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april 17, 1999: columbine’s prom.
i will be adding details to this thread throughout the night, at the same times everything happened exactly 21 years ago.
i will be adding details to this thread throughout the night, at the same times everything happened exactly 21 years ago.
21 years ago, at around 5pm, dylan was getting ready for prom. read below for an excerpt from sue’s book about this, including a description of a home video tom filmed shortly before robyn anderson (dylan’s prom date) arrived.
21 years ago, sometime between 5:30-6:00pm, robyn arrived at dylan’s house. dylan’s parents took pictures of them together and filmed another home video. read below for details.
21 years ago, at about 6pm, dylan and robyn left his house. robyn drove them to kelli brown’s house (where the limo was picking them up from). nate dykeman, kristi epling, and monica schuster were also there.
“robyn & he left at about 6, and he has a big night ahead.” – sue
“robyn & he left at about 6, and he has a big night ahead.” – sue
21 years ago, around 6:30pm, dylan, robyn, and the rest of group all got into the limo. the limo first stopped at janna’s house, and then jessica hughes’ house. after picking them and their dates up, they headed to a restaurant in downtown denver.
21 years ago, sometime between 6:30-7:00pm, eric called susan dewitt and asked her if she wanted to come over to his house and watch a movie with him. she said yes and drove to his house.
21 years ago, at around 7pm, susan dewitt arrived at eric’s house. soon after she arrived, they started watching event horizon. he put his arm around her at one point during the movie.
21 years ago, at 7:45pm, dylan and his limo group were dropped off at bella colibri, a five-star italian restaurant near downtown denver. dylan ate a big meal and there was a lot of silly joking. after dinner, dylan and nate went outside for a smoke and talked about the future.
21 years ago, at around 9:30pm, eric and susan finished watching event horizon. they spent the next 30-60 minutes talking about other movies and making small talk. at one point, eric talked about mike dinkle making fun of him. according to susan, he seemed hurt rather than angry.
21 years ago, around 9:45pm, dylan and limo group left the restaurant and headed to columbine’s after prom, which was at the denver design center. read below for details about the ride there.
21 years ago, at about 10:00-10:30pm, eric’s parents arrived home from their date (it was their anniversary) and met susan. eric and susan then went downstairs to his room and listened to music. they talked about soccer and eric got her an aspirin for her headache at one point.
21 years ago, at 10:15pm, dylan and his limo group were dropped off at the denver design center, where prom was being held. at one point, he slow danced with devon adams to ‘take my breath away’ and kissed her forehead. friends recall him being in a great mood.
“at prom, just three days before the shootings, dylan and i danced to take my breath away. i meant to tell him what a good friend he was and how much i cared for him, but i chickened out.“
– devon adams https://open.spotify.com/track/50jEs9EZZgXJ1oDZVAv7Wp?si=U_QdFtAaRUiz75RrHKCc3g
– devon adams https://open.spotify.com/track/50jEs9EZZgXJ1oDZVAv7Wp?si=U_QdFtAaRUiz75RrHKCc3g
“he used his flash camera to get into a sort of firefight with another student. the other student’s flash had captured a photo of a smiling klebold.”
columbine’s prom theme song https://open.spotify.com/track/0elmUoU7eMPwZX1Mw1MnQo?si=IWb_bylwTWe0k_cmVa3Gww
rachel scott and lauren townsend were also at prom. rachel’s date was nick baumgart. lauren didn’t have a date, but she went with a bunch of her friends.
21 years ago, around 11pm, susan left eric’s house. he kissed her on the cheek before she left. dylan has now been at prom for about 45 minutes. in about an hour and a half, eric will go to columbine’s after prom to meet up with dylan and other friends there.
21 years ago, at 12am, columbine’s prom ended. the limo took dylan’s group back to kelli’s house. robyn and dylan changed before driving to columbine in her car for the after prom. they will meet other friends there, including eric.
21 years ago, at 12:30am, columbine’s after prom started. the theme was “new york, new york.” the gym was decorated with lights and pictures of the city’s skyscrapers and filled with blackjack and poker tables. parents in vegas costumes served as dealers. https://open.spotify.com/track/4ODWgs1CVAZKDbryEodjiz?si=dqm5SvWqTX2pyZjN1B1PgQ
they had ball-toss contests, a jump castle, and a bungee cord plunge. some parents had built a life-sized maze you had to follow to get into the school, and the entranceway was festooned with cardboard mock-ups of the empire state building and the statue of liberty.
eric joined dylan and his limo group. they spent hours in the casino losing fake money. dylan liked the blackjack tables in particular and spent a lot of time at them.
eric spent some time at the carnival section. at one point, he was playing a ball-toss game and throwing the balls so violently that the game monitor had to ask him to calm down.
cassie bernall didn’t go to prom, but went to the after prom. cassie and her friend amanda went to a banquet at the marriott instead of prom.
21 years ago, around 3am, dylan and robyn left the after prom. robyn drove dylan back to kelly’s house so he could get his tuxedo.
at around 4am, robyn drops dylan off at home. the rest of the group was going to get breakfast, but he wanted to go home and go to bed. sue gets out of bed and talks to dylan. he shows her a nearly full flask and tells her she can trust him. read below for more details from sue.
these pictures are from columbine’s 2011 after-prom, but they can give you an idea of how the 1999 one may have looked.
