2 Students Gun Down 13.LITTLETON, Colo., April 20--in the deadliest school massacre in the nation's history, two young men stormed into a suburban high school here at lunchtime today with guns and explosives, killing 13 students and teachers and seriously wounding 16 others in a five-hour siege. The two students believed to have been the gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were the high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre. They killed 13 people and injured 24 others. , were found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the library of Columbine High School Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton city limits and half a mile south of the Denver city/county line. , the Jefferson County Jefferson County is the name of 25 counties and one parish in the United States. The following are named for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States:
The mass shooting mass shooting Public health Multiple discharging of firearm(s) onto a group of unarmed victims. Cf Genocide, Serial killing. was the first at an American school during this academic year, but revived memories of similar tragedies that struck six different communities last year and set off national alarms about teenage violence. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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