Short Story: Death At Columbine High School

Yesterday, two teenagers tragically marched into their suburban high school scattering pipe bombs and shooting at their fellow classmates. As many as 25 people students and possibly teachers were feared to be dead at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone. The gunman, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, were reportedly giggling while gruesomely murdering everyone in their sight. They were known to draw swastikas on their clothes and school books, and considered themselves part of the misfit clique, struck on Adolf Hitler's birthday, singling out minorities and "jocks" for death. Student William Beck said the gunmen "were out to get revenge on the school for being mistreated." Many of the murdered students bodies were found by the bomb-ringed bodies of the two 18 year old suspects who took their own lives. Other bodies were found in the cafeteria, the hallways and outside the school. At least 17 bombs, some connected to timers, some in duffel bags, others connected to 4-foot-tall propane tanks were found as well. Their arsenal included bombs wrapped in nails and BB pellets, with some near the bodies of victims. They remained where they lay last night, even as a prayer service was held for the dead, as police continued to comb the bloody hallways
They were led in groups to a window and door, and sent running across a parking lot to a nearby sheltered corner with their hands on their heads. SWAT team members screened each one to make sure a gunman didn't escape posing as a terrorized student. President Bill Clinton, who hosted a White House conference on school violence six months ago, said, "We have a responsibility to do everything we can to make sure this doesn't make 1999 another year like last year, that we don't have another rash of