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June 24, 2019

20 years after Columbine, a debate on bulldozing the school

  • The campus remains a morbid attraction for people obsessed with the 1999 attack.
    • By KATHLEEN FOODY
    Associated Press

    DENVER — Two decades after the name “Columbine” became synonymous with a school shooting, the suburban Denver community surrounding the school is debating whether it's time to tear down a building that also became a beacon for people obsessed with the killings.

    School officials said the number of people trying to get close to or even inside the school reached record levels this year, the 20th anniversary of the 1999 attack that killed 13 people. People try to peek into the windows of the school library, mistaking it for the long-demolished room where most of the victims died, or ask people on campus how to take a tour.


     
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