dara🎹

06/08/1995 - 12/02/2015

[shallow-existences]

Wassup h8ters?

[ztudiomilitary]

I should be lobotomized

[cargo1995]

My favorite photos of Timothy

[narkotiks]

Elliots’ entire facebook page

Preserved and archived.

Today I locked in and did an internet deep dive, I was able to uncover quite a bit of lost media regarding Elliot. Here’s an archive of his entire facebook page that I recorded, I believe only fragmented pictures of the account are currently in circulation. I’m excited to finally make a post regarding the case that is actually my special interest, he also got me into the community.

He’s not too popular on here, but for the 3 other elliot researchers I may post some hidden gems I found.

Disclaimer: This post is for research, educational and awareness purposes only. I do not condone or encourage violence or harmful rhetoric of any kind.

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Signs supporting the families of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold after the Columbine massacre.

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“I wonder if I’ll ever have a love.” — Dylan Klebold

[cargo1995]

Pictures taken by Timothy

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[the-psychedelic-witch]

Dylan Klebold/Kip Kinkel

[racheljoyscotts]

“He was one of those rare teenagers who obviously enjoyed spending time with his parents. “Work was fun for him,” says best friend and fellow freshman Matt Houck, 14, of Rohrbough’s job at the electronics store owned by his father, Brian, “because he really enjoyed being around his dad.” Says Dan’s mother, real estate agent Sue Petrone, now divorced from his father: “If you were upset about something, he would sit down and put his arm around you and rub your back.” During the shootings, Dan held open a door so that others could escape. “I don’t know how I’m going to live without him,” says Andrew, a surviving sibling along with Matt, and Nichole.”

[racheljoyscotts]

“At the moment when he could have run for his life, Dave Sanders ran instead toward the gunfire. Hearing the sound of shooting, the popular business teacher, who also coached girls’ basketball and softball, raced from the faculty lounge to the cafeteria, where he jumped onto a chair and shouted to the more than 300 students to get down and take cover. “I truly believe he saved my life and the lives of many other people,” freshman Lindsey Dowling, 15, said at his April 26 memorial service. A native of Newtown, Ind., Sanders started at Columbine in 1975. It was the only teaching job he ever held—or wanted. Over the years, the twice-married father of four daughters and grandfather of five children became a fixture at the school. On his last day, after clearing out the cafeteria, he ran toward the library but was gunned down on the way and died three hours later as students struggled to Save him. “As soon as I heard one of the teachers went to protect the kids, I knew it was Dave,” says friend Greg Lighty. “He always did the right thing.”

[racheljoyscotts]

“Kyle was the perfect baby! He ate, he slept, and he hardly ever cried. I can remember, early on, that I knew he was different. There was something different about this child. We found out that he had a stroke at birth. So, years of speech therapy, years of working on his fine motor skills, and getting him in to classes that were appropriate for him was always a struggle. Because he appeared very normal, and he was very normal, and he wanted to be normal. Going to Columbine, even for the short time that he was there, was probably the best placement that we had ever gotten.” - Phyllis Velasquez 

[racheljoyscotts]

“A Star Wars buff from early childhood, Steven Curnow could recite from memory every line in each of the films and was counting the days until the May 19 release of the latest in the series. “He collected the books, watched all the movies and had all the video games,” says an uncle, Richard Brandenburger. The freshman, whose sister Nancy is 20, dreamed of flying Navy F-16s and loved soccer. “When he kicked the ball, it was like a rocket coming at you,” the family said in a prepared statement. “It’s hard to imagine life without him.“

[racheljoyscotts]

“A born-again Christian as of 1997, Cassie Bernall was active in church youth programs and Bible study groups. Her parents called her “Bunny Rabbit” and said she loved to go rock climbing in Breckinridge. She had recently visited Great Britain and her favorite movie was ‘Braveheart’. For a long time after the shootings, it was believed that she was the girl in the library who was asked by one of the shooters: “Do you believe in God?” and was subsequently shot because she said “Yes”. There is still controversy surrounding this – according to the Columbine Report, several witnesses claim that the conversation occurred between gunman Eric Harris and surviving victim Valeen Schnurr. Valeen herself has verified this fact. However Joshua Lapp, a witness to the library shootings, said in his interview with investigators that the shooters asked several people if they believed in God and the answers given didn’t seem to dictate who was shot or not.”

[racheljoyscotts]

“Isaiah Shoels faced challenges most kids never have to deal with. When he underwent heart surgery at 7 months to repair a malformed valve in his left ventricle, doctors warned that he might not live past age 5. Instead, Shoels went on to play in a youth football league and to wrestle for Columbine, lifting weights to pack 120 pounds of solid muscle onto his diminutive 4'11" frame. “He took those stumbling blocks and made stepping stones out of them,” says his father, Michael, who owns a small record company. As one of 16 African-Americans at Columbine, Shoels, a senior—and others of his five siblings—had heard the occasional racial taunt, and it seems to have been his color that marked him for death. “They targeted Isaiah,” says his father, who heard from eyewitnesses how his son died. “When they ran into the school, they started hollering, ‘Where’s that little n—-r?’ ” After they found Shoels in the library, they shot him in the head. “Isaiah was color-blind,” says his father.”

[racheljoyscotts]

**Side note - The article I got this quote from was the People Magazine issue from early May, 1999! (As were the other victims posts I made at the same time.) Obviously, they didn’t have as much factual information that early on. So I hope that explains it for the “that’s not true!” People commenting for nearly a decade now.

[racheljoyscotts]

“Sophomore Matt Kechter had big plans for his junior year. A 6-foot, 215-lb. offensive lineman on the varsity football team—and a straight-A student in the classroom—Kechter was determined to crack the Columbine Rebels starting lineup in the fall. “He was on track,” says family friend Mike Mesch, who coached Kechter in junior high. “He was big and strong and loved charging out of that huddle.”

Kechter was the kind of son football-loving parents dream of. His father, construction supervisor Joseph Kechter never missed a game, and Ann, his mother, organized the team’s year-end party. His only sibling, Adam, 12, idolized him. In death, Matt was reportedly found in the library with his arms around another student. “He was protecting someone,” says Mesch. “That was Matt.”

[racheljoyscotts]

“On the volleyball court, where she reigned as team captain, 5'11" senior Lauren Townsend was known for her graceful style and mean spike. At the animal shelter where she worked after school, she had a distinctively gentle way with the frisky inmates, whom she fed, bathed and exercised. (Her own pride and joy was a small Yorkshire terrier named Bailey.) And at Columbine, where her 4.0 grade point average had earned her President Clinton’s Award for Education Excellence and membership in the National Honor Society, she was a leading contender to be one of the Class of ‘99’s valedictorians. Townsend planned to work as a technician this summer on a research trip to South America. In the fall, the future wildlife-biology major would have entered Colorado State University on an academic scholarship. But for all of Townsend’s accomplishments, what schoolmates remember best was the force of her personality. “She had a huge effect on everyone,” a teacher told her parents and three older siblings. “There’s a lot of Lauren in that whole school.”