Who Said Yes?

Val Schnurr does not want to be known as the other girl who might have said yes.

Cassie Bernall is known as the student who professed her faith shortly before she was shot and killed as Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris went on their shooting rampage through Columbine High School April 20th.

But Jefferson County sheriff's investigators say some students have told them it may have been Schnurr, not Bernall, who professed her faith shortly before being shot.

Bernall's story is told in the book, She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall, which was written by her mother Misty Bernall.

Schnurr has refused to talk about the shooting because she is not sure what happened when Bernall was shot, but as Bernall's book climbs best-seller lists and others accuse her of being a copycat, she and her family are compelled to speak out.

"I don't have anything to clear up," Schnurr told the Denver Post. "I don't want to be famous or deemed anything. I said I believed in God out of respect for myself and respect for God. That's it."

After considering her response silently for a few moments, "frustrated" is how 18-year-old Schnurr describes her reaction to the legend of Bernall's last moments.

In the days following the shooting, Bernall's story was repeated around the world, the label "martyr" soon a part of it.

During those same days, Schnurr lay in a hospital bed, ravaged by shotgun pellets that had entered and exited her body 34 times.

Mark and Shari Schnurr held vigil by their daughter's bedside, and she told them what had happened.

As she bled from her wounds Schnurr remembers uttering, "Oh, my God, oh, my God, don't let me die."

That's when one of the shooters asked her if she believed in God and she said yes.

When asked why, she said. "Because I believe and my parents brought me up that way."

Schnurr crawled away as the gunman reloaded.

Schnurr somehow survived. Her friend Lauren, did not. And neither did Bernall.

Investigators told Mark Schnurr that a student who helped authorities retrace the events in the library got physically sick when he realized it was Val's table, not Cassie's, that he was pointing out to authorities.

"In the end it doesn't really matter who said what," Mark Schnurr said. "What matters to me is my daughter."

Like several students affected by the nation's worst school shooting, Schnurr has been asked to speak about her ordeal.

But because her experiences have been less publicized than Bernall's, Schnurr said she's been accused of being a copycat and hr "real" relationship with God has been challenged, once at a evangelical youth rally honoring Bernall and shooting victim Rachel Scott. That's where her frustration was born.

"It's hard to know what I experienced, to know what I know is real and then have it questioned that's hurtful," Schnurr said. "But you just give it up to God. You move on.

"The reason I'm saying anything about it now is that it's hard to keep quiet when everyone is talking. So one last time, this is what happened to me. ... I just don't want anything I say to hurt the Bernalls."

The Bernalls issued a statement Saturday apologizing for any actions that may have hurt or offended anyone.