The early morning of April 20, 1999 was filled with the wonderful smell of breakfast in the air, the everyday sound of school buses driving on their way to pick up children, and the sound of teenagers laughing together on their way to school. It was a normal, promising day in the small town of Littleton, Colorado. But in a few hours, that beautiful day suddenly became a horrible nightmare the world would not soon forget. At approximately 11:10 am, two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, arrived at the front doorsteps of Columbine High School. About two minutes later, Eric and Dylan walked into their school cafeteria where they had placed two duffle bags filled entirely with twenty pound bombs, simply waiting for the bombs to explode inside of their vehicles. Shortly after, Eric and Dylan began a horrific shooting spree in both the cafeteria and the library. By 11:35 am they managed to kill twelve students, an instructor, and wounded at least twenty other students. Shortly after …show more content…
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