Columbine killer’s mother Sue Klebold on relationship with her son
On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into Columbine High School, carrying weapons and homemade bombs, and began slaughtering their classmates. They killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher, and wounded 24 more people before turning the guns on themselves.
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Sue Klebold, Dylan Klebold’s mother, believed that like many parents, she was sure she would have known if something canada goose outlet toronto were wrong with her son but all that changed after the tragedy.
Canada Goose Jackets “Before Columbine happened, I would have been one of those parents,” Klebold told Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview for a special edition of “20/20.” “I think we like to believe that our love and our understanding is protective, and that ‘if anything were wrong with my kids, I would know,’ but I didn’t know, and I wasn’t able to stop him from hurting other people. I wasn’t able to stop his hurting himself and it’s very hard to live with that.” Canada Goose Jackets
In Sawyer’s exclusive interview, Klebold talks about her relationship with her son, the warning signs she missed and the grief and shame she has grappled with for 17 years. This special edition of “20/20” also examined teenage mental health issues, included expert interviews about how to spot and help a troubled child and how other school shootings were prevented.
This was Klebold’s first television interview since the Columbine attacks. The interview coincides with the release of canada goose parka black friday her new memoir, “A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy,” out on Feb. 15. Klebold said she is donating her book profits towards research and charitable foundations focusing on mental health issues.
She has decided to come forward in hopes that sharing her story will help other parents and caregivers possibly learn from her experience and recognize when a child might be in crisis.
“I want people to be aware that things can seem awfully right when things are terribly, terribly wrong,” she said.
Below are a few things Sue Klebold spoke about in the interview:
What Sue Klebold Wants to Say to Columbine Survivors and Victims’ Families
“The one thing, of course, that I want to say is I am so sorry for what my son did, yet I know that just saying ‘I’m sorry’ is such an https://www.estrategias.de inadequate response to all this suffering,” Klebold said. “There is never a day that goes by where I don’t think of the people that cheap canada goose jacket Dylan harmed.”
“You use the word ‘harmed,'” Sawyer observed.
“I think it’s easier for me to say harmed than killed,” Klebold continued. “And it’s still hard for me after all this time. it is very hard to live with the fact that someone you loved and raised has brutally killed people in such a horrific way.”
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On April 20, 1999, Klebold was working at an office where she helped disabled college students when she received a call from her husband Tom, a geophysicist who worked from home. He had called to say there was an emergency.
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Her husband told her two killers wearing trench coats were shooting students at Columbine High School, and that one of Dylan’s friends had called because he was worried that Dylan might be involved.
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She raced home, and after she got there, she learned her son was believed to be one of the shooters.
“The police were there and helicopters were going over,” Klebold said. cheap canada goose “And I remember thinking, ‘if this is true, if Dylan is really hurting people, he has to somehow he has to be stopped.’ And at that moment, I prayed that he would die, that ‘God, stop this, just make it stop. Don’t let him hurt anybody.'”
Klebold would learn later that day that Dylan was dead, but it was the beginning of a long quest to go back over her life with a magnifying glass, looking for her son’s descent and what she missed.
“The last moments of his life were spent in violence, sadism, you know, he was cruel and hateful and I have to own that,” she said.
Today, she and her husband Tom are divorced and he has chosen not to speak publicly.
What Sue Klebold Remembers as the Last Thing Dylan Said to Her
Klebold said Dylan only said one word to her as he rushed out the door early the morning of the shooting.
“I hear him bounding down the stairs, past our bedroom door, and really going cheap canada goose quickly and heavily out the door, as if he were late,” she said. “And I yell, ‘Dyl?,’. and he yelled, ‘Bye,’ and then sort of slammed the door.”
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