The Truth Behind Death at Columbine is the true story of Columbine. The story is told by Brooks Brown. The two shooters at Columbine were Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris and Brooks Brown was their best friend. So this story is told by the shooters’ best friend and how he had no idea what was going on and all the signs that were completely missed. Columbine was the worst murder that occurred at a school in U.S. history. Dylan and Eric shot to death 12 students, 1 teacher, and wounded many others. The day of the shooting Brooks noticed that Dylan and Eric were not in school. It was pretty common for Eric to miss school but if Dylan was gone, Brooks was normally with him. But that day, he wasn’t. After school Brooks saw Eric drive up and park his car in the parking lot. He went over and asked him where he was all day and if he knew where Dylan was. Eric got out of the car with a big duffle bag said to Brooks, “Get out of here. Go home”. Brooks was confused but did what he said. As he was walking home he heard loud noises coming from school. He soon figured out it was gun shots.
Dylan and Brooks had been friends since first grade. They grew up together and when they got to middle school Eric moved to town and the 3 of them became inseparable. Brooks and Dylan were made fun of a lot growing up in school. People called them nerds, they were very into video games and computers. They a lot of times played very violent video games and many people think that was a significant factor in this. Eric was just like them. He was into video games and computers as well. The 3 of them were made fun of consistently and even when they tried to tell administration about it, nothing stopped it.
This obviously affected Dylan and Eric a lot more than it did Brooks. Brooks never suspected them to do this. After the shooting occurred Brooks was questioned and thought to be part of the shooting because he was such good friends with them. They soon found out Brooks had nothing to do with it and no idea it was coming. Brooks said that there were some signs but he didn’t notice them till he thought about it after the shooting occurred.
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Do your research. They were enemies by the end and you make it sound like the day was over. The Browns filed several police reports about threats to Brooks by the killers. Read "Columbine" by Dave Cullen. There are things in it that make you think it could have been prevented. Take his article with a grain of salt.
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