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	Columbine Shooting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Columbine High School is one of three in the unincorporated southeast portion of Jefferson County.
		However, the Columbine tragedy occurred on April 20, perhaps due to unfinished preparations on the part of the killers.
		It is also critical to note that when many of the Columbine students heard what sounded like pop guns coming from outside the cafeteria during the first lunch period, they thought that senior prank day had come.
	www.knowgangs.com /school_resources/menu_002.htm (754 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Dissecting Columbine's Cult of the Athlete
		Columbine High School is a culture where initiation rituals meant upperclass wrestlers twisted the nipples of freshman wrestlers until they turned purple and tennis players sent hard volleys to younger teammates' backsides.
		Columbine may be no different from thousands of high schools in glorifying athletes.
		Increasingly, as parents and students replay images of life at Columbine, they are freeze-framing on injustices suffered at the hands of athletes, wondering aloud why almost no one -- not teachers, not administrators, not coaches, not most students, not parents -- took the problem seriously.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/daily/june99/columbine12.htm (2371 words)

	Columbine Shooting 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In a situation such as the one faced at Columbine, it is critical to the safety of the public at large that the gunmen not escape.
		The number of law enforcement officers on scene within minutes of the reported shootings plus the entry of SWAT inside the school minutes before their suicides denied the gunmen additional time to plan further actions or take other lives or hostages.
		As it turned out, there was an innocent person on the roof of Columbine High School but, at the time, the proper assumption was that he or she was a suspect/sniper.
	www.knowgangs.com /school_resources/menu_007.htm (2389 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: Columbine
		A long-anticipated study of the factors that contributed to the Columbine High tragedy is on hold - and most likely won't be resurrected - because the parents of the two killers won't participate.
		Tom Mauser, whose son, Daniel, was killed at Columbine High School, joined gun industry opponents on Capitol Hill Tuesday to denounce a bill to protect gun manufacturers and sellers from certain lawsuits.
		The family of Columbine victim Dan Rohrbough is seeking permission to question the parents of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold under oath as part of a lawsuit against a former sheriff's deputy who claimed he saw the boy murdered on a sidewalk near the school.
	www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/columbine (419 words)

	Columbine School Shooting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The day after the shooting many of the shunned cliques came to school wearing trench coats pertaining to the group at CHS known as the "Trench Coat Mafia." It was almost as though they were mocking both Eric and Dylan.
		According to Courtney Yocks, a sophomore at MCHS, "I remember the day after the shooting the principal came over the intercom asking for a moment of silence for those who were murdered and their families.
		The Columbine shooting forced society to realize that school is no longer a place of security.
	campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/carol.osborne/eng101/CNic.html (876 words)

	Jackson Meets With Ill. School Head (washingtonpost.com)
		Columbine High officials, held the first media tour of the Littleton, Colo., school since the killings there, facing a delicate or, some say, impossible balancing act in remaking the physical plant to be a sanctuary of learning -- and not a shrine to trauma.
		In the aftermath of the April 20 shooting spree that left 15 dead and 23 injured at Columbine High School here, millions of dollars have flowed into more than 40 funds advertised as ways to help victims and their families, many with little public oversight or accountability.
		The sheriff's deputy assigned to Columbine High School was warned a year before last week's shootings that Eric Harris had "made and detonated pipe bombs" and had threatened to carry out mass killings, according to police documents and law enforcement officials.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/juvmurders/keystories.htm (1324 words)

	Columbine Shooting 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Based on comments Klebold and Harris made in their homemade videotapes, the investigation determined the two planned to shoot any surviving students able to escape from the cafeteria after the bombs exploded.
		From their position at the top of the steps they begin shooting at students in the area.
		From the tape, the investigation shows that Harris and Klebold spend almost three minutes in the library hallway randomly shooting their weapons and lighting and throwing pipe bombs.
	www.knowgangs.com /school_resources/menu_003.htm (2713 words)

