High School Shooting Rampage
Times are approximate
(The Washington Post)
April 21, 1999 Page A10
11:30 a.m.: Two gunmen wearing black trench coats approached the 2,000-student Columbine High School from a nearby soccer field.
They opened fire and entered the school cafeteria. They moved throughout the school, shooting as they walked and setting off explosives.
Students hid in closets and barricaded themselves in rooms. Other fled the building, hiding in bushes or sprinting to a nearby park.
Noon: SWAT teams found several explosive
devices around the school.
Ambulances whisked away the first wounded
students who managed to escape.
12:30 p.m.: SWAT teams began a room-by-room sweep of the school.
2:30 p.m.: Students in hiding were freed by authorities.
In small groups, the students and teachers ran from the building to a holding area, where they were frisked, questioned and offered medical care.
4 p.m.: Officers searching the library found the bodies the gunmen, who reportedly had shot students in the room as they hid beneath desks.
4:30 p.m.: The school was declared safe.
6 p.m.: Explosives were found in cars in the school's southwest parking lot.
11:30 a.m.: Two gunmen wearing black trench coats approached the 2,000-student Columbine High School from a nearby soccer field.
They opened fire and entered the school cafeteria. They moved throughout the school, shooting as they walked and setting off explosives.
Students hid in closets and barricaded themselves in rooms. Other fled the building, hiding in bushes or sprinting to a nearby park.
Noon: SWAT teams found several explosive
devices around the school.
Ambulances whisked away the first wounded
students who managed to escape.
12:30 p.m.: SWAT teams began a room-by-room sweep of the school.
2:30 p.m.: Students in hiding were freed by authorities.
In small groups, the students and teachers ran from the building to a holding area, where they were frisked, questioned and offered medical care.
4 p.m.: Officers searching the library found the bodies the gunmen, who reportedly had shot students in the room as they hid beneath desks.
6 p.m.: Explosives were found in cars in the school's southwest parking lot.