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History Of The Columbine Massacre

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At Columbine High School there had been a massacre on April 20, 1999. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the two shooters from the Columbine massacre. After that day there had been many rumors and myths about the shooting from the media and from people. After the shooting at Columbine there had been many rumors and myths from news reporters saying the shooters were only targeting jocks but really Eric and Dylan were just trying to kill of whoever they saw. Kids “knew” that Eric and Dylan were a part of the TCM because the news had said so. All of the rumors and myths all came from the news and from interviews of people. The killers were psychotic that just tried to kill whoever they saw. But myths was that they were targeting jocks. The public

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