Columbine Shooting Fear

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Five Hours of Fear at Columbine High School

Five hours, that is how long it took for police to locate Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the shooters of Columbine High school. From 11:15am to 12:30pm Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were shooting at random throughout Columbine High school. The police arrived 20 minutes after the shooting started, but did not take action until around 12pm. The Columbine Shooting impacted America by going from a country that was once thought of as a safe place, to a country living in fear and worry. In the 1900’s, suicide rates increased more than any other year (History.com Staff). The homicide rates were low, but the suicide rates were high. The high rates could have been caused by the Great Depression. The Great …show more content…

Klebold and Harris attacked the choir room, auditorium, and the library ( Benson, Sonia). When they arrived in the library, they demanded that all the jocks in the room stand up, and they shot them all. “ All jocks stand up! We’re going to kill you all!”, said one of the gunman ( The Columbine Tragedy). Most jocks in the library were wearing a white baseball cap which symbolized they were on the baseball team. Aaron Cohn, a “jock”, was saved by one girl who held onto his back covering his baseball jersey logo. “ They were laughing as they shot, it was like they were having the time of their life”, recalled Cohn ( The Columbine Tragedy). After Isaiah Shoels, an african american kid, was shot, one of the shooters said “ Oh my God, look at this niggers brain, awesome man!” ( The Columbine Tragedy). When the police, swat team, and bomb team arrive on campus at about 12:00pm, the ambulance did too, and begin to transport students to the hospital. When the shooting finally stops, it’s around 12:30 pm and twelve students and one teacher have been killed. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris have killed themselves as well. The bodies of the shooters are not found until 4:30 that afternoon ( Benson, Sonia). It took responders an extra long time to rescue everyone in the school because they did not have a map of the …show more content…

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