Wearing a mask and camouflage clothing, Botkin entered a classroom in a portable building at his school and took 30 students and their teacher hostage.
Assistant Principal Charlie Coleman negotiated the release of all the girls, then returned later and asks for half of the boys to be released. Sean let seven to eight of the boys go. Just over an hour later he released his final two prisoners.
His only demands were that the helicopters hovering overhead leave. He told investigators that he was tired of being teased by other students. |
