Give a Boy a Gun #4

As they move through high school we learn more and more about the two. We find out that Gary liked to build things. He would build Legos robots and would program them, like they had a mind of their own. We also find out that during the school shooting, Gary and Brendan had pipe bombs on the doors so people could not get out if they tried. "You hear the police reports about how well constructed and intricate those pipe bombs were. I guarantee you, that was Gary's work," one of his friends said in an interview. Now we are at the part of the book called "The Day it Happened." Many of the people interviewed talked about how surreal it was. Gary and Brendan boobie trapped the doors and when they got into the gym chained the doors shut. Students remember being told to move to the middle of the gym and lay face first with their hands on their head. The first person shot was a teacher who was trying to get the boys to stop. He was not killed however. Gary and Brendan started putting zip ties around some people's hands. Sam Flach, who Brendan in a previous email to Gary said he would kill, was one of the first to be zip tied. Brendan didn't kill him but did break a couple of his ribs. According to the people interviewed, they had everything planned out perfectly. They even brought food and drinks for themselves along with flashlights. They didn't want to kill everyone, they wanted people to suffer. They shot Sam Flech in both knees so they could cripple him. Eventually a negotiator came on. Soon after, Brendan's parents came on the loud speaker trying to plead with him and so did Gary's mom. Gary and Brendan then found out that one of their close friends was in the gym, and when they found out Gary wanted to talk to Brendan. However, this made Brendan furious because Gary didn't want to stick to the plan. Gary shut down and didn't know what to do. He eventually sat down and shot himself. As Brendan was walking over to Gary's body, a kid tackled Brendan and others followed beating him into a coma.