FAME '10 Decades Project - 1990's

Columbine Tragedy

Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold

4/20/99

it took place in Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado

the two boys were feed up with life and took it out on the kids at there high school.

At 11:10 am. on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold arrived at Columbine High School in separate cars. At 11:19 am., a witness heard Eric Harris yell "Go! Go!" At that moment the gunmen pulled out their shotguns and began shooting at Rachel Scott and Richard Castaldo. At 11:37 am., the shooters moved to the center of the library, 12:08 pm, they moved over to the bookshelves there, they shot themselves, committing suicide.

They killed 12 students and 1 teacher that day.

This event shook high school students, teachers, and parents. This is the reason why all school should have cameras. Since Eric & Dylan both were trench coats, all the kids who were trench coats were picked on and they were looked at funny. The massacre provoked debate regarding gun control laws, the availability of firearms in the United States, it made parents think twice about the internet.

this event is significant to me because you never know when someone is going to loose it and kill poor people who should have never died. This was the one event that made kids worried in the 90's. That maybe that weird goth kid might attack me or worse take out half the school. Government made it harder to buy guns and internet was looked at twice. This event shook up the nation and to me as a high school student is the saddest thing I have to write about in this project.