Susan and Thomas Klebold filed suit against the Jefferson County, Colorado, school district and sheriff's department, claiming that had they not mishandled a complaint about violent threats against their son Dylan's friend Eric Harris, the pair would not have been killed along with thirteen other people in a shootout they initiated at Columbine High School. The Klebolds seek damages equal to the claims made against them by victims' families, who contend that had the Klebolds been better parents, they would have forestalled their son's violent rampage.

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