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Some students trapped inside Columbine High School played hangman and tic-tac-toe while they waited to be rescued during the nation’s deadliest school shooting.
Others wrote out Bible verses, including Psalm 23, inside the outline of a cross. One teacher, worried about the fate of her husband, filled two pages with a litany of pleas to God: “Lord, please protect us — Lord keep us safe — Lord help those that are injured…”
The games and messages written on notebook paper were among 9,735 pages of new evidence released Wednesday by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department following a push from the Columbine Open Records Task Force to release more documents about the April 20, 1999, attack.
