GERMANY: SURVIVORS OF COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING IN THE USA AND THEIR FRIENDS VISIT VICTIMS OF RECENT ERFURT SCHOOL SHOOTING

Record ID: 324538

  • Title: GERMANY: SURVIVORS OF COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING IN THE USA AND THEIR FRIENDS VISIT VICTIMS OF RECENT ERFURT SCHOOL SHOOTING
  • Date: 5th June 2002
  • Summary: (U4) STUTTGART, GERMANY (JUNE 5, 2002)(REUTERS) 1. LAS STUTTGART AIRPORT ARRIVAL TERMINAL; MV/SCU ARRIVALS BOARD (4 SHOTS) 0.17 2. SLV U.S. DELEGATION IN TERMINAL AFTER ARRIVING (6 SHOTS) 0.54 3. HAS MV PASTOR BRUCE PORTER (IN MIDDLE WITH TIE) WITH TWO OTHER DELEGATION MEMBERS; SCU DELEGATION MEMBER HOLDING COLUMBINE SEEDS; MV DELEGATION MEMBERS GREETING EACH OTHER (6 SHOTS) 1.46 4. SOUNDBITE (English) PASTOR BRUCE PORTER SAYING "Our delegation came from Columbine with the sole purpose of showing compassion and a heart of condolence toward the people of Erfurt and Germany in general over this tragedy that happened there. We feel very strongly the same things. We understand something of what the people are going through, the grief process and the sorrow that they are experiencing, the loss of their loved ones. Unfortunately we now both belong to a club that neither one of us wanted membership in." 2.24 5. SOUNDBITE (English) EVAN TODD, COLUMBINE STUDENT SAYING: "I was standing in the school library when the shooting started. The killers came in and opened fire. I was standing by the librarians desk. They fired and I was hit in the back by a... 3.13 6. HAS DELEGATION IN TERMINAL 3.18 7. SOUNDBITE (English) TODD SAYING "When I stay up there and talk to someone about this problem the people I am talking to are my age. This is something that can happen, this is something that is real. I think that is why it gets such good reception. There is no war going on overseas or over here. Those things do not affect kids that are our age. But this topic does and that is why I think that they will be really receptive to it and I think they will learn as much as they can because they don't want to go through it." 3.53 8. SOUNDBITE (English) ETHEL SCOTT, MOTHER OF COLUMBINE STUDENT RACHEL SCOTT WHO DIED IN LITTLETON ATTACK, SAYING "I'm wide open on my expectations but what I would like to be able to do would be to meet at least a few of the victims families and offer... 4.12 9. HAS GROUP IN AIRPORT TERMINAL 4.16 10. SOUNDBITE (English) SCOTT SAYING "When it started coming over the news and I got a call from my oldest daughter about the shooting it still wasn't real. It was almost like Craig and Rachel will be o.k.. Both of them were involved, Rachel being killed and Craig barely escaping with his life as a survivor in the library. So, it never occurred to me that I would have two children that would be in the middle of gun fire and that I would lose one." 4.49 11. SCU STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF RACHEL SCOTT; SLV DELEGATION LEAVING AIRPORT (2 SHOTS) 5.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th June 2002 13:00
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  • Location: STUTTGART, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVACJ81AUK0CGLL37UH5PKUS8N6L
  • Story Text: Survivors of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting
    in Littleton, Colorado and their friends have arrived in
    Germany to share their experience with victims of the recent
    school shooting in Erfurt.

    Littleton pastor Bruce Porter arrived with Columbine
    High School students, parents and friends in Stuttgart on
    Wednesday (June 5, 2002) for a five-day trip to Erfurt, site of
    the worst school shooing in Germany's history.

    "Our delegation came from Columbine with the sole purpose
    of showing compassion and a heart of condolence toward the
    people of Erfurt and Germany in general over this tragedy that
    happened there," said pastor Porter.

    The group will travel to Erfurt on Thursday. There they
    will hope to meet families of victims of the April shooting in
    the Gutenberg high school in which a former student shot 16
    people before killing himself.

    The U.S. delegation also wants to meet policemen and
    relief experts who where on the scene on April 26.

    "We understand something of what the people are going
    through - the grief process and the sorrow that they are
    experiencing, the loss of their loved ones," Porter told
    Reuters in Stuttgart, adding, "Unfortunately we now both
    belong to a club that neither one of us wanted membership in."
    Columbine students like Evan Todd, who was shot in the
    back in the Littleton shooting, would like to share their
    experience with youths of his own age while in Erfurt.

    "When I stay up there and talk to someone about my problem
    the people I am talking to are my age. This is something that
    can happen, this is something that is real. I think that is
    why it gets such good reception," Todd told Reuters.


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