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Dylan Klebold And Harris Columbine Shooting

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Columbine. When I first heard the word, I didn’t think that much of it because I had no idea what it meant or how it affected so many people. It took one class period to learn that it was a high school, a crime scene, and an event that devastated the small town of Littleton, Colorado. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Sounded like two normal boys’ names and when I found out their involvements at the school I thought they were kind, involved, and popular. But these two boys went to their own high school with a plan for a bombing, when that bombing failed they turned to an unplanned shooting that killed twelve students, one teacher and injured twenty people. April 20th. Seems like a normal sunny day in April. But in 1999 on this day, the events of Columbine happened. A day that everyone in Littleton will always remember. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the depressive and the psychopath, were the ones behind the massacre that happened on April 20th.
Dylan Klebold was a very depressive young man. He was born on September 11, 1981, and …show more content…

He was born on April 9, 1981, and was 18 years old when he and his friend did Columbine. He met his soon to be accomplice, Dylan Harris in 8th grade. Eric wanted to join the Marines and he took the steps to apply, the application was rejected shortly before the shooting. For he was taking the drug Luvox®, an SSRI antidepressant that he was taking because of his anger management therapy. Eric was on many websites where he would post rants or graphic content. In 1997 Wayne Harris, Eric’s father, started logging all of his son’s problems. The bombing was planned for April 19th, to coincide with the Oklahoma bombing, but for some reason, they were set back to the 20th. Many people said that he was a ‘normal guy’ and nobody saw this coming. Eric Harris died in the library next to his friend, Dylan Klebold, by placing the barrel of his sawed-off shotgun in his mouth and pulling the

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