Colombine Shooting
It was a normal day at Columbine High School. Students came for another day of learning. But two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, it was a different story. The rampage started at 11:21am, with black trench coats and masks covering their face. Shooting guns first in the cafeteria to anyone whom was an athlete or a different race or color. Then going to the hallways screaming racial slurs and planting homemade bombs to explode even after the shooting was over. Students ran outside for their lives to when the SWAT team came four hours after the 911 call from the school. Students were escaping through windows to be safe from the bullets firing through the school. The two gunmen were asking anyone if they were "jokes" to stand up and to be shot right in the head. Other students ran into room, filling the classroom up to escape. Students with there cell phones calling their parents and police. The shots stopped firing when Eric and Dylan rushed into the library killing several people and also killing them, which ended the shooting at 3:30(Internet 1). After the shooting, police ran in and searched the whole school. Finding bombs that exploded everywhere. They saw students sh
My opinion about this subject is really strong. That's why I choosed this subject. I don't get to say much because I can't express it or can't put it in words. It's sad that the two teenagers planned that day out for two years. Having a web-site with all of their plans and satanic messages. And also having the police telling the parents to watch their children, maybe the shooting wouldn't have happened. The parents had a chance to stop their children or even change their ways and maybe the day would have been a normal day at Columbine High School. The Tragedy at Columbine High School: Website http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/coroner/columbin.html Almone, Tustin. "Where to Place the Blame." Inside Denver.com: Internet 20 April 1999. Parents outside waiting for their children to come and comfort them. But the police told them to go home and find their children's dental records or anything to identify the bodies. Some parents sobbed and some threw up after they heard that information from the police. "It made my heart stop" a mother said while she was at a local gym with many other families (Internet 2). At the end of the day the SWAT team made the school secured with just one bomb exploding in the cafeteria by the kitchen, luckily no one was injured. Thirteen people died that day with almost twenty getting injured. One victim was a teacher named David Sanders, a teacher and a coach at the high school. He saved many students lives by moving students into a closed classroom. But one of the gunmen saw him a shot him. He bleeds to death because the SWAT team didn't come in time to safe him. ()
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