because she could take care of him and hold him in her arms,caress him and tell him to calm down. I know how bad he was feeling. He needed help.

Jen actually described that she put her head down on Corey’s back after the shooting and ‘played dead’, so she was touching him at the time.

I’ve just explained to you that talking with him would’ve likely drawn the attention of Eric and/or Dylan and that Corey’s injuries were so severe that he could only be helped with urgent medical attention. I don’t know what else to tell you in relation to this.

i read it better now. Thanks for post it. anyways i can’t like Angel have a friendship with Austin. Somenthing says in my mind,i swear. Austin wasnt my angel’s true friend. See my last posts to understand it better.

You’re very welcome! Honestly, the evidence provided to us by JeffCo is so extensive that it can be a little daunting to read through. =) It gets very emotionally draining, too, especially when you read about the events that took place in the library. It’s a terrible thing that can really grab you by the throat and lead to the occasional kneejerk reactions for sure. I personally use the evidence files to make sure that I’m telling things factually and am not just using my own interpretation of events.

Mmm, all of the reports on their friendship called those two guys “inseparable” and “best friends”. Austin’s spoken with nothing but kindness about Corey from what I’m currently able to tell. I can’t imagine what it was like for Austin to escape from that library knowing that his best friend died. I’m not even willing to guess how that felt, though I can imagine the survivor’s guilt that followed. There’s nothing inside of all the evidence we’ve been presented with that would lead me to believe that their friendship wasn’t “true”.

Jennifer was a girl,she could do somenthing. She should take care of him,like Jessica trying to help Lauren. If my angel was moaning,its because he was in so much pain and he needed help. Why? Nobody hold his hand and told him to calm down,nobody have compassion of him. Isnt fair…

How is Jennifer being a girl relevant in her “being able to do something”? I don’t believe that girls should function as default caregivers/caretakers all the time. Guys can do that just as much, as Corey showed by reaching out to everyone under his table and telling them it was going to be okay.

Moans and grunts are one step above total non-responsiveness when we’re talking about the level of trauma Corey went through, so I would say that he may not have been wholly aware of the pain and was probably already slowly sliding into unconsciousness and eventual death. We’re talking multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, neck, arm, and back as well as blunt force injuries to his forehead and knee. From his autopsy summary, I can deduce that he suffered internal bleeding in his chest area. Most who suffer that amount of injury do not survive for very long and go into a semi-conscious state at best, which would be consistent with the witness statements that Corey had passed away before they even left the library.

Providing Corey with support (that’s all it would be, as you cannot truly help someone with these extensive injuries unless you’re a medic) in the verbal and physical sense would have likely drawn the attention of Eric and Dylan. Speaking to Corey, even at a whisper level, could’ve made at least one of the two walk back to their table and ‘finish the job’. We know that they responded to things like Isaiah’s cry for his mother and began targeting an individual based on that, so it’s not a far stretch to assume that any talking done under Corey’s table after they’d gotten shot at could’ve made Eric and/or Dylan re-target them.

That’s the reality of it. I know you think none of this is fair – and no death from that day was truly fair, in my opinion – and I have the impression that you seem to think you would’ve acted differently if you had been there with them that day. Truth is, it’s easy for us to think about what we would have and could have done for any one of them that day.. Reality is often far more painful, traumatic, and terrifying than what we can envision here. We don’t know how we would behave in these situations. I pray none of us will ever have to find out.

If you’re going to stick up for Austin,thats okay. I really know he’s not my angel’s true friend. He didn’t check his pulse,he get out the library fast with Jennifer.

I would stick up for anyone who’s being misrepresented in a tragedy. I don’t think that you or I or anyone else can really say what Corey’s friendship with Austin was like, but the fact that they were friends likely made the ordeal in the library even tougher for Austin to deal with in the aftermath.

In that post, I put screenshots of the witness statements as they are presented to us in JeffCo’s evidence file. You can read Austin’s statement that he checked for Corey’s pulse in one of those. His witness testimony in general doesn’t show any huge anomalies when you compared it with other testimonies, which leads me to believe that he could report factually and accurately about the events in the library that day. I am not willing to contradict Austin’s official statement about his actions. Your belief and opinion that Austin didn’t check Corey’s pulse shouldn’t be presented as fact when the evidence clearly states he did.