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Harris and Klebold Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, who carried out a mass shooting on April 20, 1999, killing 12 students and one teacher and wounding more than 20 others before taking their own lives in the school library. The attack was the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at the time and prompted widespread national debate about school safety, bullying, mental health, and access to firearms. Subsequent investigations found that the perpetrators had engaged in months of planning and had prepared explosives intended to cause far greater casualties.
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Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were American high school seniors and a mass murderer duo who perpetrated the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, in Columbine, Colorado. Harris and Klebold killed 13 students and one teacher and wounded 23 others. After killing most of their victims in the school library, the two died by suicide. At the time, the attack was the deadliest high school shooting in United States history. The ensuing media frenzy and moral panic turned "Columbine" into a byword for school shootings, and the event into one of the most infamous mass shootings.
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This profile section is complemented from Wikipedia for Harris and Klebold. American mass murderers (1981–1999)
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