September 11, 1981 - Dylan Klebold
One of two perpetrators of what became a defining event in American school safety and culture, Klebold acted alongside Eric Harris in a coordinated attack that left thirteen students and one teacher dead at Columbine High School in 1999. The massacre prompted sweeping changes in law enforcement response protocols, school security practices, and national conversations about youth violence. Subsequent investigations complicated early narratives about the pair's social isolation, revealing lives more ordinary in many respects than the initial coverage suggested.
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Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold ( KLEE-bohld; September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were an American mass murderer duo who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre, where they killed 13 students and 1 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.
Harris and Klebold met while attending middle school and gradually became close. By their junior year of high school, they were described as best friends who were dependent on one another. Early reports characterized them as unpopular and frequent targets of bullying; however, many peers later stated that the two were not near the bottom of the school's social hierarchy, as both had numerous friends and active social lives. Columbine High School was alleged to have an intense "jock culture", in which popular students—primarily athletes—received preferential treatment from faculty and peers.
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