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Articlesby Melanie BasichJune 1, 2007

Can We Stop the Next Cho Seung-Hui?

At about 9 a.m. on April 16, snow was flurrying down on the Virginia Tech University campus. The flakes drifted lazily into the trees. Students walked to class. It was pretty. It was peaceful. It was the kind of scene that a college catalog photographer prays for. Just minutes later, the peace was broken.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 18, 2006

Columbine Video Game Draws Relatives' Ire

An online game based on the Columbine High School massacre is drawing criticism from relatives of those who died in the 1999 attack, including a father who says it trivializes the actions of the two teen killers.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 22, 2004

Columbine School Shooting Remembered

The Jefferson County (Colo.) Sheriff’s office is still under investigation for the way it handled complaints about the two teenagers who killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., before committing suicide. Many still believe that the Sheriff’s Office should have been able to predict and prevent the killings.

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Articlesby Dave DouglasOctober 1, 2002

Jumping into the Fire

At Columbine, the officers, deputies, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel did an incredible job in their response to an unbelievably bad situation. But through no fault of their own, the tactics they were trained to use were not suited to the nature of the incident.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 28, 2001

SWAT Member Fears He May Have Killed Innocent Columbine Student

The family of Daniel Rohrbough, a slain Columbine student, claims he was shot and killed by a Denver police officer and not a student gunman as originally suspected, according to The Toronto Sun.

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Real Players Resist Urge to Armchair QB

Having trained thousands of law enforcement officers in the proper response to and resolution of critical incidents, we watched the Columbine tragedy as courageous tactical officers executed a hurried but effective plan to safely "clear the school."

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Articlesby Dennis HallJune 1, 1999

Columbine Murders Offer Lessons for the Future

The massacre of 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School outside Denver, Colo., in April was the worst schoolyard carnage by students in this nation's history and many providing training lessons to law officers across the country for years.

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