Columbine Mine massacre Columbine Mine massacre The Columbine Mine massacre, sometimes called the Columbine massacre, occurred in 1927, in the town of Serene, Colorado. A fight broke out between Colorado state police and a group of striking coal miners, during which the unarmed miners were attacked with firearms. The miners testified that machine guns were fired at them, which the state police disputed. Six strikers were killed, and dozens were injured. The company town of Serene, Colorado, nestled on a rolling hillside, was the home of the Columbine mine. The strike was five weeks old and strikers had been conducting morning rallies at
Columbine High School massacre Scott claimed the discussion was with Bernall. When asked to indicate where the conversation had been coming from, he pointed to where Schnurr was shot. In August 1999, students returned to the school, and principal Frank Deangelis led a rally of students clad in "We are Columbine" shirts. Several former students and teachers suffer from PTSD. Six months after the shootings, Anne Marie Hochhalter's mother committed suicide. Greg Barnes, a student who witnessed Sanders get shot, committed suicide in May 2000. Though the attack was planned as a terrorist attack which would cause "the most deaths in US history", the