ssie Bernall was hiding behind a table in the library when one of the shooters told her to stand up and asked her if she believed in God. She told him yes and the shooter shot her because of her faith. Cassie collapsed and died on the library floor. There are other tales of students being shot because of their faith.Before Cassie Bernall became a Christian, she was an outsider at school. Cassie had written letters to a friend about how she could kill her parents, Brad and Misty Bernall, and end all of her problems. Cassie’s parents found the letters, made copies of them, and gave them to the police department. When Cassie got home from school, her parents confronted her. After the confrontation, the Bernall’s broke all of Cassie’s ties with her friends. The Bernall’s enrolled Cassie in a Christian school. Cassie was not allowed to answer the phone and no longer had any privileges. She was allowed to go to a youth group, but that was all she could do. Her parents even went as far to put a monitor on their phone so they could know what she was doing when they weren’t home. Cassie had lost all of the trust that she earned from her parents. Misty Bernall didn’t go back to work so that she could watch over Cassie. Cassie had her backpack searched, her phone calls monitored, and her bedroom searched. Furtively investigating their daughter, they say, Cox 3was the hardest thing they ever had to do--until they had to close their daughter's casket. Then something happened. A shift, a transformation, occurred. At a weekend outing with her youth group, Cassie Bernall poured out her heart, asked for forgiveness, and moved to break off the bonds that held her fast. Her turn-around was not a moment of sudden, blinding revelation so much as the culminating point of a long process of self-clarification that had been, on Misty Bernall's account, harrowing for all concerned. At first, indeed, the mother w...
