March - Randy and Judy Brown, parents of student Brooks Brown, file a report with the sheriff's office stating that Harris had threatened to kill Brooks and had written on the internet that he would like to kill people. April 20, - At approximately a. November 12, - Mark Manes is sentenced to six years in prison for selling a gun used in the murders to minors Harris and Klebold. April - Close to three dozen families of Columbine victims settle suits with the parents of the suspects and gun suppliers.
The Harris' and Klebold's homeowners insurance will pay a large part and the rest will come from insurance company payments on behalf of the gun suppliers. The family of victim Isaiah Shoels does not accept the settlement. August 12, - The families of victims Daniel Rohrbough, Kelly Fleming, Matt Kechter, Lauren Townsend, and Kyle Velasquez settle a wrongful death lawsuit against parents Susan and Thomas Klebold and Wayne and Katherine Harris, in which the victims' families claim that the suspects' parents should have known what their sons were up to before the shootings.
The terms of the settlement have not been released. Shortly after noon, the two teens turned their guns on themselves and died by suicide. The crime prompted a national debate on gun control and school safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what motivated the teen gunmen.
In the days immediately following the shootings, it was speculated that Klebold and Harris purposely chose jocks, minorities and Christians as their victims. It was initially reported that one student, Cassie Bernall, was allegedly asked by one of the gunmen if she believed in God. Her parents later wrote a book titled She Said Yes , honoring their martyred daughter. Apparently, however, the question was not actually posed to Bernall but to another student who had already been wounded by a gunshot.
Subsequent investigations also determined that Harris and Klebold chose their victims randomly. Violent video games and music were also blamed for influencing the killers. However, none of these theories was ever proven.
Columbine High School reopened in the fall of , but the massacre left a scar on the Littleton community. Mark Manes, the young man who sold a gun to Harris and bought him rounds of ammunition the day before the murders, was sentenced to six years in prison. Carla Hochhalter, the mother of a student who was paralyzed in the attack, killed herself at a gun shop.
Several other parents filed suit against the school and the police. And when a carpenter from Chicago erected 15 crosses in a local park on behalf of everyone who died on April 20, parents of the victims tore down the two in memory of Klebold and Harris.
The shootings at Columbine were among the worst school shootings in U. Subsequent school shootings, including in Newtown, Connecticut in December and in Parkland, Florida in February , continued to pain the nation. A March analysis by the Washington Post found that since the Columbine shootings in , there have been 10 school shootings each year on average in the United States. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
On April 20, , the U. Supreme Court unanimously declares busing for the purposes of desegregation to be constitutional. The decision in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education settled the constitutional question and allowed the widespread implementation of busing, The first New York state constitution is formally adopted by the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York, meeting in the upstate town of Kingston, on April 20, The constitution began by declaring the possibility of reconciliation between Britain and its Matthew Kechter, Daniel Mauser, Daniel Rohrbough, Rachel Scott, Isaiah Shoels, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend, Kyle Velasquez, About the Author:.
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