Columbine parents seek probe into whether officer killed student

LITTLETON, Colo. - The parents of four students killed in the Columbine High School shootings on Wednesday called for a federal investigation of whether a police officer accidentally shot one victim and authorities tried to conceal it.<br> <br> Brian Rohrbough claims his son, Daniel, was shot by Denver police Sgt. Dan O&#39;Shea, not the two student gunmen who killed the other 12 victims in April 1999.<br> <br> Rohrbough said in a court motion filed last week that Arapahoe County Deputy Jim Taylor witnessed it. Taylor and Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan have denied he saw the shooting, and authorities deny any cover-up.<br> <br> Rohrbough&#39;s claim is being investigated independently by El Paso County Sheriff John Anderson at the request of Jefferson County officials. The parents of the four victims, who held a news conference Wednesday, said they had not yet made a formal request for a federal investigation.<br> <br> Rohrbough, Sue Petrone and the parents of Lauren Townsend, Kelly Fleming, and Matthew Kechter said Taylor&#39;s recent denial that he witnessed the shooting, coupled with testimony by a school administrator who said O&#39;Shea told her he might have shot a student, suggests a cover-up by authorities.<br> <br> In a deposition filed in federal court, administrator Celine Marquez said O&#39;Shea told her two days after the massacre that he thought he may have killed a student.<br> <br> O&#39;Shea said last week that he arrived at Columbine after Daniel Rohrbough had been killed. The Jefferson County district attorney&#39;s office has concluded no students were shot by police. <br> <br>

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