Students testify against Hainstock

Students Say Hainstock Also Picked On Others:

Today students from Weston High School testified about the bullying allegations in the trial of Eric Hainstock.

17-year-old Samuel Brandt testified that he saw Hainstock get in pushing and shoving matches with other kids in the halls, that he often tormented younger students and tried to pick on older kids, who in turn picked on him.

18-year-old Kimberly Durst says others may have dished it out to Hainstock, but “he dished out right back.”

So basically he was a belligerent punk.

Another student testified on Saturday that Hainstock was asking about Columbine the day before the shooting.

Caitlyn Goldben, a freshman at Weston Schools last year, testified Saturday that Hainstock joined a conversation she had with a friend about a report on Columbine on Sept. 28. Hainstock is accused of murdering Principal John Klang the next morning.

Goldben said Hainstock asked what Columbine was. After he was told that students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 others at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999, he replied, “Oh.”

Goldben said she was friends with Hainstock. Twice he asked her to homecoming, but she turned him down both times.

It was she who told Klang that Hainstock had the tobacco, she testified. During gym class on the day before the shooting, Hainstock approached her and pointed his finger at her like a gun, accusing her of snitching on him, she testified.

She said she feared him so she denied telling Klang. He then began complaining about Nowak again.

“He said he would throw a stapler at him again or shove marijuana down his throat,” she said.

Then he got into the Columbine discussion, she said.

“Eric said, Oh.’ Then he got quiet for a little bit and started talking about Mr. Nowak again,” Goldben said.

Goldben said she told teachers about the conversation, but the district attorney didn’t press her for details.

One of Hainstock’s attorneys, Jon Helland, tried to defuse the testimony by asking Goldben if Hainstock had said Klebold and Harris were “stupid.” Goldben said Hainstock said no such thing.

So he became an insta-mutant. Just add firearms.