Evan was an outsider, someone who didn't fit in with the athletes and popular kids at school. But he did have friends, like Tiffany Gwinn, who says he was depressed. In Santee, California, classmates of Andy Williams say he felt rejected by other students. But Renee Erb, who prosecuted Evan, says that the blame lies squarely on his shoulders and that he is a bad person. There are some people in this world that are no good.
Nobody really knows where they come from or why.
She points out that he planned the crime ahead of time. But Evan did not plan his violence alone. The parallel to Santee, California, is striking. Andy Williams apparently shared his plan with more than 20 other students, and not one of them came forward to warn authorities. In Bethel, Ala., the day of the shooting, a group of students gathered in the second-floor library overlooking the lobby because they were told by Evan and his accomplices that something big was going to happen.