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Guests arrive at the joint funeral service for Irma Garcia and her husband, Joe Garcia, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday. Schoolteacher Irma Garcia died in the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, and her husband died two days l

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The tragic history of police responding too late to active shooters

5:00am June 06, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

In similar tragedies over the years, police encountered similar problems during the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

In this April 20, 1999, file photo, women head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo.

Survivors of Parkland and Columbine shootings share their outrage over Uvalde tragedy

2:48pm May 25, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Both survivors share their criticism of how, even years after shootings at their schools, no changes have been made to address mass gun violence in America.

At StoryCorps in Littleton, Colo., last month, siblings Lauren Cartaya and Zach Cartaya said they continue to cope with the trauma of the 1999 Columbine shooting.

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20 Years Later, Sibling Columbine Survivors Reflect

9:52am April 19, 2019

Lauren Cartaya and her older brother, Zach, were at Columbine High School in 1999 when two students opened fire. At StoryCorps, they remember that day and discuss the effect it has had on their lives.

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A student leaves Columbine High School late Tuesday in Littleton, Colo. The school was closed Wednesday while authorities looked for a woman they said presented a credible threat ahead of the 20th anniversary of the mass shooting there.

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FBI Says Armed Woman In Denver Area Obsessed With Columbine Is Dead

4:24pm April 17, 2019

by James Doubek

The FBI and local law enforcement had warned of an "armed and dangerous" 18-year-old white woman who has an "infatuation" with the mass shooting. Sol Pais died of a "self-inflicted gunshot wound."

John Van Dreal, director of safety and risk management for the Salem-Keizer Public Schools system in Salem, Ore., has intervened with more than 1,000 students in hopes of deterring violence. Of that group, he says, only one has gone on to be involved in a

When Teens Threaten Violence, A Community Responds With Compassion

8:00pm February 13, 2019

After years of being beaten up, this teen decided to take justice into his own hands. A school district in Oregon showed him a better way to solve his problems.

There are a mix of factors that lead some kids to become school shooters, fueled in part by desperation, trauma and anger.

School Shooters: What's Their Path To Violence?

11:59am February 10, 2019

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Psychologists and the FBI say they are getting a better understanding of the mix of factors that lead some kids to open fire on a classroom. The shooting can be an act of desperation fueled by anger.

High school students march from the White House to the U.S. Capitol to call for stricter gun laws on Friday in Washington, D.C.

19 Years After Columbine, Students Walk Out To Stop Gun Violence

12:45pm April 20, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Some 2,600 school walkouts are planned across the country, starting at 10 a.m. in each time zone.

Sue Klebold plays in the snow with a young Dylan. "He's like an invisible child that I carry in my arms everywhere I go, always," she says.

Columbine Shooter's Mother: I Carry Him 'Everywhere I Go, Always'

3:27pm February 16, 2016

Sue Klebold says she wishes she'd asked her son Dylan "the kinds of questions that would've encouraged him to open up." Published 17 years after the massacre, her new memoir is A Mother's Reckoning.

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Columbine Survivor To Speak In The Triad

5:00am October 23, 2015

by Neal Charnoff

In 1999, Patrick Ireland was a 17-year-old junior at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Ireland was in the school library when a shooting rampage began.

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