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Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (/ ˈkliːboʊld / KLEE-bohld; September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were two American high school seniors and mass murderers who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, in Columbine, Colorado.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold spoke about their parents in the infamous "basement tapes." In 2015, Colorado law enforcement officials destroyed what came to be known as the "basement tapes," reported the Arkansas Democrat Gazette .
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had endgame in mind. Ms. DeBoer, who knew the pair in passing, had talked to them Friday. True, they liked to bluster about guns and vengeance and Adolf Hitler.
On April 20, 1999, Columbine shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris murdered 12 of their high school classmates and one teacher before killing themselves. Hitler's birthday (an accident), the Trenchcoat Mafia, revenge against bullies, and video games had nothing to do with it.
By approximately 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded more than 20 other people. Shortly after 12 p.m., the two teens turned their guns on themselves.
Klebold would learn later that day that Dylan was dead, but it was the beginning of a long quest to go back over her life with a magnifying glass, looking for her son’s descent and what she...
As of 2024, Columbine is still the deadliest school shooting in Colorado and one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States. Harris and Klebold, who planned for at least a year and hoped to have a large number of victims, intended for the attack to primarily be a bombing and only secondarily a shooting.