He developed a hatred of school – a sentiment shared by Harris. With Harris, he worked at a local pizza place for a time.Īs a quiet teen interested in technology, Klebold didn’t fit in with the dominant jock culture of Columbine High School. Klebold also enjoyed bowling and worked behind the scenes for school productions as a sound man. Like many teenagers, he liked violent video games. By ninth grade, he was friends with Harris and Brooks Brown. He was described as a shy child who loved baseball, especially the Boston Red Sox. Intelligent, Klebold was in a program for gifted students at his elementary school. His parents eventually started their own real estate management company and provided an upper-middle-class life for their family. His father was a geophysicist and a mother worked with the disabled. Klebold was born on September 11, 1981, in Lakewood, Colorado. They killed 13 people and injured 20 before committing suicide. He and his friend Eric Harris developed a hatred of school, and on April 20, 1999, they brought guns and pipe bombs to murder as many students as they could. But he didn't feel like he fit in at Columbine High School in Colorado.
Dylan Klebold was a child of upper-middle-class parents, considered gifted in grammar school.
