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Show NS & Page 5 April 28, 1999 Editor: Mike Sherwood jeromeml 2hotmail.com Killers Diary Shows Meticulous Attack Plans Tribune Media Services LITTLETON, Colo. - One of two teen-agesuspected in a gunmen were hunting for minorities and athletes. But Stone said there appeared to be little connection between deadly rampage through a Eric and Dylan's apparent suburban Denver high school hatred and whom they actualkept a yearlong diary, detailshot once the assault began. ing motives and methods for ly were targeting "They the assault, officials said Satthose people because they felt urday. "It's a timeline of planning that they were different, because they weren't respectin this thing," Jefferson Couned, because they were made P. Sheriff Stone said of John ty fun of," he said. "But from the diary. He did not identify which of the suspects, Dylan looking at their shooting patKlebold or Eric Harris, kept terns when they were in the school, yes, if they saw somethe journal. that looked like a jock, body a "They were going for big shoot at him, but would they kill," Stone said. the shooting was pretty indis"They've been planning this particular thing and criminate. "And by what showed up they've been building bombs I for this particular thing for a in this plan, can just tell you, the bottom line is, they wantconsiderable time. ... Now we want to find out where they ed to do as much damage as they could possibly do and got the stuff," the sheriff said. When the siege ended, destroy the school and destroy as many children as they Eric, 18, and Dylan, 17, both could to go out in flames." seniors at Columbine High The handwritten journal School, had killed 12 classreflected the meticulous manmates, a teacher and them- ner in which the young men selves, authorities believe. Stone said. the attack. planned Their apparent suicides were also laid out in the diary, the For example, it noted the first entry of which is dated busiest times of the day in the school cafeteria. And . an April 1998, Stone said. of the The diary, sprinkled with accompanying map school included notations rs German words, contained numerous to references Nazism. It also made it clear that they wanted to burn down the school and chose to carry out the attack Tuesday because it was Hitler's birthday, the sheriff said. A number of students who witnessed the attack said the He said the diary, the ed anyone else. Sometimes reaching you goals seems like an impossible task. In the Air Force youll get the tools you need to reach any goal you set. Well help get you there by: 1l 'H3RCEF to SWAT team of Denver and Jef- ferson County officers entered the building within 15 minutes of the first 911 calls. "A lot of the deaths, from analyzing the 911 calls, were probably committed before we were even notified," he said. "That early intervention of that first SWAT unit I think saved one heck of a lot of kids' lives by pinning these guys down, by putting them on the defensive instead of the offen- sive and subsequently proba- bly led to their suicides." questions about police response time to the school, the sheriff said many people got the impression that the police were standing around doing nothing when they tuned in to watch the siege on television. But he said, the cameras didn't reflect the fact that there were already a number of officers in the building by the time the cameras arrived. 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So, if between the ages of 7 - call AIM HIGH Responding 'V sus- pects' computers and phone records were helping investigators understand what happened, but he declined to say whether the journal implicat- to "help communities respond when tragedy strikes." Got plans for the Summer? about good places to hide things, he said. Set your goals high. A-f- "We're going to be constructing this whole scenario. If there was a third, a fourth or a fifth person involved, we're going to find him," he said. President Clinton, in his weekly radio address Saturday, said he will ask Congress for money and stricter gun laws to help prevent the kind of violence wrought on Columbine High School. He said that he wants to make it harder for juveniles to get guns and that he will seek $12 million for emergency teams Call WSU Admissions at (801) youre for an nforTnat'on packet, or visit the Air Base at www.airforce.com 626-674- 3 Weber State University REGISTER NOW Real Education. Real Value. i |