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propped the easternmost door to the cafeteria open so that the
head cook, whom he identified as could enter He recalls that| ige glg a cursory examination of the cafeteria and at that time saw nobags or backpacks on the floor of the cafeteria.
r |walk throu hthe cafeteria atthe commencementof eachclass period$:;;;f;;;: | !He does notrecall seeinan e
g e una en e on 0 r of the cafeteria on any of his walk throughs thatday. d that if he did see anobject
it was his habit to put t e item on the table so that the person
who lost or left it could return and easily find it. He is quite
certain that he would have noticed an odd shaped duffel bag or
larger container during one of his walk throughs.
d note however, thaton April20, l9g9, a
student w o a een assigned community service was in the
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cafeteria helping to swee the floor and wipe down tables and may
have seensomething. [::fi::::::Poesnot knowthe students name.
ait at the northwest corner of the kitchen until approximately 10:30 am when he would go into the kitchen and get his lunch. On April 20, 1999, he said he was waiting at the northwest corner until approximately 10:50 am, when he went into the kitchen to re are
his lunch; d 11:15 am
w en a young gir came running in o e ca e eria a s to the effect of, "Someones been shot." [:::;::::;:]1ooked outthe windowand sawa studentlaying inthe par ing ot close to the soccer field.
At around that time a window on the south side of the
cafeteria with a Columbine symbo ' t was blown out by
either an explosionor a bullet.t:fifEff:iE:Iscreamed Get down
to students around him and at that time reca ls hearing sporadic
gunfire.E:::::::;:::ldirected studentsto getunder tablesas the
gunfire increase. e noticed some students were running toward
the stairs and the double doors leading to the south parking lot.
eca11s hearing gunfire upstairsabove the cafeteria an e wen to the stairs that led to that area. He is not sure but thinks he went all the way to the music room located on the northeast side of the building where he saw students
fleeing in all directions. He then retraced his steps back
t owar d th e ca f t e eria 'an d l'b i rary area. A h s e approac h e d th e top
of the steps in front of the library l ' cafeteria, he
encountered a teacherhe identifiedasTi:iEj;ff:fij whosaid words to the effect Dav ers as een s ot. Call an
ambulance." t inksE:fiEjalso mayhave said that two
students ha een s ot, but he is not sure.
[;;:::::;::lreached forhis walkie-talkieand ashe turned bac towar t e library he saw a student in a black trench coat holding a pistoland what thought was a long
barreled grenade launcher. He sai t e s oulder weapon was!
strapped across the individuars chest with the butt of the §
weapon on the ri ht side of the individuafs body. For a brief moment and the subject wereface-to-face andhe
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be1ieves that the movementout of the
auditorium drew the attention of the individual in the trench
coat and as he stood at the base of the stairs he looked upand
saw at least one of the individuals who w s doin the shooting,
coming aroundthe corner of thestairs. b ' '
was the same manhe had seen in front of t e 1 rary.
ran back through the cafeteria and as he ran through e.
cafeteria, he noticed a student 1 in on the floor. When hegot
to the end of the cafeteria did not see the subject,
so he went backupstairs an saw near the landing of the stairs.
___ again saw theshooter standing infront of the library an 1 19 his recollection that as he and: began running down the stairs together, the shooter be an firing rounds atthem. d that as_ he and entered
the kitchen an exp osion occurred behind them an e could hear
objects hitting the metal door on the serving line.
Once heand were on the ground inthe kitchen,
they crawled undernea a arge industrial oven, but realized
that hidingplace wasnot secure.Around thist
heard what he described as a whoosh" and saw fire in e
vicinity of the cafeteria andthe kitchen.etermined
that he was in a "bad place" and moved into t e itchen.
He then entered the walk-in cooler and w t into the
freezer. After approxim n minute, who was
carrying a radio,called and toldhim toopen thedoor and that he wascoming in t e wa -in cooler. The door opened and:entered the walkin cooler.
They propped a food cart against the door and prepared several lar e ob'ectsto use as weapons in case the gunman opened
the door. kept trying to make contact with two
individua1 dentified as n his radio. d that? answered an told him they
were in t e cooler an to tell him when it was safe to come out.
recalled hearing gunshots fora longperiod of time
w J. e e was in the cooler, but could not tell where they were
coming from. He believes he saw shadows movingaround the 1
kitchen but did not see anyone.
