Columbine High School massacre Columbine High School massacre The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County (Jeffco), Colorado, United States, near Littleton in the Denver metropolitan area. The perpetrators, twelfth grade (senior) students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. Ten students were murdered in the library, where the pair subsequently committed suicide. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting ever. The crime has inspired several copycats, and "Columbine" has become a euphemism for a school shooting. They injured
Columbine High School massacre public rituals of humiliation." One author argues Columbine was only increasingly linked to terrorism after the September 11 attacks. On the Basement Tapes, Harris claimed they would "kick-start a revolution". Klebold wore a Soviet Union pin on his boots during the massacre. The attack occurred on April 20, Adolf Hitler's birthday, which led to speculation in the media that the attack was political. Some people, such as Robyn Anderson, stated that the pair were not obsessed with Nazism nor did they worship or admire Hitler in any way. Anderson stated, in retrospect, that there were many things the pair did