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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Wednesday, April 21, 1999 MASSACRE AT COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL from across a nearby athletic Students field, openedfireon students eating lunch outside, then moved Slaughtered in intothe cafeteria and through the school building Colorado School @ Continued from A-1 him —entered wearing trench coats First, he said, they threw pipe bombs that wounded someof his classmates. Then one attacker called out All the jocks stand up —I'mgoingtokill every single one of you,” Cohnsaid The killers began shooting When someone survived the ini tial round and cried out in pain hesaid, “they just kept shooting themuntil they were dead. They were laughing, hooting and hol lering ‘They were having the best time of their lives,” he said Most of thevictims werewhite, thoughtheassailants referred to one black student with a racist epithet, Cohn said. “Then bang bang, bang.” 's he dead?” the shooter asked his partner, accordingto the witness Yeah, he’s dead,” ¢ camethe answer. Otherstudents said the gunmen specifically targeted athletes and minorities at the school, which is mostly white. Late Tuesday, po- lice were searching for white suirieaki/The Associated Press Fran Allison, right, comforts her daughter, Brooke, after they were reunited following the shooting spree at Columbine High Schoolin Littleton, Colo. Dozensdiedin the attack. premacist literature at the suspects’ homes Theattack began without warning at about 11:30 am. Denver time. The gunmen approached Hundreds of frantic students scrambled from the high school thers barricaded themselves ‘ooms, huddled on the ome jammed their bodies against restroom doors. SWAT teams used armored cars to enterthe school, and then crept through the building, searching for the gunmenand for wounded students and leading others through windows and out doors. But the gunmen had placed Sieureed Biers pipe bombs packed with nails around the school, andpolicepro. Knight-Riddor Tribune four hours before they reached the cafeteria andlibrary, freeing the last of the students still and near the gunmen’s bodies. Tuesday night, police werestill moving methodically through the through the building before al- they might havemissed insideto begin their investigation Onlythenwill an accurate death gress was agonizingly slow. It took trappedthere school, searching for explosives And as they worked, they movedpast the dead, who would remain wheretheyfell “for a very long time,” Jefferson County DeputySteveDavis said, until po- lice weresure everything was se- cure FBI agents and bombsquadofficers were particularly concerned about the library, in the area wherethe two gunmen died DeputyDavis said, and foundseveral explosive devices near the bodies. At7:30 p.m. Denver time, bomb crews werepreparing to detonate two pipe bombsfoundinside suspects’ cars in the school parking lot and other explosives found on Sheriff's Deputy Steve Davis said. Once that was completed, po- lice planned a final sweep lowing detectives and the coroner toll be available, he said. Students said the shooters were membersofthe “Trench Coat Ma- fia,” — a group ofperhaps a dozen male students who dressed in black trench coats, shared a love of guns and occasionally wore swastikas and Nazi slogans on their dark clothing Some students said the gunmen singled out athletes, who frequentlypicked on membersofthe group. Otherssaid they firedfirst at the school’s black and Latino students. But as Sean put it, “it pretty much turned into a shooting spree with no real targets.” Shooters Are Described as Social Outcasts @ Continued from A-1 many American high schoolers, some of whom simply dress and paint their fingernails black while others immerse themselves in a pseudo medieval world of dark images. On Web sites featuring poetry called “The Written Work of The Trenchcoat” and in political tracts and other elements of the conspiratorial imagination Rhythm trenchcoats serveas a symbolfor everything from Hitler and the Nazis to mass murder andsuicidal fantasies. Tuesday was Hitler's birthday, an occasion for demon strations. mock funerals and oth er macabre commemorations among neo-Nazis and partsof the Gothic scene When the young menstarted shooting Tuesday, 10th-grader Mindy Pollock was in the school parking lot. She saw two shooters firing their guns repeatedly, she and watched as her fellow stu dents droppedto the pavement She couldn't believe it was real especially since she had oncebe fore seen this same boy pull a gun on some of her friends. The one with the handgun today pulled a A. TWO-PIECE DRESSING $ St. Trope2* sleeveless 2-piece 4 dress with long skirt and |+ border Taj Mahal print. In red. Misses. B. 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