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believes he heard shootingfor upto anhour to an hour an t irty minutes after the initial incident. He said at one point there was approximately a 20 minute interval of silence and then the shooting began again. He recalled looking at his watch at 1:50 pm, and around that time recalls hearing shooting and then he glanced at his watch at 2:25 pm, but heard nothing.
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SUBJECT: ERIC HARRIS; DYLAN KLEBOLD; UNSUBS; OOLUMBINE HIGH
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COOPERATION; ACTUAL AND ATTEMPTED BONDING.
FOR INFORMATION O1? FBIHQ, THE FOLLOWING I8 AN UPDATE ON
CAPTIONED MATTER:
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CAPTIONED SUBJECTS IRON THREE AS*YET°UNIDENTIEIED INDIVIDUALS
AT A GUN SHOW IN DENVER IN NOVEMBER ORDECEMBER, 1998. THE
TEC9 APPEARSTO HAVEBEEN PURCHASEDBY KLEBOLDFROM AN
INDIVIDUAL IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY,1999.
- THE UNITED STATESATTORNEY'S OFFICEUSAO!, ALONG WITH
THE JEEFERSONCOUNTY DISTRICTATTORNEY'S OFFICEARE AWARE OF
ALL ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND ARE MAKING THE NECESSARY
PROSECUTIVE DECISIONS.
' PREVIOUS STATEMENTS MADEBY SUBJECTS, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS
INTERNET POSTINGS,MOSTLY BYHARRIS, SEEN TO INDICATE THAT
THEY PLANNEDAND CARRIEDOUT THIS ACT ALONE. HOWEVER,
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTSSTILL TO BE CORROBORATEDINDICATE THE
POSSIBILITY OP ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUALS SEEN WITH CAPTIONED
SUBJECTS IMMEDIATELYBEFORE THEINCIDENT BEGAN.INTERVIEWS IN
EXCESS OF 200 STUDENTS AND FACULTY WHO HAY HAVE SEEN CAPTIONED
SUBJECTS BEFORE AND DURING THE INCIDENT ARE UNDERWAY.
AT THIS TIRE, RAPID START CONTAINS 528 ENTRIES WITH 443
LEADS PREPARED AND 315 LEADS ASSIGNED.
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DYLAN KLEBOLD; UNSUBS; conumsms arc:-x scnoor... LITTLETON, COLORADO; 04/20/1999; FIREARMS ACT/HOMICIDE
Synopsis: Internet communication between Columbia, SC, resident teenager! and an individual claiming to be in the Trenchcoat b7¢ Mafia and a student at Columbine High School.
Enclosures: FD-340 containing computer printout of internet conversation.
Details: On 04/20/1999,
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a ter seeing the news concerning t e s ootings at the high school in Colorado, went on the internet to ' could make contact with someone in theTrenchcoat Mafia.I:::::;i[look at the members profile in America On-Line A nyone who was on- ' the time that had Trenchcoat Mafia in their rofile. nd one erson wit name sed t e screenname egan is conv around 11:30 p.m. He 1 not inis the conversation until after
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conversation is dated Wednesda A ril 21, 1999. claimed to be a femalestudent named fromthe o u ine High School.
Columbia is aware of the copy cat people on AOL who are pretending to be members of the Trenchcoat Mafia. The main reason Columbiaplaces any credence in this conversation is hues to the relative short time between the news releases concerning the shootings and when the conversation took place. Also, when
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Synopsis: Lead set for St Louis to interview ments received from aColumbine
Details: For the information of Denver, on O4/28/1999, St. Louis
received a call from a St Louis,
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local high school in St. L ,. provided the
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stated that she received an e-mail from a a student from Columbine High School, who stated was mailing her some documents regarding Eric Harris. urth ' ed that the next day 4/27/99! she received f (^) w hic h ' containe d f (^) a page rom t h e yearbookof in whic ric Harris wrote s m mments on and drew pi u esofindividualswithgun urtheradvisedthat some notes that were past betwee an Harris were contained in the package.
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Synopsis: Set lead for Cart examiner to process image of hard
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Enclosures: Enclosed for Laboratory, CART section, is one CDRom
containing a Safeback image of a drive that was using Linux OS,
and one chain of custody sheet.
Reference telcallon 4 28 99 betweenS
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executed search warrants which allowed them to seize computers
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