Columbine High School massacre

On April 20, 1999, two senior students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, USA, prepared to kill 12 students a teacher and 21 other students who were injured. The names of the murderers were Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, which right after provoking the massacre decided to suicide. 
The first worrying signs that later called everybody’s attention, were that both Dylan and Eric had a web page and a blog on the internet in which they manifested their thoughts regarding their parents, teachers, students, school and friends; such as how annoying were some the students and teachers and the desire to kill them. To make it worse, they later began to upload instructions that explained how to make explosives and death threats towards Brooks, a classmate. This fact alarmed Brooks mother, who called the sheriff in order to make them be investigated. 
On Junuary 30, 1998, the police caught them with stolen tools and equipment, so they were arrested and sentenced to juvenile diversion. Harris’s parents also decided to sent him to psychology therapy for about a year, until a few months before the attack.
At 11:00 am on Tuesday, 20 April 1999, Eric and Harris arrived at school and parked their cars in place where both of them had perfect view of the cafeteria’s entrance and the main exit of the building. Just a few minutes before lunch time, they entered the cafeteria and set up bombs, which finally didn’t worked. Dispite this, they arranged to get into the cafeteria when everyone was there, and with the 9 mm semi-automatic carbine rifle (which they acquired from a friend, among others) Harris began shotting at Rachel Scott and Richard Castaldo. They continued shotting to many students that were inside the building and then to some others that were located on the entrance of the school, in the soccer field, the library and everywhere they saw somebody on their way. At 11:24 a sheriff got into the school, but he was shot and injured, so they could keep on shooting until 11:42, when they decided to end the massacre and some minutes after they committed suicide.
The columbine High School massacre is known nowadays as one of the most tragic true stories all over the world that thanks to the insanity and mental illness of the terrorists (due to bullying, discrimination and other factors) culminated in injury and death of a large number of young innocents.


By: Clarisa Calvo


Learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre