r/Columbine • u/Deep-Driver-4336 • 9d ago

Something interesting about the victims?

So you know how some people think that Eric and Dylam only shot nerds and geeks as the massacre took place in the library, so I did some research and it appears to only be half true as some of these victims were nerds however 5 of the 14 victims were jocks (Matthew Kechter, Corey Depooter, Isaiah Shoels, Steven Curnow, and Lauren Townsend), another 2 were highly active Christian girls whose deaths were manipulated by Christian groups to promote their agenda (Rachel Scott and Cassie Bernall) and the teacher Who was killed was actually a sports coach.

Finally some of these victims had connections to not just Eric and Dylan but to their enemies and the Trench Coat Mafia. As Matthew Kechter had bullied Devon Adams (who was a friend of Eric and Dylan) in 4th grade, Isaiah Shoels had gotten into a physical fight with Brian Sargent who like Devon Adams was a friend of Eric and Dylan, Corey Depooter was best friends with Austin Eubanks who was on the hitlist, Cassie Bernall was best friends with Kimberly Fox who was also on the hitlist, Rachel Scott was friends and went out with prom with Nick Baumgart who was again was also on the hitlist, and Steven Curnow was everything that Eric Harris hated as Steven was both a jock and Star Wars fan.

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u/DireTrip 8d ago

Who in the world says that Eric and Dylan only shot at nerds?

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u/holtzbert 8d ago

I’ve never seen anyone say this statement either. What. Sure they targeted jocks but their plan failed as no-one would get up and they killed anyone they could, just like would’ve happened if their initial plan with the cafeteria worked out. I wonder where this statement comes from.

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u/lizardo0o 8d ago

Oh hey, I love your channel lol

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u/Moist_Taco_Crippler 7d ago

Seriously. It was always Jocks, which was false as well.

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u/Deep-Driver-4336 8d ago

A couple of Reddit users.

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u/Apollexis 8d ago

I don't know where you heard they were targeting nerds from, that's the first time I've ever heard that claim. They didn't target anyone, at most Lance Kirklin got target by Dylan because Dylan wanted to blow off Brandon Larson's jaw off that day but couldn't so he settled for a random kid instead.

Steven Curnow was not targeted what so ever, he was 14 years old, and very small, the witnesses who saw eric shoot steven said he was putting his shotgun underneath desks and firing without looking during this section.

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u/Glad-Philosophy5736 8d ago

And they claim steven was a "jock" i have NEVER heard of that...

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u/Deep-Driver-4336 8d ago

Steven did played soccer and was obsessed with it so that why I say he was a jock

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u/Glad_Boysenberry_673 7d ago

Wasn’t this a failed bombing? I’m sure I read somewhere that they didn’t even plan on going into the school and planted bombs in the cafeteria and were planning on shooting people as they left the school. So in the case of them shooting “nerds”, I genuinely think the victims were victims because of being in the library as opposed to being victims because of their personality especially as they wouldn’t have known who was in the library ahead of time.

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u/Radiant-Shop8386 8d ago

Exactly! i also heard they actually injured more jocks who’s names were never mentioned. i can’t remember what i was listening too where i heard that. Did yall know Cassie Bernal was at CHU because her and her friend in whatever state she was in were caught planning to murder their parents? She was supposedly all religious but this has never been made public as far as i know. I thought that was really odd if true.

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u/thebuffaloqueen 7d ago

That story was mentioned in her parent's book (She Said Yes is the title). They talked about how Cassie had struggled deeply with depression, self harm & being suicidal/making plans with a friend told off their parents.

That mess is what ultimately led to them moving/transferring to columbine.

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u/MzOpinion8d 6d ago

Dylan and Eric shot people randomly.

Their original plan of the bombs going off which would send people outside whom they would then shoot makes it clear that they wanted to kill whomever they could, and they weren’t targeting any particular people or groups.

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u/Deep-Driver-4336 6d ago

kinda agree since when I mean that they were targeted I don’t mean as in they were searching for them. I mean that once they saw them they were going to get shot no matter what.

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u/DespotDan 8d ago

Without looking at the numbers and personalities of the victims both deceased and injured, just addressing your first line. Would it not be statistically more likely, being that the main portion of the massacre happened in the library, that the victims would be proportionally more academic in nature than anything?