Tag: Dylan Klebold

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Makai Hall was sitting with his friends in the library when the shooting began. He was hiding under a table with Dan Steepleton and Patrick Ireland when the shooters entered the library. When they demanded that everyone with white hats stand up, he held back Dan, telling him: “Don’t move.” At one point Dylan came within line of sight of their table and, smiling, opened fire. Makai was hit in the knee by the shotgun blast. Pat moved to help him and was shot in the head. Pat was knocked unconscious; Makai and Dan played dead. Then Eric Harris threw a home-made C02 bomb that bounced under their table and landed on Dan’s thigh. Dan was too afraid to move; it was Makai who reached over, grabbed it, and threw it back out from underneath the table where it exploded mid-air.

Three days after the tragic event he was interviewed by CNN. He was quite modest when asked to discuss his act of heroism. He also said that he knew Dylan from French class the previous year. They had worked on some class projects together. However, he never made eye contact with Dylan during the shootings.

He was treated for a shotgun wound to the right knee and shrapnel in the cheek. Underwent surgery and spent 3 days in the hospital. He was released April 23, 1999. He graduated Columbine May 20, 2000.

“I thought he was an all right guy. Decent, real smart. He wasn’t the kind of person he’s being portrayed as. He was a nice guy, never treated me bad.”

Makai Hall on Dylan Klebold.

“I kind of thought if I poked my head up and if I told him who I was and he remembered, then he wouldn’t shoot me.”

Makai Hall (On what he thought before Dylan shot him)

What are friends for?  Robyn’s Second Choice.

“I couldn’t decide who, if anyone, I wanted to go with, so finally I convinced my friend Dylan, who hates dances, jocks and has never had a date let alone a girlfriend to go with me!  I am either really cute or just really persuasive!  I think we will have a good time though because we always have fun when we hang out.  He’s a blast as a friend, but I guess it will be kinda wierd to be out with him all dressed up because mostly when we do stuph we just go bowling, watch movies or I help him catch up on the calculus assignments he waits until the last night to do all of.  So, point being, I figured it would be better to go with someone that I know I will have a good time with, but won’t expect anything than someone that I half like that half likes me where who knows what the night could bring.  See my point is of course if you were in town I would take you, but I didn’t figure you would be.”