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Rachel Scott (August 5th, 1981 - April 20th, 1999)

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Happy 38th heavenly birthday Rachel, always dreaming of what would have been. Sending all the love and good thoughts to your family and loved ones today. You are much loved and even for a second never forgotten. 💜

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911 Call Made from Student during the MSD School Shooting

Dispatcher: 911, what’s your emergency? Student: Please help, please help, someone’s at our high school. [Inaudible] Dispatcher: Alright, what’s the address ma’am? Student: 5901 Pine Island Road. Dispatcher: Pine Island Road, but what school was it? Student: A shooter… A shooter. Dispatcher: Okay, is anybody injured? Student: Yes! Yes! A lot of blood, please help, please. Dispatcher: Okay, we’re already sending the paramedics. Are you in a safe location where you can keep talking? Student: [Crying, inaudible] Dispatcher: Hello, ma’am? Student: [Crying] Dispatcher: ‘Kay, ah, hello? Alright, we already called the paramedics and the police okay? Student: Yes, right now, please. Dispatcher: Okay, do you know how many people are injured? Student: I don’t know… [Inaudible, followed by heavy breaths] Christ, it’s real. Dispatcher: Hello? Student: It’s real. [Whispering] Please help. Dispatcher: Hello ma’am? Student: [Whispering] Please help. Dispatcher: Hello? [Calls ends]  

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New photos of Steven Curnow ❤❤❤

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New photos of Lauren Townsend. 

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Cruz shooting Nixon, so fucking brutal…

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Eminem and Columbine

I am an Eminem Fan for years now and when I started to get more and more into True Crime I was surprised to find a lot of his Lyrics mentioning Columbine which I never really realised before. Of course he also mentioned other murderers or events, like Ted Bundy and the Aurora theater shooting but I wanted to start with the Columbine lyrics because there’s a lot of material. So let’s start:

The Way I Am, 2000 0:00-0:16 When a dude’s getting bullied and shoots up his school And they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin Where were the parents at? And look where it’s at! Middle America, now it’s a tragedy Now it’s so sad to see, an upper-class city Havin’ this happening Marshall states that he thinks that he thinks that not music is the reason for the shooting but bullying and the parents. But as we all know Marilyn Manson was partly blamed for Columbine by the media. Em is also making fun of the fact that Columbine was the first shooting that people cared this much about although there have been a lot of shootings but now it happened at a “nice” school. There is an alternative version of this song featuring Marilyn Manson (x) He performed it live with Manson (x and x) Manson also appeared in the official video (x)

Remember me, 2000 0:17-0:30 Came home and somebody musta broke in the back window And stole two loaded machine guns and both of my trenchcoats Sick, sick dreams of picnic scenes Two kids, sixteen, with M-16’s and ten clips each And them shits reach through six kids each

Em is making fun of the idea that musicians like him are a bad influence because he is not the one who gives these kids their weapons.

And as we all know, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold both wore a Trenchcoat when the attack started, that’s why „both of my Trenchcoats“ were stolen. And so he thinks that they were stolen to start another Columbine. And when you have these „two kids“ with guns that, when you shoot them, „reach through six kids each“ you have 12 dead kids. And as we all know, during the Columbine massacre died 12 kids (and one adult). By the way, Eminem needed two months to write his whole verse on this song while Sticky Fingaz wrote his verse in one day. 

I’m Back, 2000 0:30-0:41 I take seven [kids] from [Columbine] Stand ‘em all in line, add an AK-47, a revolver, a 9 A MAC-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine And that’s a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time

This is probably the most well known Columbine reference made by Eminem. This album came out one year after the massacre so it was still an sensitive subject. Therefore his label censored these two words (Kids and Columbine), even on the explicit version of the album. I don’t think I have to explain what exactly this lyric means, it’s pretty clear. In his book he states this:

“ I was getting shit about the Columbine reference on “I’m Back” and the label was telling me that I wasn’t gonna be able to say it. My whole thing was, what is the big fucking deal? That shit happens all the time. Why is that topic so touchy as opposed to, say a four-year-old kid drowning? Why isn’t that considered a huge tragedy? People die in the city all the time. People get shot, people get stabbed, raped, mugged, killed and all kinds of shit. What the fuck is the big deal with Columbine that makes it separate from any other tragedy in America?”

In 2015 a 15 year-old boy was arrested. He posted these lyrics on Instagram and added “Cause I’m just like shady and just as crazy as the world was over that whole Y2K thing” The origiginal lyrics are “ ‘Cause (I'mmmm) Shady, they call me as crazy As the world was over this whole Y2K thing”

When authorities searched the boy’s home they found weaponry and eventually arrested him. He denied any knowledge of the weapons and said he didn’t post this text on Instagram.

White America, 2002 0:42-0:48 White America, I could be one of your kids White America, little Eric looks just like this

In this song it’s not only about the Lyrics but also about the music video. With “little Eric” he mentioned Eric Harris but it was also meant as an example for a typical white kid. He is from middle america because his name is in the middle of amERICa. The interesting part is, as I said, the video. Where you can see news of an school shooting during “I could be one of your kids” And during “little Eric looks just like this” you can see one of those typical yearbook pictures and the house of the school shooter. The house looks a bit like the one the Harrises had.

When these lines get repeated you can see a boy full of (probably) blood stepping out of the map of america. On his shirt is written “I am Eric”.

Rap God, 2013 0:49-0:54 I’ll take seven kids from Columbine Put ‘em all in a line, add an AK-47, a revolver and a 9

This was the first time we could hear the Columbine Line uncensored. Eminem didn’t rap all of the “I’m back” lines because he just wanted to “See if I get away with it now that I ain’t as big as I was” As you can hear, he got away with it.

