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Confronting

GLASS | Wondery

True Crime, Confronting, Colorado, Society & Culture, Documentary, Goldman, Kim Goldman, Oj Simpson, Confronting Columbine, Exhibit C, Confronting Oj, Amy Over, Rebels, Columbine, Oj, Kim

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Greg Barnes was a star athlete, model student and beloved by friends and family. He brought pride and excitement to Columbine, the Littleton community and Colorado as a rising basketball star in the state. Greg witnessed Dave Sanders get shot and was one of the students who tried to save him. Shortly after the one-year anniversary of the massacre, Greg committed suicide. Amy has held onto her feelings about Greg and her last interaction with him for 20 years. She meets with Columbine’s basketball coach Rudy Martin whose unresolved pain over Greg also still lingers.

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0:00.0	We'll be talking about the impact of gun violence and suicide in this episode.
0:05.8	If these are difficult topics for you, please take care when listening.
0:35.8	My name is Amy Over and this is confronting Columbine.
1:00.4	Confronting Columbine continues with Amy Over.
1:03.6	I'm Nancy Glass.
1:05.0	Amy, you lost 12 students in your coach during the massacre at school.
1:10.7	There was another loss a year later.
1:13.6	Who was Greg Barnes?
1:16.5	Greg Barnes was a star athlete.
1:21.0	Not only just a superstar athlete and basketball player, but he was a sweetheart.
1:26.5	Everyone knew him because you knew that he was going in places.
1:29.5	Was he in your class?
1:31.0	No, he was younger.
1:33.0	But he was playing varsity sports, so I was around Greg a lot.
1:37.5	And he was being scouted by big schools.
1:40.3	He was one of the kids in the science room with Dave Sanders.
1:43.6	He actually saw Dave get shot.
1:46.0	And he died a year later.
1:48.2	He took his own life a year later.
1:50.6	I reached out to his basketball coach Rudy Martin and we reconnected after all this time.
1:59.9	Greg Barnes, a Columbine high student, and one of the top basketball players in Colorado.
2:05.3	Greg did survive the shootings, but one of his best friends did not.
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