RING AROUND COLUMBINE

RING AROUND COLUMBINE






4-16-99
Shawn Cooper, 16, Notus, Idaho,
He rode the bus to school with a shotgun wrapped in a blanket. He pointed the gun at a secretary and students, then shot twice into a door and at the floor.

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4-17-99
"West Metro Fire Investigator Dave Green advised Pomona High School(same school district as Columbine) students (Redacted) and (Redacted) arrested on April 17, 1999 with explosives. Also within past month (Redacted) contacted in early AM hours at Pomona High School in fatigues. Claimed to be on maneuvers..... There is no connection with this investigation."

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4-19-99
There was a probable planned attack with many similarities to Columbine in far-off Evans High School in Georgia. The Columbia County Seriff's Department in Appling, Georgia questioned two students on April 19, 1999(the day before Columbine) regarding death threats they reportedly had made at Evans High. Police seized guns at both boys homes. They wore trench coats over their all-black outfits with combat boots.
The Georgia authorities said there was no connection to the events in Colorado, which was "contrary to many news reports... that are currently circulating throughout the region." Early local media reports, however, said the two groups were in internet contact or were visiting the same web site.


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4-19-99
Employee at Stein Elementary School(near Columbine) got voice mail message on 4-19 that she saved for the cops:
"Yes, I'm one of the trench coat robbers, so you idiots and(sic) if you don't give up $10million we're going to kill everybody in the school. You have my warning."
The Stein Elementary Security Office says "It is believed to be young children."


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7:30am on 4-20-99
Bomb found at Highlands Ranch High School(neighboring Douglas County)

"The sheriff's office also made two arrests in connection with a bomb hoax April 20 at Highlands Park Ranch School.
"One teen is a student at the high school and the other is a former classmate....
"The bomb was not real" Deputy Kim Stuckenschneider of the sheriff's office said. "It just happened at the wrong time. That had absolutely no connection whatsoever with Columbine. It's just a rumor."

Cops said it was a "hoax".

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11:10am on 4-20
An unnamed youth asked two fellow students at lunch at a Burger King if they would "be up to going into Lincoln(HS-Denver) and shooting people you hate?" He acted as if he knew what was going on before it happened, according to witnesses. He is likely a friend or acquaintance of the Columbine shooters.


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11:15am on 4-20
Columbine Massacre Begins

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At 1:30pm on 4-20
A gun with ammo is found in the trunk of a student's car at Kiowa High School(Denver metro area). The owner, 17, tried to run away. Cops also said he may have threatened others, and that he vowed revenge.

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8:50pm on 4-20
A theft of four handguns occurs from the Jumbo Sports Store in the town of Lone Tree in Douglas County using smash-and-grab techniques. Arrested later was an 18yr old ex-Columbine student and another 17 year old. Four handguns were recovered.
"...the suspects do live in the area and have ties to Columbine High School" according to the Douglas County Sheriff's spokesperson.

Cops implied it was a "hoax".

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4-21-99
In Colorado Springs(70 miles south of Denver), four teenagers dressed "as gothics in black trench coats and masks were charged with trespassing after a disturbance wedesday afternoon at Coronado High School." Another report had them armed with 'firecrackers.'

Cops said it was a "hoax".

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4-21-99
Shutdown of Kennedy High
Students said there will be an incident at Kennedy High on 4-21-99.
"A 'potential link' to students responsible for the massacre at Columbine High School triggered the shutdown Wedesday(4-21) of Denver's Kennedy High School .... the boundaries of the two schools are adjacent.... "

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4-22-99
Manchester High School , Chesterfield, VA
Two students, ages 14 and 15, were charged with conspiracy offenses in an alleged scheme to manufacture explosive devices and detonate them inside the 2,400-student school with the intent "to kill more than one person."
The two teens charged were making plans to manufacture bombs [b]long before[/b] the Littleton massacre.

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4-22-99
R.E. Lee High School, Staunton, Virginia
Police arrested a 14-year-old high school student Thursday on a bomb-making charge after a tipster alerted them to an apparent parallel with the deadly Colorado school shooting. He was arrested after a home search turned up a pipe bomb and a floor plan for the school.

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4-23-99
Bellaire High School, Bellaire, Michigan
Police are investigating threats against students at Bellaire High School by students referred to as the Trench Coat Mafia made [b]prior to[/b] last week's massacre in Littleton, Colo..
Police hope to determine if the alleged group in Bellaire had contact via computers with the Littleton group.

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4-23-99
Danforth Junior High School, Wimberly, TX
Five 14-year-old boys were arrested on charges of planning an attack on Danforth Junior High School in Wimberley. [b]They had planned the assault well before the massacre at Columbine[/b]. "Based on the statements given, it is clear that these young men were serious about targeting fellow students and teachers.''


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4-22-99
"Two 16-year old males were arrested for making bomb threats to Douglas County High School in Castle Rock(Colorado), according to county officials. They claimed to be members of the Trench Coat Mafia, officials said.""They were charged with making false reports of explosives and conspiracy, which are both felonies...."

The police said it was a hoax.

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4-27-99(or before)
"Student found with pipe bomb at Dakota Ridge High School(same school district as Columbine)."

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4-27-99
Todd Cameron Smith, 14, W.R. Myers HS, Taber, Alberta, Shoots and kills one boy and wounds two more.

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4-29-99
Sierra Middle School, Bakersfield California
A 13-year-old boy with a loaded handgun and a hit list of 30 names was arrested at school. Authorities pulled the boy out of class at after classmates said they saw a gun under his shirt and saw him loading it outside. A .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and 13 rounds of ammunition were found on the boy.


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4-30-99
Faye Holt, 34, of Westminster(Colorado), the mother of a former Pomona High School student, was arrested for a bomb scare that forced the evacuation of the school. The task force investigating the Columbine shootings was called in to determine if the threat was connected to the events at Columbine.


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5-3-99
Everett High School, Lansing, Michigan
A student hurled homemade chemical bombs on the campus. "It's a kind of hysteria. It has a mind of its own, a face of its own. It has taken on its own personality. I've never experienced it as a professional" for 40 years, said Dale Glynn, principal

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5-3-99
Steven Allen Abrams, 39, Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center, Costa Mesa, California

He intentionally plowed his Cadillac into a crowd of children outside a day care center, killing two toddlers and injuring five other people.

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5-8-99
Four former or current Adams High School(less than 30 miles northeast of Columbine) students were charged with attempted first-degree murder, for allegedly plotting an attack on the school.

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5-16-99
A "real nasty" bomb was discovered Saturday at the entrance to a ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel in West Palm Beach, where hundreds of students were arriving for their high school prom. The pipe bomb was filled with nails and other debris that could have inflicted serious injury had it gone off.

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5-19-99
South Junior High, Anaheim, Calif.
When police searched the homes of two eighth-graders at, they found two bombs, a rifle, a handgun, 1,500 rounds of ammunition and Nazi paraphernalia. They were tipped off by a student who heard that the boys were threatening to blow up the school.

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5-20-99
T.J. Solomon, 15, Heritage High, Conyers, GA 6 wounded by gunfire.




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From the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Final Report-"Findings of the Threats Team"-we read

"IMMEDIATELY after the shooting on April 20, the command post received NUMEROUS reports of additional attacks that were to occur at other schools in the metro area as well as schools outside the state."(emphasis mine)

Based upon the sheer number of these incidents happening on or very near to 4-20, I'd have to say there is a probable connection--and that what was being planned was far more horrific than what actually happened.