See What AncientFaces Does to discover more about the community. And my parents brought me up that way.. from a perpetrator and was killed as she said Yes. One of the students of the school, Craig Scott, who was present in the library at the time of massacre, informed the investigators that during the shooting, one of the two perpetrators had asked a victim if the victim believed in God, to which the victim had replied Yes. According to Scott, he felt the voice was that of Cassie, although he could not see the person, as he was hiding under a table. The letters were addressed to her friend Mona and mentioned Cassies idea of killing her parents and committing suicide. Her funeral was held on a later date for close friends and family. Cassie's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Bernall family tree. A vast array of websites sprang up to defend the erroneous story. 20, 1999BUNNY RABBIT,WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THE ARMS OF OURLOVING LORD AND YES, CASSIE, WE'RE HAPPY FOR YOU.ALL OUR LOVE NOW AND FOREVERMOM, DAD AND CHRIS"P.S. Eric poked the shotgun under and fired. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. He had said "peek-a-boo," following which he had shot Cassie. Cassie spoke of her faith in a youth group video just two days before her death. She made a full recovery, and her story never varied. She died because she knew, and was not afraid to witness to, the absolute truth.). Try again later. More than a century later, we continue to uphold a legacy of serving our community with compassion and professionalism. Her parents, Mark and Shari, were waiting for her when she came to. According to her parents, Cassie had started taking drugs and alcohol early in life. Thanks for your help! The plans for the renovation were introduced and a tour was conducted. Klebold reloaded but did not shoot her again, and Schnurr ultimately survived the massacre. One traumatized young boy made a simple mistake, and the story spread like fire. We saw her as a hero.. Cassie Ren Bernall was an American student who was shot to death during the 'Columbine High School' massacre. The opening was huge. Try again later. Klebold had then loaded his gun again but had refrained from shooting her. It was believed for a long time that Cassie was the victim who had faced the fateful question "Do you believe in God?" A member of the estimated 70,000 person crowd raises a sign with the message 'There Are Angles Among US' during the Memorial Service for the victims of the Columbine High School shooting, April 25, 1999, at the Mann Theatre on Bowles Ave. in Littleton. It also narrates the grieving process of her family in the aftermath of her death. Eric and Dylan passed by several times, but Emily never expected one of them to come under the table and shoot. Nielson eventually dropped the phone to take cover, but it continued recording, and the FBI lab enhanced the tape. The beating had been videotaped. In it, Misty describes her daughter's turbulent teenage life, conversion and Christian faith. She loved to swim and go on bike rides with her dad. Cassie Bernall died a martyr. Students are bused away from Columbine High School after they escaped from the school with police assistance. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. But she knew that if she said yes, she would die, Koeniger said. Two of the victims, teacher William Dave Sanders and student Danny Rohrbough, were shot while helping others escape from the gunmen. Dedicated to a student of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. We have set your language to 8 on The New York Times best-sellers list. Between tears and hugs of comfort, friends remembered Lauren as a perfect student and fun-loving young woman. Link to family and friends whose lives she impacted. On April 20, 1999, two students, cloaked in black trench coats and armed with guns and pipe bombs, opened fire at Columbine High School, killing 15 people, including themselves, and wounding 28 others in the worst school shooting in U.S. history at the time. Along with her brother Chris, she was brought up in a Christian home. Add Cassie's family friends, and her friends from childhood through adulthood. And she had promised her prom date, Nick Baumgartner, to give up her occasional smoking. The casket for Cassie Bernall is carried out of West Bowles Community Church after the funeral on April 26, 1999. Schnurr knows what Cassie's story means to the people around her, knows that many who lived. Rachel's teacher signs her coffin. The book, which incorporates comments from Bernalls husband, Brad, Cassies friends and others, relays additional details on her final moments, including this account from a student who was hiding under a desk in the library, where most of the victims died: I couldnt see anything when those guys came up to Cassie, but I could recognize her voice, he said. It was reported that Bernall had been asked whether or not she believed in God, and she said "Yes", before being shot during the massacre. Michael and Vonda Shoels, parents of slain student Isaiah Shoels, weep at their son's funeral Thursday, April 29, 1999, in Aurora, Colo. Shoels was killed in the shooting rampage at Columbine High School last week and was the last of the victims to be buried. The media was allowed inside Columbine High School on Tuesday, June 15, 1999 for the first time since the massacre on April 20. She may have put a hand up to protect herself, because the tip of one finger was blown away, he said, but she couldnt have had time to do more. See the events in life of Cassie Bernall in Chronological Order, (Victim of Columbine High School Massacre), http://emo1212.blogspot.com/2010/10/she-said-yes.html, https://www.spotern.com/en/people/4445/cassie-bernall. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Try again. I cringe to admit that I repeated the story in Salon that spring. Please enter your email and password to sign in. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. [20][4][5], Last edited on 13 February 2023, at 23:12, She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall, 2010 CENSUS CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Columbine CDP, CO, "10 years later, the real story behind Columbine", "Columbine victim's parents share her story", "After Columbine, martyrdom became a powerful fantasy for Christian teenagers", "Rick Santorum Supports Kim Davis by Repeating Long-Debunked Myth About Columbine", "Far Beyond Columbine, Rancor and Tension", "Songs of Experience: Christian singer looks at life's troubles and offers inspired work", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassie_Bernall&oldid=1139208579, This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 23:12. He beat incumbent George H.W. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. It took her a long time for Cassie to fit in, and she was still adapting at her death, her youth pastor Dave McPherson recounted. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. At Leawood Elementary School, parents were reunited with their children April 20, 1999. The book, which incorporates comments from Bernall's . All the while, detectives and FBI agents leading the massive police investigation fretted over how to break it to the public that it was all a huge misunderstanding. [13][14] Christian churches used the martyr narrative of Scott's and Bernall's deaths to promote themselves and recruit members. Cassie Bernall, a 17-year-old killed in the massacre, was an international sensation for about five months. Four LAPD officers had been accused of using excessive force (assault) on African-American Rodney King, who had been stopped for drunk driving. Youll never believe what happened, she said of her new faith in Christ. It will always remain deep and raw. 1 birth, 1 death, 2 marriage, View Cassie went to a martyrs death, pastor George Kirsten told the mourners, and were going to celebrate that because shes in the martyrs hall of fame., McPherson, the youth minister, said in his message, What the church has talked about for 2,000 years, what every church in this world has talked about on a daily basis, Cassie, you did it., Several years earlier, Cassie had been a troubled middle-school student who, as The Denver Post put it, was enthralled by witchcraft, suicide and a view of life so dark that her desperate parents dragged her to meet with McPherson. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. Coxey was in class when shooting broke out at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, but managed to escape. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. The family of Daniel Conner Mauser, foreground, and Kelly Ann Fleming, rear left, stand together as their loved ones are brought to the altar of the church at the start of a funeral mass at St Frances Cabrini Catholic Church on April 25, 1999, in Littleton. The pain is no less, Bernall writes in her book, released Sept. 10 by Plough Publishing. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. For three generations, the McAulay family owned and operated the funeral homes in Fullerton and Yorba Linda. Her mother found letters in her bedroom discussing her thoughts of killing her parents, and they decided to send her to a new school, Columbine High School, for a new start. Why? he mused rhetorically without giving Cassie a chance to respond before pulling the trigger. Incidentally, Cassie was not the lone Christian killed at Columbine High April 20. Cassie's life was rightly centered on Jesus . Where we share as we remember & make discoveries and connect with others to help answer questions. Cassie had planned to have it cut really short, her aunt said, quoting Cassie as saying, I want enough hair for two or three kids, as many kids as possible.. Cassie R Bernall of Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado was born on November 6, 1981, and died at age 17 years old on April 20, 1999. In living as a Christian, she said, I just try to not contradict myself, to get rid of all the hypocrisy and just live for Christ.. Steven Curnow: The youngest of the victims at just 14 years old, his funeral was held at Trinity Christian Center. In a statement issued at Cassie's funeral, her parents said:"Her life was rightly centered around our Lord Jesus. Cassie rallies with fevered altar calls erupted around the globe. Cassie Ren Bernall was born on November 6, 1981, in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US, into the Christian family of Misty and Brad Bernall. The funeral was held at Heritage Christian Center. They made it and Danny didnt, according to an account of the funeral in the Denver Rocky Mountain News. Today marks 20 years since 12 students and one teacher went to Columbine High School and never returned. Sure, she was long over the worst stage of adolescent rebellion, but I was still waiting for that final emergence every mother waits for, when a daughter reaches true adulthood and becomes a companion and a friend, Bernall writes. Brad keeps saying that if there is one thing that makes all of this bearable, its the fact that Cassie is in heaven, Bernall writes. 53 years shorter than Early in the Republican presidential undercard debate tonight, Rick Santorum dredged up a powerful old Columbine myth to defend Kim Davis, Kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, and to illustrate the steepness of America's moral decline. Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis at the Littleton Public Library Friday afternoon, April 23, 1999. In 1995, at the age of just 14 years old, Cassie was alive when on October 16th, the Million Man March took place on the National Mall in Washington DC. AP Members of the Columbine High School volleyball team hug the. Teacher Judy Greco is overcome with emotion as she describes the events at Columbine High School to a police officer. The story is told by her mother and includes the last few years of Cassie's life and how she had gone through a complete change in attitude. Although investigators and Cassie's friend Emily Wyant, who was hiding along with her under the same table in the library when she was killed, told Cassie's family that the question was not asked to Cassie, her mother, Misty Bernall, included the story in the memoir She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall. Cassie's family stood by its accuracy. And she definitely doesn't want to be known as the girl who punctured the myth of Cassie Bernall. It is just that I have personally received great strength and new faith, since I have known of Cassies story for the first time, by reading her mothers book, and I have focused some parts of my religious life about her. She was near the cafeteria when the shooting began. His friends, teammates, and family members . This was the first time, emotionally, she has been able to come to Clement Park. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Cassie Bernall (5742897)? No. Columbine survivor Pat Ireland watches from the family car as his father, John, embraces Pat's Physical Therapist, Sarah Gorner, outside Craig Hospital on July 2, 1999. Some days they make headway, and on others they get tangled or fall down, she writes. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/cassie-bernall-43398.php. When we share what we know, together we discover more. 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