Eminem is one of the few people who openly give their sympathy for the two shooters. He admitted to be interested in serial killers in this statement: “I did find myself watching a lot of documentaries on serial killers, I mean, I always had a thing for them. I’ve always been intrigued by them and I found that watching movies about killers sparked something in me.The way a serial killer’s mind works, just the psychology of them is pretty fucking crazy. I was definitely inspired by that, but most of the album’s imagery came from my own mind.”

But Marshall Mathers seems to have an very personal realationship with the whole Columbine Issue. He himself was bullied on a daily basis during his childhood, often for his race and for always being the new kid. When he was nine years old he got beaten up so bad he was in an coma for several days. I think he is one of the people who is trying to understand what Harris and Klebold were going through. But I think it is important to mention, that he is the living proof that even when your life is is shitty right now because of some people who have nothing in their life but to terrorize you, that you can still have a better life. And you beat them best when you keep on living.

“That Columbine shit is so fucking touchy. As much sympathy as we give the Columbine shootings, nobody ever looked at it from the fuckin’ point of view of the kids who were bullied—I mean, they took their own fucking life! And it was because they were pushed so far to the fucking edge that they were fucking so mad. I’ve been that mad.”

-Marshall Mathers

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She was such a beauty ✨

#lauren townsend #columbine #tcc #true crime

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Some photos of Rachel💞

#rachel scott #rachel joy scott #columbine

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5/28/19: Cruz covers his ears during his court hearing as the State plays the cell phone videos he made revealing his plans to commit the shooting.

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Alternate universe Columbine...in Canada! (Part 1)

The school standing in for Columbine High School in Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High is actually John Polanyi Collegiate Institute, formerly Bathurst Heights Secondary School, in the North York section of Toronto, at 640 Lawrence Avenue West.

It’s common for American TV shows and movies to be filmed in Canada because production costs are cheaper there than in the US.  Also, the whole Zero Hour series was a British/Canadian production, so it would make sense for it to be filmed in Canada.  Still, I’ve been to Toronto and it just doesn’t look very much like Denver–it’s much more like the Northeast or Midwest of the United States.

You can see half of the “640” street number in this frame.  

Also note the Canadian flag waving proudly on the flagpole…“the True North strong and free,” as the Canadian national anthem “O Canada” proclaims.  Which makes Eric’s “Isn’t America supposed to be the ‘Land of the Free’…?” rant funnier in context, knowing he, or rather Ben Johnson as Eric, is actually in Canada…

The school’s location in relation to downtown Toronto.

The school was first opened in 1951 as Bathurst Heights Secondary School…which is why it looks so old and crummy in Zero Hour compared to the real Columbine High, first built in 1973 and renovated in 1995.  Due to dropping enrollment, the Toronto District School Board closed the school in 2001.  The building was then used for various purposes, including as a filming location, until 2011, when it became the permanent location of the John Polanyi Collegiate Institute, named after Canadian Nobel Prize winning chemist John Polanyi.

Eric (Ben Johnson) tells Brooks Brown (James Gilbert) to “go home” in the parking lot.

View of the parking lot in question.  Note the apartment blocks in the background, of which more later.

Eric shoots out the windows of the front doors, and you can momentarily see a reflection of the house across the street:

The house directly across the street from the front doors, at 615 Lawrence Avenue West (you can see the house number “615” reversed in the above picture).

The school is actually located in one of the poorest, most crime-infested neighborhoods (or “neighbourhoods,” in Canadian English) of Toronto, Lawrence Heights, which has a majority black and recent immigrant population.  This is in stark contrast to the real Columbine, located in one of the wealthiest (and whitest) areas of the Denver metropolitan area.

The apartment blocks visible are actually public housing projects.  (Scene where Officer Gardner drives up to the school.)

Apartment block at 20 Varna Drive; the school is visible in the background.

There are quite a lot of shootings in the area (unfortunately), despite Canada’s overall low levels of homicide and gun violence; if this school really did get shot up, well…it wouldn’t be that out of the ordinary.  For example:

On July 8, 2014, Abshir Hassan, a supply teacher (called a “substitute teacher” in the US), was shot and killed and two others were shot on Flemington Road, only a few hundred yards/meters from the school, in a “drive-by” shooting.  A couple years before that, a man was killed right in the schoolyard of Flemington Public School, also only a few hundred yards/meters away from the high school.

To be continued in Part 2…

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Kip Kinkel rare video from his 1999 sentencing hearing

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Tj waving at his family as they testifie

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Rest in Peace Austin Eubanks 🖤

I am so sorry for all the trauma and heartbreak you’ve had to deal with in your short life. What happened on that April day in 1999 ripped your innocence and future away from you. You’re one of the bravest and strongest people I’ve ever known. I hope you are finally at peace. You will be dearly missed.

1982-2019 🌹

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austin eubanks, a survivor from the library crying as he says “they killed my best friend.” he’s referring to corey depooter, who unfortunately lost his life that day, as he was comforting both austin and the girl who was underneath the table with them. hearing austin crying for corey is heartbreaking. he had to see his best friend be killed right in front of him. this is something nobody should ever have to experience. 💔

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Austin Eubanks and Corey DePooter💙👼

It saddens me to announce that Columbine survivor and best friend of victim Corey DePooter, Austin Eubanks, has passed away. He was found dead this morning in his home in Steamboat Springs. He was with Corey under a table in the library during the 1999 shooting. His cause of death is unknown at this time. Rest In Peace, Austin.