04/20/99 - an account of the Columbine High School massace

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04/20/99 - is an account of the Columbine High School massacre.

On Tuesday 20th April, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, drove to school, planted two propane bombs and readied themselves for death and destruction. The bombs failed, so the pair walked into the school with firearms and pipe bombs and murdered twelve students and one teacher. 04/20/99 is a date of the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history, until the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.

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An excerpt:

 

Rachel Scott and her friend Richard Castaldo, both seventeen, were the first casualties. Scott was shot through the left temple and chest. Castaldo was hit five times in the left arm, chest, back and abdomen. He didn't know it but a bullet had smashed one of his vertebrae that would leave him permanently paralysed. Castaldo jerked as the bullets struck him, fell and played dead.

Seventeen-year-old Mark Taylor was shot through his thigh. ''Oh my God! Help me!'' he screamed before the rest of Harris's 9mm expended itself in his chest and back. Another bullet hit fifteen-year-old Michael Johnson in the leg, then another struck his jaw, but he managed to find cover. While Taylor lay bleeding, he claims he saw Scott attempt to get up but Harris's second shot struck her in the head.

''This is fucking awesome!'' Harris shouted gleefully.

He twitched the rifle towards a group of three students clambering up the dirt track leading to the steps, Daniel Rohrbough, Lance Kirklin and Sean Graves. The boys thought the black-clad pair were firing paint-ball guns in some sort of prank. A 9mm bullet shattered fifteen-year-old Daniel Rohrbough's left knee. As he stumbled, Harris fired two more shots: it hit Rohrbough in the chest and stomach. The bullet to his chest shattered his heart. Sixteen-year-old Kirklin tried to catch his falling friend only to be hit in the foot, leg and chest by more of the deadly fire from the same clip. Graves felt a hammer blow to his body. He had been shot three times in the abdomen and back and still managed to reach the cafeteria door before a round to his leg knocked him down. He couldn't feel his legs and seemed to think he had been shot by a tranquilizer gun.