Eric Harris
Name: Eric David Harris
DOB: April 9th, 1981, 9:37pm
POB: Plattsburgh, NY
DOD: April 20th, 1999
POB: Littleton, CO
Dylan Klebold
Name: Dylan Bennett Klebold
DOB: Sept 11th, 1981, 9:11am
POB: Denver, CO
DOD: April 20th, 1999
POD: Littleton, CO
The Facts
On April 20, 1999, Littleton, Colorado, two youths opened fire at Columbine School with a semiautomatic rifle, two sawed-off shotguns, a handgun and dozen of homemade bombs. The two boys, aged 17 and 18, killed 13 people and wounded that many before killing themselves. People on the spot report that the first shot was at 11:18 AM MDT.
How had these boys charmed their way through the legal system and not come to the attention of school authorities or classmates? Neo-Nazis, they had been planning the massacre for a year to coincide with Hitler's birthday, accumulating enough fire-power to start a small revolution. They were convicted of a felony in January 1998 after breaking and entering, a theft. Last February they completed a community service program. Both boys were noted as bright and capable. In spite of an avowed hatred for sports jocks and blacks, once begun, their killings were blindly indiscriminate. The school of some 2,000 kids was in chaos as the realization swept through that the gunfire and exploding bombs were real. Students fled for cover as bodies fell, blood spattering. Within 20 minutes the swat team was on hand - but too late for the young people who lay dead and wounded.
Trivia
Some people believe Eric killed Dylan, and then killed himself, instead of the two boys both committing suicide.
Rapper Eminem refers to the massacre in some of his songs.
Who Knew: "How many retards will listen to me
And run in the school shootin' when they're pissed at the teach-
-er, her, or him, is it you? Is it him?"
The Way I Am: "When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up your school
and they blame it on Marilyn ... and the heroin
where were the parents at? And look at where it's at...
Middle America
now it's a tragedy
now it's so sad to see
an upper-class city
having this happenin'."
Im Back: "I take seven kids from Columbine, stand 'em all in line
Add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine
a Mack-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine
and that's a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time"