EDDIE WAS DRUG USER WHO AVOIDED CONFRONTATION

Eddie Harris "did not like screaming and hollering. It bugged his
head," his mother, Rebecca Anderson, said.

He was more of the type to avoid confrontation, a "follower,"
Anderson said -- definitely not the type to lead a raid to rip off a
marijuana dealer, carrying a loaded shotgun.

Harris, 24, was shot dead in the home of a marijuana dealer March 16,
a Thursday. Also killed was his companion, Jaeson Shepard.

When Anderson's daughter, Leah told her Eddie was dead, "I figured it
was a drug overdose, I thought suicide, because Eddie was having a
tough time," she said. "I never would have expected him to be shot."

The evening earlier, Anderson was helping her son move out of his
rented Mount Horeb house to another rented home they would share
outside of the village on Highway S. "That's how Eddie ended up with
my van," she said.

Harris did not have a history of drug arrests, and did not seem to
have much in common with Shepard, except for drug dependency, a
scarcity of money and the lack of a father in his life.

He had been "hyperactive" since he was 4 or 5, said Anderson, and was
later diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. "Nobody knew how to
handle him," she said. From the age of 14 on, he held temporary jobs.
He attended Verona High School but did not graduate.

"It bothered him that he could never finish anything," she said.

His life changed for the worse in the summer of 2003, when his
vertebrae were crushed and a leg was broken in a diving accident at
Governor Dodge State Park.

"His back healed wrong; he wouldn't keep the brace on. He needed pain
pills and he has had to have them ever since. He ended up $30,000 in
debt, and kept losing his license and his jobs," she said.

He worked as a cement finisher and liked a job he had installing garage doors.

A former girlfriend turned close friend, Katie Anne McGaw, 21, of
Mount Horeb, said before the shootings, Harris "was talking about
going and doing something to make a lot of money."

His funeral in Mount Horeb was March 21 and was well-attended. Like
Shepard's mother, Anderson has her son's cremated remains at home.

"He really affected a lot of people. Eddie was so nice. I think he
was overly nice. ... I miss seeing him around. I feel empty now.

"... He always said he wanted to take care of me, take care of Mom. I
can't believe this happened, because he wouldn't leave me like this."