Judge orders more Columbine tapes be released

May 26, 2000
Web posted at: 7:14 PM EDT (2314 GMT)

GOLDEN, Colorado (CNN) -- A judge Friday ordered the release of more videotapes from last year's mass shootings at Columbine High School in nearby Littleton, Colorado, that left 15 dead.

District Judge Brooke Jackson ordered that tapes made from security cameras in the school cafeteria be turned over to families suing the Sheriff's Department as well as the parents of the two gunmen. Jackson said this should be done "promptly."

The tapes show students taking cover under tables, pipe bombs exploding and short segments when gunmen Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are in the cafeteria, where larger bombs that did not explode were found later. Most of the killings happened in the school library after the gunmen left the cafeteria.

Portions of the tapes were released as part of the sheriff's report on the Columbine shooting made public May 15.

Jackson also ordered the release of a 58-page ballistics report "for both perpetrators' guns and law enforcement guns." The parents of one of the school victims contend their son may have been accidentally shot by a sheriff's officer.

Friday's court order is the latest in a series requiring the release of investigative materials related to the April 20, 1999 school massacre that ended with the suicides of the two shooters.

The parents of students who were killed or wounded at the school requested the materials be released under Colorado's Open Records Act.

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