Since 1999, the name of a Colorado high school has been tragically enshrined in the public consciousness – and has become synonymous with mass shootings. But those left reeling by the massacre at Columbine have watched in horror as mass shootings are replicated over and over again across the US, writes Sheila Flynn
Students at Columbine High School in 1999 are now parents of students themselves. CPR's Nathaniel Minor reported in 2019 how that experience is shaping the way they relate to their kids today.
Twenty-five years ago on April 20, 1999, one teacher and 12 students were shot and killed by two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Another 21 members of the Columbine school community were injured in this shooting and countless lives devastated. That kind of mass violence — and in a school no less — was unthinkable at the time. Yet the past quarter-century has tragically and frustratingly shown that we have failed to keep schoolchildren safe. The communities of Newtown, Conn.,...
This week marks 25 years since two seniors at the Colorado high school
Sean Graves has overcome a lot of challenges in the past 25 years. Graves was applauded as he walked across the stage for graduation from Columbine High School, years after he was shot six times in the shooting that left 12 students and a teacher dead. "I was actually shot six times on April 20. I was paralyzed from the waist down, that was number six, the last one that got me," said Graves. Graves has undergone 49 surgeries and is walking again, but he believes the biggest challenges are ahead...
The trauma of the massacre at Columbine High School still haunts survivors, witnesses nationwide and students who weren’t alive when it happened.
The district asked people to stay away from the middle school on Wednesday. No injuries inside the school were reported as police remains at the school
The disgraced former school cop who was on the run after shooting dead his ex-wife and 17-year-old girlfriend before kidnapping his son was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
In honor of the victims of Columbine on the occasion of 25 years since the tragedy, these are the inscriptions on each plaque provided by the Columbine Memorial Foundation. This is Dave Sanders’ tribute.
An active shooter was reported outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday,
April 20 has been declared by Gov. Jared Polis a Day of Service in
The New Orleans Police Department announced Thursday, April 25 that an arrest was made in a fatal Algiers shooting.