<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Colorado School Gunman Left a Suicide NoteBy CATHERINE TSAI, APBAILEY, Colo. (Sept. 29) - The gunman who took six girls hostage in a high school classroom and killed one of them before taking his own life left a suicide note, the sheriff said Friday.The note had been delivered to a relative of the gunman in Colorado, Sheriff Fred Wegener said. He did not release the contents of the note.Investigators had traced the handgun used in the shooting to the relative, and the man told agents he had received what appeared to be a suicide note. Wegener did not identify the relative, who he said did not live in Bailey.Authorities say Duane Morrison shot and killed 16-year-old Emily Keyes on Wednesday before killing himself as SWAT team members stormed at Platte Canyon High School classroom.Morrison molested all of the six girls and sexually assaulted at least two of them, Wegener said Friday.Authorities say they knew of no connection between Morrison and the hostages he held for four hours after bursting into a college prep English class at the high school.Wegener said Thursday the suspect approached a male high school student Wednesday and "asked about the identity of a list of female students." The sheriff said he wasn't sure if it was a written list or names rattled off by Morrison.It was not disclosed whether the list included Keyes.Video from cameras outside the school showed Morrison sitting in his Jeep in the school parking lot for about 20 minutes and then mingling with students as classes changed, nearly 35 minutes before the siege began, KCNC-TV in Denver reported.Investigators said Morrison, 53, was a petty criminal who had a Denver address but apparently had been living in his battered yellow Jeep.Morrison walked inside the school with two handguns and a backpack that he claimed contained a bomb. Investigators did not say what was in the backpack.During the siege, Morrison released four hostages. While still holding two girls, he cut off contact with deputies and warned that "something would happen at 4 o'clock," authorities said.About a half-hour before the deadline, a SWAT team used explosives to blow a hole in a classroom wall in hopes of getting a clear shot at him. When they couldn't see him through the gap, they blew the door off the hinges to get inside, said Lance Clem, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.Morrison fired at the SWAT officers, shot Keyes as she tried to run away and then killed himself, authorities said. During the gun battle, police shot Morrison several times, they said.Classes were canceled for the rest of the week as the community tried to come to grips with the bloodshed, which evoked memories of the 1999 shooting rampage that left 15 dead at Columbine High School, less than an hour's drive away.Louis Gonzalez, a spokesman for the Keyes family, said the girl's father was among the parents anxiously awaiting word from their children during the standoff. John Keyes had just bought Emily and her twin brother cell phones for their 16th birthday."How are U?" a volunteer text-messaged Keyes on her father's behalf.At 1:52 p.m., she messaged back, "I love U guys.""In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this," Gonzalez said. "It's what Emily would have wanted."Student Chelsea Wilson said she was in the classroom when the gunman came in and told the students to line up facing the chalkboard."All the hairs on my body stood up," she said. "I guess I was somewhat praying it was a drill."One by one, the gunman started letting students go. Chelsea, a tall brunette, said she was the first to leave. Her mother, Julia Wilson, said she thinks the gunman selected the blond, smaller girls. Keyes' yearbook photo shows a smiling blond girl with blue eyes.Chelsea said she heard what might have been a gunshot after she left the classroom."He's a pervert," she said. "I'm not sure of motivation. I just knew it wasn't good."Residents of this mountain town of about 3,500 gathered Thursday at the Platte Canyon Christian Church for support. Others stopped by the Cutthroat Cafe, where Keyes had worked for about two years."It's very sad here. You know, the family lost their daughter but as a community, we lost a child," said Bobbi Sterling, a waitress and cook. "We're just sitting here, numb and in shock. We're all just kind of stunned."Associated Press writers Chase Squires in Bailey and Don Mitchell, Dan Elliott, Sandy Shore and Pat Graham in Denver contributed to this report.</div>I don't know if you guys heard about this but it's just terrible. My prayers are with all the families and victims (and victims I mean the kids not the shooter, I could care less if he shot himself) of this tragedy....
Are you actually going to pray for the families? Pray to god...the one that allowed this to happen in the first place...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ Sep 29 2006, 02:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Are you actually going to pray for the families? Pray to god...the one that allowed this to happen in the first place...</div>You've got to be kidding me. If you had any idea what you were talking about, you wouldnt have just said that. Do you post this kind of stuff just to aggrevate people and start discussion. The bible strictly says how God allows us to make our own decisions, yet we will just have to pay for the consequences....And what is wrong with praying for the familes when they are in a time of somber and need? I guess you dont have a heart.
I asked him if he actually was going to...Many people say, 'my prayers go out to the families' and they never even pray, it's turned into something you just say and not what you do in a way.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ballerman2112 @ Sep 29 2006, 03:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The bible strictly says how God allows us to make our own decisions</div>o rly?
Ok first of all, if you didn't know BCB, I'm a girl. And second of all, I do actually think and pray for those kinds of things. I have a heart unlike a lot of people in this world. And yeah, God can't really make somebody not do something they're planning on doing so he's not to blame for this.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bballinyao06 @ Sep 29 2006, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ok first of all, if you didn't know BCB, I'm a girl. And second of all, I do actually think and pray for those kinds of things. I have a heart unlike a lot of people in this world. And yeah, God can't really make somebody not do something they're planning on doing so he's not to blame for this.</div> Well, I'm going into law enforcement to help people so you can't say I'm heartless.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ Sep 29 2006, 09:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Well, I'm going into law enforcement to help people so you can't say I'm heartless.</div>Yeah, anyone who beats up black guys must have a heart.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Well, I'm going into law enforcement to help people so you can't say I'm heartless.</div> I wouldn't say all law enforcement have a heart. Not agreeing that you don't have one.
Yeah, I didn't say you didn't have a heart either BCB. I was referring to people like the gunman who don't have any respect for life whatsoever.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bballinyao06 @ Sep 29 2006, 06:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ok first of all, if you didn't know BCB, I'm a girl. And second of all, I do actually think and pray for those kinds of things. I have a heart unlike a lot of people in this world. And yeah, God can't really make somebody not do something they're planning on doing so he's not to blame for this.</div>I thought God was all powerful.
He is in a way but he can't really make somebody not do something they choose to do. He can't freeze people to make them stop what they're doing because if he could, there wouldn't be any violence in the world and we would be living in a crime-free world...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Sep 30 2006, 04:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That's f*cking sick. What a sick bastard. I wish he got his dick cut off before he killed himself.</div>calm down with the keyboard now dont hurt yourself lolwell I dont know what the world is coming to.
