorney listened to that and decided the circumstances didn't allow for it."

    As investigators worked, U.S. and Colorado flags flopped at half-staff under gray, drizzly skies outside the main entrance on Columbine's northeast entrance. Plywood covered three windows shattered by gunfire.

    In Clement Park on the school's north side, a somber procession continued.

    Scores of students -- some from other high schools -- brought flowers, teddy bears and candles as memorials to the victims grew. Some parents came with young children.

    The procession reduced the soaked ground to mud.

    A huge circle of teens formed in the midst of the commotion.

    As they sang and prayed, a voice rang out:

    "God, Heal these people.

    "Heal the people of Oregon, of Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky ... and Colorado, anywhere that's had a shooting."

    News staff writers Karen Abbott, Charley Able, Carla Crowder, Hector Gutierrez, and Katie Kerwin McCrimmon contributed to this report.