Columbine: The Day Evil Came to School and Changed America Forever
I grew up in the "Murder Triangle." I graduated from high school in '97 in a community right outside of Memphis, TN. There were school shootings triangle'd around: Pearl, Mississippi - (The 1st mass school shooting by a student in the USA - 1997) Paducah, Kentucky - (Heath High School, 1997) Jonesborough, Arkansas - (Westside Middle School - 1998 Then, on April 20, 1999 at 11:19 a.m., Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold committed an atrocious mass murder suicide right outside Littleton, Colorado, at the campus of Columbine High School. Murdering twelve students and one teacher/coach, the two boys then counted to three, jumped in the air, and turned the guns of themselves. By the year 1999, Columbine became the deadliest school shooting in history. If we are to find any silver lining: Several home made bombs planted around the school and in the parking lot failed to detonate, sparing the lives of what could have been hundreds more victims. ...