Columbine High School Massacre

(redirected from 1999 Columbine High School shootings)

An event that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado, in which two heavily armed students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, attacked their schoolmates, killing 12 students and one teacher and injuring another 21 students. The pair then committed suicide

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The high point in parental concern of 55% came in a poll conducted April 21, the day after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.

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In a 23-page fax sent to ABC-TV, he claimed he was also retaliating for the June 17 murders of nine black members of a Charleston, S.C., church by a white racist, and said he had been inspired by the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech and the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.

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Only the April 1999 Columbine High School shootings saw a noticeable spike in concern over crime.

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