In the distance, they hear sharp reports and dull explosions. They run, and gunfire follows. The gunmen head upstairs toward the library. Student Aaron Cohn, a ballplayer, is spared because a girl leaps onto his back while he lies on the floor, covering the baseball slogan on his shirt. It was like they were having the time of their life.
Some students are slain at their desks, one with pencil still in hand.
Isaiah Shoels, who is black and has tangled with the gunmen before, is one of those to fall. Look at this black kid's brain. Some kids play dead. Klebold and Harris leave behind shattered windows, bloody floors and a quiet unlike any the library has ever heard. Elsewhere upstairs, Sanders, the teacher, has been shot twice in the chest but manages to get students down a hallway away from danger.