Columbine Family Moves To Houston To Heal

Sunday, January 30th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

(Houston-AP) â€“ The parents of the only black student killed in the Columbine High School massacre have moved to a middle-class Houston suburb, saying they hope to rebuild their lives.

Michael and Vonda Shoels relocated to Texas two weeks ago. Their 18-year-old son Isaiah was one of 12 students and one teacher shot to death last April by two teen-age gunmen who later killed themselves.

The Shoelses experienced a variety of criticism in Colorado after talking of a conspiracy theory against their son and filing a250 (M) million dollar wrongful-death lawsuit against the killers' parents.

Shoels says he'll never go back to Colorado. He even plans to have Isaiah's body exhumed from the cemetery in Colorado and brought to Houston.

"That soil ain't fit for him to be in. It's contaminated with hate and racism," he says.