Columbine High School massacre | |
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![]() Eric Harris (left) an Dylan Klebold (richt) catcht on the heich schuil's siccarity cameras in the cafeteria, 11 meenits afore thair suicides | |
Location | Columbine, Colorado,[1] U.S. |
Coordinates | 39°36′12″N 105°04′29″W / 39.60333°N 105.07472°WCoordinates: 39°36′12″N 105°04′29″W / 39.60333°N 105.07472°W |
Date | Apryle 20, 1999 11:19 a.m. – 12:08 p.m. (UTC-6) |
Target | Students an faculty at Columbine High School |
Attack teep | Schuil shuitin, mass murther, murder–suicide, arson, attempted bombin |
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Daiths | 15 (includin baith perpetrators) |
Non-fatal injures | 24 (21 bi gunfire) |
Perpetrators | Eric Harris an Dylan Klebold |
Defenders | William David Sanders Aaron Hancey[2] |
The Columbine High School massacre wis a schuil shuitin that occurred on Apryle 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine,[3][4] an unincorporated aurie o Jefferson Coonty in the American state o Colorado. In addeetion tae the shuitins, the complex an heichly planned attack involved a fire bomb tae divert firefechters, propane tanks convertit tae bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, an carbombs. The perpetrators, senior students Eric Harris an Dylan Klebold, murthert 12 students an ane teacher. Thay injured 21 addeetional fowk, an three mair war injured while attemptin tae escape the schuil. The pair subsequently committit suicide.[5][6]