Columbine Pictures: A Timeline of the Tragedy Revealed

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The Rocky Mountain News photography staff received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography “for its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.” The 20 award-winning images in this gallery are presented in the order submitted to the prize committee. The facts about the Columbine High School shooting of April 20,1999 from the oldest Columbine archive. Information and photos of shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the victims and survivors, the library, aftermath, news, basement tapes videos, and more. On April 20 , 1999, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., went on a shooting spree, killing 12 students and one teacher before taking their own lives. From the beginning of the investigation into the shootings at Columbine High School, a timeline was established to record the significant events of April 20 , 1999 . The timeline was updated. In this March 14, 2018, file photograph, 15-year-old Leah Zundel waves a placard during a student walkout to protest gun violence on the soccer field behind Columbine High School in Littleton. On April 20, 1999, two students, cloaked in black trench coats and armed with guns and pipe bombs, opened fire at Columbine High School, killing 15 people, including themselves, and wounding 28. Twenty years after the Columbine High School shooting made practicing for armed intruders as routine as fire drills, many parents have only tepid confidence in the ability of schools to stop a gunman, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. A short summary of the events of the Columbine shooting, annotated by timestamp. See sitemap for a fully detailed timeline . The Columbine High School massacre occurred on April 20, 1999 between 11:14 AM and 12:10PM. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and one teacher and injured 20 students and one teacher.