The Harrises gave a history of Eric’s life up until Columbine, Dave Thomas says…….. “They [the Harrises] basically narrated for a couple of hours.”…..
Thomas thought they were more cautious than the Klebold’s. Wayne looked to be controlling his emotions, possibly owing to his military background.
“They had a lot of photos with them,” Thomas said. “They passed them around and let us look at them and I think at least the sense that I got is that they were very passionate about wanting us to understand that this was a young man not unlike most young men. That he wasn’t some diabolical monster, or that he had been causing trouble throughout his life and was somehow, was a bad seed, so to speak.
Lots of family photos, and birthday parties, and soccer pictures, and places they’d lived, photographs of places they’d lived.
Wayne Harris talked about being a military family, and that Eric was often the new kid in school. “Did that seem to cause any problems for him” someone asked. “No, not that we were aware of,” Wayne said. “I mean, he seemed to adjust very well.”
…. “It was, I think during parts of it, very emotional. I mean they were very distraught. I think both the Harrises expressed dismay at how this … how their son could have been involved in this. I would describe them as agonized. Physically, they appeared to really to be in agony over all this.”
Wayne Harris groaned whenever events at Columbine were mentioned. “It was just like complete disbelief,” Thomas said.
Katherine Harris, Thomas believes, cried at one point. “Obviously, in conflict about, I think, some mixed feelings,” he said. “I mean, she obviously loved her son a great deal but obviously was pretty much aware of what he’d done but very conflicted over, ‘How could this be?’ I mean, ‘How could he have done these things?’”
District Attorney, Dave Thomas on interview with Wayne & Kathy Harris - October 25, 1999
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