Band vocalist Jo Jo Billingsley claimed to have had a vivid premonition of the plane crash the day before it happened. Speaking to reporters while recovering, Matthew Thieu claimed to have had a premonition of the shooting months before it happened. It was also a reasonable nightmare for the boy to have—Deer Creek Middle School had decades previously experienced a fatal school shooting, and the famous Columbine school massacre occurred just 5 kilometers (3 mi) away.