1982-1999
Student, Victim

Troubled Youth.

Earlier in her life, Cassie Bernall, a seventeenyear- old student at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, had experimented with drugs and alcohol and had once even discussed killing her parents. She had, however, converted to Christianity at an evangelical summer camp and had abandoned her flirtations with witchcraft for youth-oriented Bible studies and a "WWJD" (What Would Jesus Do) bracelet. When on 20 April 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered the Columbine High School library during a shooting rampage that would leave twelve students, a teacher, and the gunmen dead, Bernall hid under a table. Reportedly, one of the gunmen stood over her and asked if she believed in God. She answered, "Yes, I believe in God." The gunman asked, "Why?" but before she could respond, he shot her to death.

Unlikely Martyr.

Bernall's parents, Misty and Brad, were evangelical Christians...