	MSN Encarta - Michael Moore
		Bowling for Columbine (2002), his next film project, examined the culture of guns and violence in the United States.
		The title refers to the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which two heavily armed students killed 13 people and themselves.
		Bowling for Columbine was a sensation, earning more than $21 million at the box office.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701693990/Moore_Michael.html (680 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - Are U.S. Schools Safe?
		It was one of the bloodiest episodes in U.S. history, and one of a dozen shootings in schools from Bethel, Alaska, to Conyers, Georgia, during an 18-month period.
		The shootings aroused concerns about school safety and gun control, fears that were still very real for many Americans a year later.
		Just days before the one-year anniversary of the Columbine shooting, a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll found that 70 percent of Americans believed such a shooting could occur at a school in their own community.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1998/schools (372 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Aftermath -- April 22, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		JEFFREY KAYE: As students in Littleton, Colorado gathered for the third day outside Columbine High school, this time in a spring snowstorm, the Sheriff's Department announced investigators had found two more bombs inside the school; they were attached to 20-pound propane tanks, and bring to about 31 the number of explosive devices discovered since Tuesday.
		JEFFREY KAYE: On the heels of the shooting, the National Rifle Association scaled back plans for its upcoming Denver convention, but Denver Mayor Wellington Webb asked the NRA to cancel its convention entirely.
		Columbine High School, which was badly damaged by the explosives, is closed indefinitely.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/education/jan-june99/aftermath_4-22.html (807 words)

	Salon News \| Inside the Columbine High investigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As investigators get closer to producing an official report about the Columbine High School massacre, it is already clear that much of what was reported last spring about the motives and methods of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was untrue.
		Multiple sources close to the Columbine investigation have disclosed key findings to Salon News, including a glimpse into Harris' infamous "diary." Lead investigator Kate Battan broke five months of virtual silence with her public comments.
		Investigators now know conclusively that the attack Harris and Klebold launched April 20 was planned as a suicide mission, driven by indiscriminate hate, and intended to wipe out most of their suburban school.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/09/23/columbine/index.html (765 words)

	Columbine shootings - AskTheBrain.com
		Yet, as in the Columbine shootings, I find myself looking at the reactions of teens and their families in times of great tragedy.
		In the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School, the WB temporarily shelved this controversial episode about school violence.
		A year after the Columbine shootings, school officials across the United States are seeking ways to anticipate and prevent student violence.
	www.askthebrain.com /columbine_shooting-.html (325 words)

	ABC News: Roses Honor Victims of Columbine Shooting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		No formal observances were planned in the memory of the 12 students and one teacher who were gunned down in 1999 by students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at the suburban Denver high school.
		Columbine teachers gathered at the school Wednesday for a quiet remembrance.
		Of the roughly 140 teachers and staff who taught at Columbine at the time of the shootings, about 30 remain.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=689117 (332 words)

	Salon News \| After Columbine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A "suicidal" senior was arrested after vowing to "finish the job" on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the massacre.
		As many as 16 people are dead in a shooting at an affluent high school, with several other in serious or critical condition.
		Meaner than the mean kids who go on shooting sprees are the measures adults are pursuing in the name of combating crime -- including proposed legislation to execute preteens.
	www.salon.com /news/special/littleton (1222 words)

	Columbine shooting
		The driver charged with murder was quoted by police as remorselessly seeking to “execute innocent” children because of a former girlfriend's rejection.
		While student shootings remain rare, rage killings by middle-agers, a group criminologists insist has mellowed out of its violent years, are epidemic.
		Littleton's and other school shootings are not part of a larger trend toward more student and school violence, but tragic aberrations.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~mmales/columbin.html (996 words)

	Columbine shooting shadows election [Free Republic]
		As the second most visible law-enforcement figure in the shooting's aftermath, he's inextricably linked to the much-maligned sheriff's department in the minds of some Columbine families.
		Thomas' two older children are graduates of Columbine —his daughter, Carrie, played on a volleyball team coached by Dawn Anna, the mother of shooting victim Lauren Townsend.
		Thomas says that the shooting is one of the reasons he decided to run again.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3931f92d7c3b.htm (1481 words)

	Poynter Online - Columbine Shooting Anniversary is a Balancing Act
		That sentiment is not isolated and reflects a "chasm between Columbine victims and the rest of the community," says Patti Dennis, KUSA-TV's vice president of news.
		Columbine coverage is "one of the most difficult wrestling matches we've had in quite some time.
		Ryan says Columbine anniversary coverage is counterintuitive to the normal competitive instincts of local television news.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=3614 (479 words)

	Columbine shooting victim sues Solvay Pharma - Insight
		AHRP is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such endeavors.
		She says Luvox caused Harris to go on the Columbine shooting spree and thinks the medical history of children who commit violent acts in school should be made public.
		As part of the Columbine lawsuit, Taylor claims that Solvay failed to warn adequately of the risks and adverse reactions associated with Luvox, and Marks provides a preliminary expert opinion to the court stating that Solvay "acted in an unreasonable manner" by failing to provide adequate warnings of the adverse reactions to the drug.
	www.ahrp.org /infomail/0902/03.php (2586 words)

