Columbine Shooting

On April 20, 1999, within the tiny, suburban city of Littleton, Colorado, two high-school seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, enacted a full-scale assault on columbine high school throughout the middle of the school day. The boys' idea was to kill many of their colleagues. With guns, knives, and a large number of bombs, the two boys walked the hallways and killed. Once the day was done, twelve students, one teacher, as well as the two murderers were dead; and 21 of them were wounded. The haunting question remains: why did they decide to do this?

Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were very intelligent; they each came from solid homes with a loving mother and father, and they had older brothers as well. In school, Klebold and Harris had each competed in sports like baseball and soccer. They also enjoyed operating computers for fun.

Harris was born in Wichita, Kansas. His father Wayne Harris was a U.S. Air Force transport pilot who commanded eleven completely different positions in six bases at Ohio, Michigan, and New York. This forced the Harris family to relocate often before Wayne was forced to retire in 1993 thanks to cutbacks and he became a part-time supplier. At this time, on the month of July, the family settled down in Littleton, Colorado. They lived on a where they became best friends. In 1995, Harris started attending columbine high school, in the following year; the Harris family had bought a house very close to columbine high school.

Klebold was born in Lakewood, Colorado. His father Tom ran a little business from home and his mother Susan was an employment counselor. The Klebolds attended a Lutheranism church however additionally he had seen some Russian human rituals, as Klebold's grandparent believed in the relig...

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Sometime between 12:05 and 12:08, Klebold and Harris went to the side of the library and shot themselves in the head, ending the columbine massacre.

It is difficult to pinpoint one trigger that started these two boys on a bloody rampage. They worked very hard to fool all those around them for over a year. Astonishingly, a few months before the event, the Klebold family took a four-day road trip to the University of Arizona, and Dylan had been accepted for next year. Throughout the trip, the Klebold's did not notice anything strange or uncommon regarding Dylan. Counselors and others did not notice them acting weird.

Looking back, there had been telltale hints and clues that there was seriously wrong. Videotapes, journals, guns and bombs in their rooms would where not hidden and could easily be found if they had looked.