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Apr 17, 2019 · With the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre just a few away, that school and hundreds of other Denver schools were closed today due to credible threats by an...
- 3 min
- PBS NewsHour
- “There Was A Real Change”
- “The Magnitude of Things”
- “My Particular Path”
- “We’re Fortunate That Way”
- “Running at The Shooters”
That optimism is enshrined at the school itself, in the very name of the Hope Columbine Memorial Library. The families spent the initial year-and-a-half following the tragedy working to fund and build the new library on the back side of the school. For Rick Townsend, the father of 18-year-old Lauren, who was killed in the old library, the push to r...
Missy Mendo was 14 on the morning she fled Columbine, running out of the school with classmates after they realized the sounds they were hearing weren’t students banging on lockers, but gunfire. Like so many others, she thought it was a senior prank. “Then we looked out the window and we could see kids running across the street without looking in a...
Tom Mauser is one of the most recognizable members of the Columbine family, a father who almost immediately began channeling the grief over his murdered son Daniel into a fight for stricter gun-control measures that, 20 years later, continues. But that was never Mauser’s plan. “It was remembering Daniel’s words to me two weeks before Columbine,” he...
Darrell Scott can vividly describe his daughter Rachel, the first person killed at Columbine that spring day, shot four times as she ate lunch with a friend outside the school’s west entrance. He happily goes on about her bubbly personality, her compassion and kindness, her devotion to animals so strong “she would bring home a stray dog, a stray ca...
Coni Sanders knows her father is considered a hero. But for many years, it was more complicated than that for her heart-torn family. Dave Sanders helped evacuate Columbine’s cafeteria before venturing deeper into the school, toward the gunfire. He encountered the killers, who shot him twice in the back and once in the neck — then was pulled into a ...
Apr 20, 2019 · SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Twenty years ago today, the shooting at Columbine High School - for survivors, memories of their experience come up in unexpected ways. People who were students in...
t. e. 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. [b] 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
Apr 17, 2019 · The new normal. Graves, then 15, was walking outside the school with friends when the shooting began. In addition to the 13 dead, the gunmen shot 21 others, including Graves, and three more...
- National Correspondent
- Trevor Hughes
- 59 sec
Apr 17, 2019 · Two of the four Columbine survivors said they’ve struggled with suicidal thoughts since 12 students and a teacher were taken from them on April 20, 1999. Zach Cartaya had a “plan to end it”...
Nov 9, 2009 · 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...