A Tragic “Success” Story

Dylan Klebold was Eric Harris’s friend, and the other shooter at Columbine High. Both he and Eric had previously been sent to a Juvenile Diversion program (an alternative to prosecution for first-time offenders) after breaking into a car. The program included “anger management” classes and counseling. The two “successfully” completed the program and were released on February 9, 1999. The Columbine shootings took place just two and a half months later—April 20, 1999. The system failed.