Computer and business teacher Dave Sanders, 47, was murdered after saving countless lives during a 15-minute killing spree.The Columbine killings 25 years ago tomorrow resulted in the deaths of 13 children aged 14 to 18 before the two killer pupils, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, took their own lives.
Dylan Klebold, one of the shooters in school shooting of fourteen students and one teacher that were killed 20 April, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton. Picture: HO / COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK / AFP The softball coach wasn’t even supposed to be in school when Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, started their deadly assault.
A pipe bomb they threw into the car park and huge explosives placed in the cafeteria all failed to detonate. But the police feared it was a trick by the shooters and it wasn’t until 3pm that a paramedic reached Dave. By that time he was dead. In the immediate aftermath, Coni admits she felt annoyed that her father had put himself in harm’s way.
The senseless slayings shocked the world, with countless books and documentaries made in an attempt to understand the killers.