Parent of slain Columbine student addresses Catholic high school

Published: 2003-11-25

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Beth Nimmo, mother of Rachel Scott, one of the Columbine High School students killed during a shooting rampage at the Littleton, Colo., school four years ago, said the tragic event "demands a spiritual response." During a November ceremony at St. Genevieve High School in Panorama City, the mother of 17-year-old Rachel told students and faculty members that God was preparing people before the killings on April 20 "for his witness." She described her daughter as bubbly and outgoing and as someone who "had a strong love and devotion to Jesus Christ." According to Nimmo, Rachel had a premonition of her death and wrote in a journal on May 2, 1998: "This will be my last year." Other journal writings, gathered in a book by Nimmo called "Journals of Rachel Scott," reveal that the teen had a "heavy heart" over the society "we've created" where kids kill kids.

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