Selfharm saving listen to this, 150 lives annually averting nine school shootings. Joining us now is founder of Rachels Challenge Darell scott. Darrell you and i are friend a it is a honor to have you on. I want to begin by sharing with you and bringing up impact Rachel Joy Scott had on my life she changed my life and my walk as a christian, and i want to put forward some of her Journal Entries you discovered six of her journals after her passing and heres some of the things that she wrote. She really had a kind of i would say premonition of what lied ahead she wrote this 11 minutes before and this will be my last year i have gotten what i can. That was in her journal she also traced her Hand And Youll see this here for our viewers hes hands belong Rachel Joy Scott, and will someday touch millions of peoples hearts indead they have. She enwrote this, i am dying we cannily my soul leaves, slowly my body withers i consider it
Homicide and go on to lose her life in columbine and final Picture Darrell is a picture of two eyes, and 13 what you believed were tears but now seeds this was drawing shortly before she lost her life and, of course, 13 innocence died in Columbine Darrell tell us about rachel. Rachel was my middle child a one that was always bringing home stray Cat Or Dog and standing up for the person that was picked on or teased or bullied so much of our program is centered around what she did when she was at columbine before she was killed. Rachels challenge it is incredible i think our viewers a lot of them we hear about these School Shootings. They strike our hearts and people want answers and they want change. And they want to make sure they never happen and Rachels Challenge tell us how you avert nine School Shootings that a quite a Track Record 150
More importantly as we see about 150 suicides that we know of prevented every year, and thats because we bring connection to those young people in their schools. And the 150 is only i it of the iceburg for every child like my daughter who was killed at columbine theres 3 62 children who commit suicide. Kayleigh i remember vividly her Funeral Friend after friend getting up and saying how rachel Joy Scott changed their life she had a message. A Life Code a Chain Reaction of compassion would be initiated if we were all kind to one another Pin Deed Weve seen the legacy of that in rachels challenge you wrote a book about her life. I read about every page of it. An incredible book can you hold it up and share with us about what its about. Its about 300 pages long its a detailed account of not only her life and death, but the aftermatt legacy shes left behind. The millions 31 children that
of them as well and some of them have had heartbreaking loss as kayleigh has described to show grace in this moment, keep cool and wait for the facts. chris: friend of mine, darrell scott, lost his daughter rachel in the columbine attack. shortly afterwards when he was going to her things and able to get the courage up to do it, he found a diary of hers where she talked about kindness and reaching out to people. she said in her last diary entry, the kindness has a chain reaction that spreads out to the school. you reach out to someone you do not know. they were going to hurt themselves or doing something awful like this, can have a real impact and change lives. he started a nonprofit called rachel s challenge where he and his brother go around the country and tell the story and reach out to people. and they know they stopped school shootings in the past. it s that kind of thing that just absolutely does change someone s life and it s a beautiful thing that can be born out of a real t
we will remember you. we will honor you by celebrating life. the victims remember. maybe if i was there, she would still be here. i m don lemon. one week ago in aurora, colorado, one man in one moment changed so many lives in an instant. the dramatic story of what happened in theater nine and the many questions about what was behind the shooting rampage that left 12 dead and 58 wounded. we are learning of warning signs from the suspected gunman that he was seeing a crist and mailed her a package detailing his deadly plans. the package was not delivered in time. we will honor the heros and the victims and the people we don t want you to forget. i have been reporting on this the past week withdrew griffin. madness at midnight, the search for answers in aurora. bat man, comic book legend, lucrative franchise and film star. for quentin wald well, the dark night rises is more than a movie, but an obsession. you were anxious to see the movie. you were a fan. i have be