Columbine High School massacre: Difference between revisions

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The pair kept videos that documented the explosives, ammunition, and weapons they had obtained illegally. They revealed the ways they hid their arsenals in their homes, as well as how they deceived their parents about their activities. The pair shot videos of doing target practice in nearby foothills, as well as areas of the high school they planned to attack. On April 20, approximately thirty minutes before the attack, they made a final video saying goodbye and apologizing to their friends and families.

=== Clothing and Gear ===

[[File:Columbine weaponry.jpg|thumb|252x252px|The weapons used in the massacre.]]

Eric wore black fatigue-style pants, a white T-shirt inscribed with the words "Natural Selection" on the front, black baseball cap with the words "KMFDM" on it worn backwards (not worn in the cafeteria CC-TV), and a black duster trenchcoat. He also wore a black fingerless glove on his right hand and black combat boots. Dylan wore similar clothes, but wore a black shirt with the words "WRATH" in red on it.

Both shooters wore utility belts which held pouches filled with shotgun shells and they carried CO2 bombs and clips of 9mm bullets in their pants. To make fuse lighting easier with their pipe bombs, both gunmen had match strikers taped to their forearms.

Eric's weapons included knives, explosives, a Savage 67H pump-action shotgun (sawn-off) and a Hi-Point 995 carbine. His rifle has often been misattributed to that of an M1 carbine, Ruger Mini-14, and Kel-Tec SUB-2000 (oddly used in the 2004 documentary, Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High). Dylan's weapons included a Stevens 311-D sawn-off shotgun and a TEC-DC9 semi-automatic handgun.

== The massacre ==

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At 12:08 p.m., Harris and Klebold turn the guns on themselves. Harris sat down with his back to a bookshelf and fired his shotgun through the roof of his mouth, killing him instantly. Just before shooting himself, Klebold lit a Molotov cocktail on a nearby table, underneath which Patrick Ireland was laying, which caused the tabletop to momentarily catch fire. Klebold then went down on his knees and shot himself in the left temple with his TEC-9.

== ~~Aftermath~~ ==

== Aftermat ==

=== Cassie Bernall's legacy ===

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 The pair kept videos that documented the explosives, ammunition, and weapons they had obtained illegally. They revealed the ways they hid their arsenals in their homes, as well as how they deceived their parents about their activities. The pair shot videos of doing target practice in nearby foothills, as well as areas of the high school they planned to attack. On April 20, approximately thirty minutes before the attack, they made a final video saying goodbye and apologizing to their friends and families.
+=== Clothing and Gear ===
+[[File:Columbine weaponry.jpg|thumb|252x252px|The weapons used in the massacre.]]
+Eric wore black fatigue-style pants, a white T-shirt inscribed with the words "Natural Selection" on the front, black baseball cap with the words "KMFDM" on it worn backwards (not worn in the cafeteria CC-TV), and a black duster trenchcoat. He also wore a black fingerless glove on his right hand and black combat boots. Dylan wore similar clothes, but wore a black shirt with the words "WRATH" in red on it.
+Both shooters wore utility belts which held pouches filled with shotgun shells and they carried CO2 bombs and clips of 9mm bullets in their pants. To make fuse lighting easier with their pipe bombs, both gunmen had match strikers taped to their forearms.
+Eric's weapons included knives, explosives, a Savage 67H pump-action shotgun (sawn-off) and a Hi-Point 995 carbine. His rifle has often been misattributed to that of an M1 carbine, Ruger Mini-14, and Kel-Tec SUB-2000 (oddly used in the 2004 documentary, Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High). Dylan's weapons included a Stevens 311-D sawn-off shotgun and a TEC-DC9 semi-automatic handgun.
 == The massacre ==
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 At 12:08 p.m., Harris and Klebold turn the guns on themselves. Harris sat down with his back to a bookshelf and fired his shotgun through the roof of his mouth, killing him instantly. Just before shooting himself, Klebold lit a Molotov cocktail on a nearby table, underneath which Patrick Ireland was laying, which caused the tabletop to momentarily catch fire. Klebold then went down on his knees and shot himself in the left temple with his TEC-9.
-== Aftermath ==
+== Aftermat ==
 === Cassie Bernall's legacy ===