![]() ![]() "They were shouting profanities, mocking students, like they were in a movie or something," recalls Craig. Then Harris and Klebold burst into the library, wielding a 9mm semi-automatic carbine, two sawn-off shotguns and a handgun. He hunkered down underneath the desk with his two friends, Matthew and Isaiah, one of the school's few black students. It was only when a female teacher ran into the library, screaming at everyone to hide under the tables, that Craig began to get scared. Those who survived would never be quite the same again.īut, at first, it just sounded like firecrackers. Those searching for an answer would variously blame lax gun controls, violent video games and, in the case of one local evangelical minister, Satan himself. In the years that followed, Columbine would become a shorthand for school massacre. They killed 12 students and a teacher before turning the guns on themselves. In the ensuing 45 minutes, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, would stalk the corridors of their school, shooting down classmates, lobbing home-made pipe bombs through doorways and wreaking their own particular brand of indiscriminate carnage with an arsenal of semi-automatic weaponry. ![]() ![]() It was just after 11.20am on 20 April 1999 at Columbine high school, Colorado, and Craig Scott was about to become part of the deadliest high school shooting in American history. ![]()
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