	Arrest in Columbine shooting
		LITTLETON —; Wearing brave smiles through occasional tears, Columbine High students and teachers returned to classes Monday as police arrested the first suspect associated with the massacre at their school, a 22-year-old Littleton man who is accused of supplying the Columbine teen killers with a TEC-9 semiautomatic handgun.
		Many prayed for their childrens' safety and courage, as the teens prepared to gather in the afternoon and confront the memories of what had happened when they last were together.
		He is one of the few African-Americans at Columbine and was a friend of Shoels, who was killed while the teen gunmen mocked him and called him a racial epithet.
	web.dailycamera.com /shooting/04acolu.html (1311 words)

	PlanetPapers - Columbine Shooting: Killer Kids
		As realistic as video games are, they still lack certain aspects of real life; the difference between shooting a video game character and shooting a real living, breathing human being is it is easy to shoot an object you do not even perceive as alive.
		He was shooting with deadly accuracy and he had never even held a real gun before in his life.
		Incidents like the Columbine school shooting, the worst school shooting in the history of the United States, are proof of the influence of heavy violence in today's games.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2153.php (1070 words)

	USATODAY.com - Five years after Columbine ripples of heartbreak, hope for survivors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The attack at Columbine remains the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
		Harris and Klebold killed a teacher and 12 of their classmates — two outside of the suburban Denver school and 10 more huddled under tables and chairs in the library — then killed themselves on April 20, 1999.
		Graves is taking computer classes at a community college, and said his only disappointment since the shooting was lagging in his credits.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-04-18-columbine-anniversary_x.htm (963 words)

	Welcome
		This site is dedicated to the funding and completion of a permanent memorial to both honor and remember the victims of the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School.
		The information contained in this Web site is designed to inform the Columbine community of the details of the planned memorial, to describe where and how to contribute to the project, and to provide periodic updates on project progress.
		Shortly after the tragic events at Columbine, a group of students, faculty, parents and community leaders organized a committee to plan and raise funds for a permanent memorial to the Columbine shooting victims.
	www.columbinememorial.org (239 words)

	Jackson Meets With Ill. School Head (washingtonpost.com)
		Classes were canceled and final exams delayed at Columbine High School after a student received a threat in an Internet chat room.
		Visiting this traumatized community one month after the shootings and only a few hours after another shooting incident at a Georgia high school — President Clinton told Columbine students they have an unparalleled opportunity to help steer their country away from violence.
		Investigators probing the rampage at Columbine High School are focusing on the gunmen's circle of friends — searching two of their homes, unraveling a Web site's cryptic writings and questioning witnesses about possible accomplices.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/juvmurders/keystories.htm (1324 words)

	CNN.com - Report clears policeman in Columbine shooting - April 17, 2002
		Rohrbough was killed by Columbine gunman Eric Harris, an independent probe concluded.
		The parents of 15-year-old Daniel Rohrbough had argued that their son was killed by a SWAT team member sent to the high school during the rampage.
		The report, conducted by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, also concluded that one of the bullets retrieved from Rohrbough's body was a "textbook match" to Columbine killer Eric Harris's gun.
	cnn.com /2002/US/04/17/columbine.report/index.html (464 words)

	Columbine Research Task Force (CRTF)
		Jefferson County officials claim they have already released all the information they have and there is nothing more to say on the case, despite the fact that much of the information released contradicts their own claims.
		Leaked crime scene photos are causing a stir, as the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office scrambles to plug the holes of a Columbine case riddled with controversy that, to their chagrin, won't go away.
		See "Columbine motion accuses cop of killing" from The Denver Post on December 27, 2001 for up-to-date information on the Rohrbough claim that a law enforcement officer killed an innocent student.
	www.raven1.net /columbin.htm (698 words)

	Man who sold gun went shooting with Columbine killers
		Mark Manes, 22, admitted selling the semiautomatic TEC DC-9 to one of the teenagers but did not know it would be used in the April 20 attack that left 15 dead, including the gunmen, said attorney Robert Ransome.
		Manes, a computer programmer and former Columbine student, was booked on suspicion of providing a handgun to a minor, punishable by up to six years in prison.
		As Columbine students attended classes a second day at Chatfield Senior High School, workers began dismantling a huge makeshift memorial of flowers, stuffed animals, balloons, cards and letters honoring the shooting victims.
	www.jsonline.com /news/may99/0505colo.asp (355 words)

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