"It's basically a shooting game," he said.There were a lot of things Melissa Sowder didn't like about Columbine High School. They shoved her friends in the halls and threw snowballs or bottles at them on the way home.
"Teachers would see them push someone into a locker, and they'd just ignore it," she says. "I think they were afraid of the students. They didn't stop half the fights in that school."īut Columbine wasn't all bad, Sowder insists. And there were nice students, too-guys she met in the commons area, drinking coffee or hot chocolate and talking about what was wrong with Columbine. "I used to talk to Eric once in a while," Sowder says. "He was like the sweetest guy I ever knew. He'd do pretty much anything for people he liked. We'd talk mostly about how we got picked on, how the school was not caring what the students did. And how some people could get away with anything." Sowder was near the bottom of the intricate social hierarchy at Columbine last fall. She was a freshman and a special-education student, struggling to get the services and classes she needed. She liked to dress in black, and most of her friends were kids who thought of themselves as outcasts-punks and goths and skaters.Įric Harris was a senior and a very confident student. His personal Web page crackled with fantasies of murder and revenge, and he liked to show off his extensive knowledge of guns and explosives.īefore the world that was Columbine blew up last spring, guess which one of the two attracted more scrutiny from school officials? He had a juvenile conviction for theft and had been reported to the police for making death threats against another student on the Internet.
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