Brooks Brown is a 1999 grauate of Columbine High School and a friend of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre. On the day of the shooting, he was smoking outside the school when he saw Harris drive into the parking lot. Brown walked up to him, called him a few names, and then asked why he was not in class that period. Harris replied, "Brooks, I like you now. Get out of here. Go home."