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The Columbine High School massacre, commonly referred to as Columbine, was a school shooting and attempted bombing that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. The perpetrators, twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered twelve students and one teacher.
- 15 (including both perpetrators)
- Columbine, Colorado, U.S.
- April 20, 1999; 24 years ago, 11:19 a.m. – 12:08 p.m. (MDT)
- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
- Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris
- Columbine Shooting Victims
- She Said 'Yes'
- Columbine Shooting Investigation
- Columbine Massacre Aftermath
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At approximately 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, dressed in trench coats, began shooting fellow students outside Columbine High School, located in a suburb south of Denver. The pair then moved inside the school, where they gunned down many of their victims in the library. By approximately 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 stud...
Victims of the Columbine shooting include Cassie Bernall, 17; Steven Curnow, 14; Corey DePooter, 17; Kelly Fleming, 16; Matthew Kechter, 16; Daniel Mauser, 15; Daniel Rohrbough, 15; William "Dave" Sanders, 47; Rachel Scott, 17; Isaiah Shoels, 18; John Tomlin, 16; Lauren Townsend, 18, and Kyle Velasquez, 16.
In the days immediately following the shootings, it was speculated that Harris and Klebold purposely chose athletes, minorities and Christians as their victims. It initially was reported that one student, Cassie Bernall, was asked by one of the gunmen if she believed in God. When Bernall allegedly said, “Yes,” she was shot to death. Her parents lat...
Subsequent investigations determined Harris and Klebold chose their victims randomly, and the two teens originally had intended to bomb their school, potentially killing hundreds of people. There was speculation that Harris and Klebold committed the killings because they were members of a group of social outcasts called the Trenchcoat Mafia that wa...
In the aftermath of the shootings, many schools across America enacted “zero-tolerance” rules regarding disruptive behavior and threats of violence from students. Columbine High School reopened in the fall of 1999, but the massacre left a scar on the Littleton community. Mark Manes, the man who sold a gun to Harris and bought him 100 rounds of ammu...
Learn about the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, when two teens killed 13 people and themselves after failing to detonate bombs. Find out who the victims were, what motivated the gunmen and how the tragedy sparked a national debate on gun control and school safety.
Apr 18, 2009 · Columbine High School shootings, massacre that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, leaving 15 dead, including the two students responsible for the attack. It was one of the deadliest school shooting incidents in American history.
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Apr 18, 2024 · A rose stands at the plaque for Corey DePooter, one of the 12 student victims in the massacre at Columbine High School nearly 25 years ago, at the Columbine Memorial, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Littleton, Colo. Trauma still shadows the survivors of the horrific Columbine High School shooting as the attack’s 25th anniversary approaches.
Nov 13, 2009 · On April 20, 1999, two teenage gunmen kill 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, south of Denver. The crime sparked a national debate on gun control and school safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what motivated the teen gunmen. Learn more about the Columbine massacre and its aftermath.
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Apr 20, 2024 · On 20 April 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold drove to Columbine High School in Colorado and murdered 12 students and one teacher, injuring 21 others. I was one of the first reporters on...
Apr 19, 2024 · Since the 1999 massacre, 415 people have been killed in U.S. school shootings. The epicenter of the Columbine High School mass shooting was the library, where Craig Scott was studying for a ...
