Here is a few background details about the deaths of 13 folks at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999.
Twelve college students and one instructor have been killed by college students Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, within the preliminary assault.
The pair made dwelling movies previous to the assault making references to what they have been going to do and apologizing to their mother and father for it.
Harris and Klebold killed themselves with gunshot wounds to the pinnacle within the college’s library at roughly 12:08 p.m. on the day of the shootings.
SWAT groups entered the college 47 minutes after the shootings began. Five hours handed earlier than regulation enforcement declared the college beneath management.
Cassie Bernall, 17
Steven Curnow, 14
Corey DePooter, 17
Kelly Fleming, 16
Matthew Kechter, 16
Daniel Mauser, 15
Daniel Rohrbough, 15
William “Dave” Sanders, 47
Rachel Scott, 17
Isaiah Shoels, 18
John Tomlin, 16
Lauren Townsend, 18
Kyle Velasquez, 16
Anne Marie Hochhalter, 43 (was partially paralyzed within the capturing. Hochhalter died February 16, 2025, of sepsis and issues from her paralysis. Her death has been ruled a homicide in accordance with an post-mortem report obtained from the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on March 13, 2025)
January 1998 – Klebold and Harris are arrested after stealing objects from a van. After pleading responsible, they’re despatched to a juvenile diversion program.
March 1998 – Randy and Judy Brown, mother and father of pupil Brooks Brown, file a report with the sheriff’s workplace stating that Harris had threatened to kill Brooks and had written on the internet that he would like to kill people.
April 20, 1999 – At roughly 11:19 a.m., two college students, Klebold, 17, and Harris, 18, carrying weapons and bombs, open hearth inside Columbine High School, killing 13 and wounding 23 others earlier than killing themselves.
November 12, 1999 – Mark Manes is sentenced to 6 years in jail for promoting a gun used within the murders to minors Harris and Klebold.
April 2001 – Close to three dozen families of Columbine victims settle suits with the parents of the suspects and gun suppliers. The settlement totals near $2.5 million. The Harris’ and Klebold’s owners insurance coverage pays a big half and the remainder will come from insurance coverage firm funds on behalf of the gun suppliers. The household of sufferer Isaiah Shoels doesn’t settle for the settlement.
August 20, 2002 – The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office settles with the daughter of instructor Dave Sanders for $1.5 million.
June 2003 – Judge Robert Blackburn orders the household of Shoels to just accept a $366,000 settlement within the lawsuit towards the gunmen’s households.
August 12, 2003 – The households of victims Daniel Rohrbough, Kelly Fleming, Matt Kechter, Lauren Townsend, and Kyle Velasquez settle a wrongful dying lawsuit towards mother and father Susan and Thomas Klebold and Wayne and Katherine Harris, by which the victims’ households declare that the suspects’ mother and father ought to have recognized what their sons have been as much as earlier than the shootings. The phrases of the settlement haven’t been launched.
October 22, 2003 – Home video of the two suspects is released by authorities. In the video, made six weeks earlier than the murders, the suspects are seen in a forested space capturing at bowling pins.
February 26, 2004 – Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar releases an investigative report about the attack. Authorities additionally launch 1000’s of pages of paperwork and bodily proof.
September 21, 2007 – The Columbine Memorial, adjoining to Columbine High School, is devoted and opened to the general public.
February 12, 2016 – In her first tv interview, Susan Klebold speaks to Diane Sawyer. Klebold states that “If I had recognized that Dylan was experiencing some real mental distress, he would not have been there,” she says. “He would’ve gotten help. I don’t ever, for a moment, mean to imply that I’m not conscious of the fact that he was a killer, because I am.”