Gunmen paid for weapons, teenager claims
Associated Press
LITTLETON — A teenager said Friday the two Columbine gunmen gave her money to buy three weapons at a gun show, but she did not know they would be used in the school massacre that left 15 dead.
In an interview broadcast on ABC's "Good Morning America," Robyn Anderson, 18, also said she wished she would not have purchased the two shotguns and a rifle for Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris.
"I wish that I had known more. I wish that I had questioned more. I wish now that I hadn't gone with them, that I would have said, 'I feel uncomfortable, maybe you could find someone else...,'" Anderson said.
Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, used the three weapons and a semiautomatic pistol when they stormed Columbine High School April 20, killing a dozen classmates and a teacher and injuring 23 before killing themselves.
Anderson purchased the three guns legally at a gun show in December. Investigators have identified her as a witness. Under Colorado law, an 18-year old without a felony record can legally furnish minors with rifles and shotguns.
Mark Manes, 22, a computer programmer, has admitted selling the pistol to Harris and Klebold. He faces a maximum six-year prison term if convicted of providing the weapon to a minor.
During the interview, Anderson said she and Klebold were good friends who attended the prom together the weekend before the attack.
"I really wanted to go, and I knew that we would have fun if we went together," she said. "And he was happy, you know, the whole night, pretty much, as far as I could tell...."
Anderson agreed to buy the weapons because she knew it would be legal. "It was their money, yes," she said. "All I did was show a driver's license.
"It didn't really seem odd I guess, for them to want guns, so...it was just in their personality trait, I guess, it was just something that they enjoyed, I guess, found interesting...," she said.
"I didn't really have any reason to believe that they would do anything with them, you know, that they would commit such a crime...," she said.
"They were just guys that I knew and hung out with and had fun with. And I never could have seen it coming, so it didn't seem like it was anything — there was anything wrong with it."
A few weeks before the prom, Klebold asked her about the date of the event, as if he "had something else, you know, going on after that," Anderson said. "That's the only thing I can think of that really kind of says, you know, that he had other plans....
"I think that they had kind of a hidden hatred that they just didn't show anyone but each other and I, you know, wish that we could have — their friends — we could have helped them in some way," she said.
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