Dr. Chris Colwell's Major, Nonsensical Discrepancies

How could the physician who pronounced everyone dead get so much wrong?

Dr. Chris Colwell's statements deserve a close examination. Colwell was the physician who (allegedly) pronounced everyone dead at Columbine High School.

Dr. Chris Colwell is not a name discussed often enough, which is surprising given the odd nature of his descriptions of the scene. What he says he saw in the library doesn't match what we have been told.

You would expect Colwell to tell a story that matches the official story, documented evidence, crime scene diagrams, notes, and summaries. However, that's not the case. Colwell is THE biggest reason to question the official narrative.

Colwell presents five major problems:

1. He claimed that a shooter was wearing a bulletproof vest, which contradicts the crime scene documentation.

2. He claimed that a victim was found slumped over in a chair in the library hallway, but that would mean there was an additional victim unaccounted for.

3. He told reporters that the body of the suspect matching Dylan's description was discovered wearing or lying on top of a trench coat, which contradicts the crime scene documentation.

4. He stated that one of the suspects was found with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. That isn’t accurate.

5. An unknown victim was pronounced dead in the hallway just outside the library door. Could it be the victim in the chair? This couldn't have been Sanders since he was found in a science storage room that was far from the library entrance.

Problem #1: A shooter was found wearing a bulletproof vest, but that's not what the library team 2 documentation says.

Below is a video of Dr. Colwell explaining that one of the shooters was found dead wearing a vest of some sort, like a bulletproof vest. Was he describing Eric's bandolier? Dr. Colwell pronounced Eric Harris dead. He saw his body close up. How do you confuse a bulletproof vest with a strappy bandolier?

Here is one of the clearest images of Eric wearing his bandolier:

It's easy to see how a bandolier could be mistaken for a bulletproof vest from the front in a low-quality video, but in person, close-up?

If there was just one discrepancy between the reports and Dr. Colwell's initial descriptions of the scene, it could be chalked up to a mistake, but we're talking about multiple major inconsistencies coming from the man who saw the scene (allegedly).

Problem #2: Colwell says a victim was found slumped over sitting in a chair, but that would create an additional victim. Nobody was officially found in the hallway.

Dr. Colwell talked about finding one victim, deceased, slumped over in a chair.

Denver Post, April 20, 1999

According to the crime scene documentation, nobody in the library was found in a chair. However, Kyle Velasquez was allegedly shot while sitting in a chair. Although, even that detail depends on what documentation you read.

p.12303, Library Documents, Team 2

As the story goes regarding Kyle Velasquez, Kyle was shot while he was sitting at the computer table. However, the diagrams show his body was found on the floor. And the bloodstains on the carpet where he was shot are consistent with Kyle bleeding out while on the floor, not sitting in the chair.

The location where Kyle's body was found.

Could Dave Sanders have been the victim slumped over in a chair?

According to Jeffco, when SWAT members Beaulieu and Whitus found Sanders in the science room at 2:40 p.m., they called for a paramedic. After waiting 30 minutes for the paramedic, they decided to try to move Sanders out of the building on their own. They put Sanders in a chair and pushed him through some back doors into a storage area - room UA-24 . Right about then, the paramedic arrived and said Sanders was dead.

Problem #3: Colwell told reporters that the suspect matching Dylan's description was found wearing a trench coat (and at times he said he was lying on top of the coat), which contradicts the crime scene documentation.

Denver Post, April 20, 1999

The official story is that Dylan's duster was found spread out on the floor far from his body.

Problem #4: Colwell stated that one of the suspects was found with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. See above Denver Post excerpt for this.

Additional points to consider:

Now we have another interesting piece of information from Randy Brown's book:

"Then he (Doctor Colwell) told us that Eric and Dylan had been moved. The pictures we showed him were distinctly different from his memory of the scene. He remembered them in different positions, closer together, with room to walk around them."

Before taking this at face value, consider that Mr. Brown has a tendency to assert things (to prove his points) that are easily verified to be false. For example, he claims Rachel Scott died 12th in a firefighter's arms, but anyone can watch the helicopter footage to see that her dead body was dragged from where she was shot, all the way behind a fire truck by SWAT and no firefighter was ever with her. When asked for proof that Rachel died 12th, Mr. Brown claimed the firefighter who was with her when she died told him personally that she died in his arms. This particular rumor has been floating around Littleton for years, and it’s clearly false.

Plus, the scene, although staged, does not indicate either body has been moved.

Who was holding a pencil when they died?

It's not clear exactly who made this statement (it was either Dr. Colwell or Dave Thomas; the article quotes them both back and forth), but who was holding a pencil when their body was discovered? One of the investigators documented that it was Matt Kechter, but when the Kechters allegedly asked for the pencil, they were told there was no pencil. (Sorry I don’t have the documentation off hand for this, but it is in the official evidence log as having been taken from Matt Kechter’s body).

Seacoast, December 15, 2010

Problem #5: A victim was pronounced dead in the hallway just outside the library door.

Colwell said there was a victim laying just outside the library door. All victims were accounted for inside the library. Nobody was officially found in the hallway. It wasn’t Sanders. So, who was the hallway victim?

Denver Post, April 20, 1999

Who was the hallway victim?

This is a map of the second level where the library and science wing are located. The "X" marks the office where teacher Theresa Miller extinguished a molotov cocktail. After being injured, Sanders was pulled into room SCI-3, as indicated on this map. He was later moved to the storage room UA-24, which is visible at the top of this map:

Here's a view of where the storage room is with the library and hallway in the same view. That's a long distance between the two locations. If Sanders was found in the storage room - even if he was found slumped over in a chair, which he wasn’t - he couldn't have been the victim in the hallway lying just outside the library door.

So many mysteries…