Caption: 18 year old Isaiah Shoels was one of the victims killed at Columbine High School Photographer: CRISSY PASCUAL Title: STAFF Credit: THE DENVER POST City: Littleton State: CO Country: USA Date: 19990421 Keyword: PUBDATE____1999_04_22 COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL MUG 
FILE – This undated file photo shows Columbine High School student Kyle Velasquez. Velasquez was killed in the shooting spree at the school in Littleton, Colo., on Tuesday, April 20, 1999. (AP Photo/HO) MUG 
FILE – John Tomlin, a 16-year-old Columbine High School sophomore whose family moved to Colorado from Waterford, Wis., was among 14 students–including the gunmen–and one teacher killed when two of his schoolmates went on a shooting and bombing rampage Tuesday, April 20, 1999, in Littleton, Colo. He is shown in this photo taken in 1997 while in Colorado. (AP Photo/Handout via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) 
DANIEL MAUSER — student — dead in massacre at Columbine High School MUG 
[DEPOOTER28-3] Caption: COPY PHOTOS OF Columbine victim Corey Depooter, Corey is being buried today 4/27/99 . Photo was taken of Cory Depooter in 1998 when he was a Junior at Columbine High School . Photographer: GLEN MARTIN Title: STAFF Credit: THE DENVER POST City: LITTLETON State: CO Country: USA Date: 19990427 ObjectName: DEPOOTER28-3 Keyword: PUBDATE____1999_04_27 MUG 
Things are not always what they seem, and that is what happened on that tragic day. On April 20,1999 a failed bombing and school shooting happened at Columbine High School. The perpetrators were Eric Harris and Dylan Kleboid. They murdered 12 innocent people that had a whole life ahead of them and injured more. We will focusing on the podcast Bearing Witness, that has a three part series that examines on the coverage taken from the massacre. American Tragedy is a documentary that focuses on Sue Kleboid- the mother of one of the perpetrators, while giving her story. Using devices, the media develops an agonizing emotion that’s behind the truth – it can happen anywhere.
| 5 Deadliest School Mass Shootings | |
|---|---|
| Rank | Event City/State Setting Date Killed Injured |
| 1 | Virginia Tech VA. University 4/16/07 32 17 |
| 2 | Sandy Hook Newton CT Elementary 12/14/12 27 2 |
| 3 | University of Texas Austin TX University 8/1/1966 17 31 |
| 4 | Columbine Littleton CO Secondary 4/20/1999 13 21 |
School shootings have become a problem throughout America, so much so that they been labeled as an epidemic. Looking at it through a global spectrum, when it comes to the fatalities, Columbine comes in after UT, Sandy Hook, and Virginia Tech. Despite the numbers, there’s a bigger issue that needs to be addressed.
Harris and Klebold had planned it for about a year. On April 20th, they showed up to school with duffel bags. Their initial plan was to leave several tank bombs- two in the cafeteria, a few in the perpetrators vehicles, and the other one in a park. They didn’t detonate and began to attack in the cafeteria and the library.
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