The arraignment was the same week as the Columbine massacre. I remember reading all sorts of articles trying to grasp why the Columbine killers had done it, retracing their steps, reckoning with where it had all gone wrong for them. Was it the fault of video games, Hollywood, high school bullying? But I didn’t understand the point in offering them the privilege of narrative. I was more fixated on the paths that had come to an end.
