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Columbine High School
Massacre
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
On April 20, 1999, at 11:30 AM, students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, approached the Columbine High School cafeteria, in Littleton, Colorado. They were armed with a semi automatic rifle, a hand gun, two sawed-off shot guns, and 30-plus explosive devices. Immediately, they started shooting and throwing the homemade bombs. This continues for nearly an hour.
There was no logical explanation for the seventeen- and eighteen-year-old "average teenagers," who were considered intelligent, well mannered, and who came from stable, two parent, middle income families, to have committed such a massacre. There were no drugs or alcohol found in the bodies of the boys when autopsied.
The only explanation seemed to be that they had been picked on and bullied at school, and excluded by their own families, and, they wanted revenge.
Harris and Klebold had been linked to a group of "misfit" kids called "The Trench Coat Mafia." However, group members said they had only been on the fringe of the group.
In a series of five video tapes Harris and Klebold stated that they had wanted "to kill 250," and "kick start a revolution." The "revolution" was to apparently inspire a cult following of teenage outcasts at schools across the country. Whatever the motivation, the results were the same.
When it was over, Harris and Klebold had killed twelve students, one teacher and wounded thirteen others, before killing themselves.
Eric Harris Handwriting
Dylan Klebold Handwriting
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