5 findings from Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale's complete diary

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Friday, September 06, 2024

Signage for Columbine High School during a 25th Year Remembrance ceremony on April 19, 2024, at First Baptist Church of Denver in Denver, Colorado. Twelve students and one teacher were shot and killed and many more injured on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in a school shooting that shocked the country at the time. | Marc Piscotty/Getty Images

2. Wanted to make Columbine shooters proud

On an undated and mostly blank page toward the end of the diary, presumably written a week or two before the shooting, Hale declared, “I want my massacre to end in a way that Eric and Dylan will be proud of.” While Hale didn't elaborate on what she meant, she was referring to the perpetrators of the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in 1999.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher in the mass shooting. Another portion of the diary, on another mostly blank page presumably from March 2023, illustrates how the Columbine shooting weighed heavily on Hale’s mind. She identified April 1999 as “the year Columbine” was “born” and wrote out the date 4/20/99, referring to the day the mass shooting occurred.