Eric Harris’ signature in Nate Dykeman’s yearbook.
Archive for April, 2012
A diagram drawing by Dylan of what him and Eric would wear on the day of that shooting.
Columbine was a school shooting that happened April 20th, 1999. with shooters Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17) killing 12 students, 1 teacher, and then themselves. They wounded 25 other students, some severely, during the rampage.
The massacre started at 11:19 AM and ended at 12:01 PM with Eric and Dylan shooting themselves.
It started early that morning, around 10:30-11 AM when they set two 20 Lb. propane tank bombs in the cafeteria. Their plan was to have those two bombs blow up, bringing the library down onto the cafeteria, killing hundreds of students, and any survivors running out of the school would be shot by Eric and Dylan. Well, that didn’t go as planned. The bombs failed due to poorly made timers that were set to go off at 11:15 AM.
After waiting around for the bombs, they gave up waiting and shot Rachel Scott and Richard Castaldo who were sitting on the grass eating lunch. Killing Scott and paralyzing Castaldo from the waist down.
They shot Danny Rohrbourgh while he was holding the door for kids to escape.
They were walking in the hallways when they shot teacher Dave Sanders as he was running kids to safety. He later died, bleeding to death.
They went into the library and proceeded to kill the next 10 of their victims.
After roaming around the school aimlessly, they returned to the library, went into the southeast corner (where it wasn’t blood soaked, yet,) and shot themselves in the head.
Even though the shooting stopped at 12:01, the SWAT team didn’t enter the school until 3:00.
Columbine was the worst High school shooting in american history. Some think it’s second to Virginia Tech, but VTech was a College shooting.
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