Editing Rachel Scott (section)

==Murder==
{{main|Columbine High School massacre#The massacre}}
Scott was eating lunch with her friend Richard Castaldo on the lawn outside the west entrance of the school, when [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold|Eric Harris]]<ref name=OOLdeceasedJCSO>{{Cite book|url=http://www.acolumbinesite.com/reports/cr/p11867-11870.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007023504/http://www.acolumbinesite.com/reports/cr/p11867-11870.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 7, 2018|page=JC-001-011868|chapter=Columbine High – OOL Deceased|access-date=October 6, 2018|title=Columbine High School 99-7625 Evidence|volume=2|publisher=Jefferson County Sheriff's Office|location=Colorado}}</ref> shot her four times with a [[Hi-Point carbine|Hi-Point 995]]<ref name=OOLdeceasedJCSO/> Initially shot in the chest,<ref name=autopsyp1/> left arm,<ref name=autopsyp1>{{Cite web|url=http://www.acolumbinesite.com/autopsies/rach1.gif|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904074251/http://www.acolumbinesite.com/autopsies/rach1.gif|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2015|publisher=Jefferson County Coroner's Office|work=Scott, Rachel|location=Colorado|title=Pathological Diagnoses|page=1|access-date=September 4, 2015|date=May 18, 1999|first=Michael J.|last=Dobersen}}</ref> and left leg,<ref name=autopsyp1/> from a distance of 10 to 15 feet,{{sfn|Larkin|2007|pp=48, 199}} she sustained a fourth and fatal wound to her left temple.<ref name=autopsyp1/><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Martyrs of Columbine: Faith and the Politics of Tragedy|page=140}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kystandard.com/content/%E2%80%98thirteen-tears%E2%80%99-legacy-rachel-scott |title='Thirteen Tears': The Legacy of Rachel Scott |access-date=May 23, 2017 |newspaper=The Kentucky Standard |date=May 4, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619233356/http://www.kystandard.com/content/%E2%80%98thirteen-tears%E2%80%99-legacy-rachel-scott |archive-date=June 19, 2013 }}</ref> Castaldo was shot eight times and permanently [[paralysis|paralyzed]] from his injuries.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine|pages=91–92}}</ref> Scott's body was left outside where she died and was not retrieved by the coroner until the following morning.<ref>{{cite book|location=Colorado|first=William H.|last=Erickson|publisher=State of Colorado|date=May 2001|url=https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Columbine%20-%20Governor's%20Commission%20Report.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003125908/https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Columbine%20-%20Governor's%20Commission%20Report.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-10-03|title=The Report of Governor Bill Owens' Columbine Review Commission|page=58|access-date=October 6, 2018|quote=It was not until late the following morning, April 21st, that the coroner was permitted to move the bodies of Rachel Scott and Daniel Rohrbough into the school from where they lay outside it.}}</ref>

Shortly after Rachel was murdered, Harris and Klebold went on a killing spree around the school, claiming 12 more lives and leaving 24 injured. The two perpetrators committed suicide in the school library, the place where they murdered the most victims.{{sfn|Larkin|2007|p=8}} Scott did not personally know Harris or Klebold.{{sfn|Larkin|2007|p=48}} After the killings, Rachel's car was turned into an impromptu memorial in the adjacent Clement Park after being moved from the school's parking lot by grieving students. A chain-link fence was also installed around the vehicle for mourners to attach their tokens of grief such as flowers, crucifixes, teddy bears, and letters of condolence. The car was ultimately covered by the objects left upon it by mourners.<ref name="auto2"/> Rachel's 16-year-old brother, Craig, was also at the school on the day of the massacre; he was in the library where most of the killings occurred; he survived unharmed, although two of his close friends were also murdered.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine|page=11}}</ref>
[[File:Rachel_Joy_Scott_AcuraA.jpg|thumb|Scott's [[Acura Legend#First generation (1985)|Acura Legend]] photographed within Clement Park following her murder, April 1999]]

Craig later expressed extreme regret for his last interaction with his sister: slamming a car door at her when being dropped off at school that morning.<ref name=CraigRevisit/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47FgHOVcfzE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/47FgHOVcfzE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Craig Scott Reflects On The Columbine Shooting Nearly 20 Years Later – Survivor Stories – TODAY|last=TODAY|date=October 2, 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>