Whenever you deal with 36 families, five defendants and eight or nine insurance companies, things don't move that quickly. A parent who did not settle, Brian Rohrbough, said the timing was cruel. My son's dead. I don't care if this takes me 20 years to get the answers. The families also are in settlement talks with Robyn Anderson, a friend who legally bought Harris and Klebold's three other weapons at a gun show four months before the attack.
Lawsuits are pending against the sheriff's office, the school district and the gun show operator.
New information about the shooting also has come to light in recent weeks. Jefferson County sheriff's officials have released, under a court order, a search warrant for Harris' home that was drafted a year before the attack. Investigators were hoping to link Harris to violent Internet rantings and pipe bombs that had been set off in a nearby field. Officials also released the transcript of an interview with school-based sheriff's deputy Neil Gardner, who told investigators hours after the attack that he did not recognize Harris when the two exchanged gunfire. Days later, the sheriff's office issued a public statement that said Gardner had engaged Harris, Klebold and several of their friends in conversation prior to the attack.