Diary: Gunmen had hoped to kill 500

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Girl, 18, faces questioning

April 26, 1999
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LITTLETON, Colorado (CNN) -- The grieving people of Littleton were set to bury four more victims of the Columbine High School massacre on Monday as investigators revealed the gunmen had hoped to kill hundreds of classmates and teachers and may have had help from a female friend.

Authorities believe that Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, spent more than a year planning last week's gun and bomb assault, which left 12 students and one teacher dead before the assailants committed suicide.

Lt. John Kiekbusch of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department told CNN that a diary found in Harris' home showed he and Klebold were talking about destroying "a substantial part of the school" and killing at least 500 people.

"They came very close to being able to do that," he said on Monday.

Did friend purchase weapons for them?

The two gunmen, both seniors, fired shotguns and semiautomatic weapons and tossed pipe bombs outside the school and in the cafeteria, hallways and school library, police said.

More than 30 bombs also were recovered from the school, including a 20-pound propane bomb in the cafeteria kitchen.

Investigators planned to question an 18-year-old female, reportedly a friend of Klebold's, about whether she purchased any firearms used in the rampage. According to federal agents, the girl "did make the purchase," Kiekbusch said.

Diary mentions hijacking

The gunmen's diary indicates that if they survived, they wanted to hijack and crash an airplane into a large city, "and if that didn't work, possibly fleeing the country," Kiekbusch said.

"It was almost romanticized that if they could pull this off, they'd spend the rest of their lives on an island," he told CNN.

The diary makes no specific reference to an accomplice, he said.

How the killers died

The Colorado physician who pronounced Harris and Klebold dead at the scene said Harris and Klebold each died from a single gunshot wound, one through the mouth and the other to the side of the head.

Dr. Christopher Colwell of the Denver Medical Center said he found Klebold and Harris lying next to each other, on top of what appeared to be a black trench coat, near a window in the corner of the school library.

Ten of their 13 victims were killed in the library.

"If not for the weapons around them and the ammunition belts, it would have been hard to tell them from the other students," Colwell said.

One wore an ammunition belt with a few clips around his chest, over a dark vest which could have been some kind of body armor, and a white shirt, Colwell said.

Beside the bodies were bombs and a duffel bag containing other explosive devices.

More funeral services Monday

Teacher and athletic coach Dave Sanders, 47, who has been hailed as a hero for rushing students to safety after he was wounded, was to be buried on Monday.

Funeral services also were planned for students Cassie Bernall, Lauren Townsend and Daniel Rohrbough.

Services for the remaining student victims are scheduled for later in the week.

On Sunday, more than 80,000 people, weeping and clutching flowers, attended an emotional service for all of the victims, held in an open-air shopping mall parking lot about a mile from the school.

Four Air Force F-16 jets flew overhead in tribute -- led by a graduate of Columbine High School -- and a white dove was released in the air for each of the 13 victims.

Correspondents Carol Lin and Martin Savidge contributed to this report