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. Columbine High School massacre shooters death photos . Photos of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold dead after committing suicide. On April 20, 1999, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton High School shot and killed twelve students and one teacher before killing themselves after exchanging gunfire with police. 25 years after the Columbine shooting, school security is a rapidly evolving field in Colorado and elsewhere in the U.S. The April 20, 1999, Columbine shooting, which killed 13, shocked the nation. Here’s what has and hasn’t changed in school shootings in the 20 years since. David Handschuh, the New York Daily News photographer whose work is featured in this series, submitted four of his Columbine pictures for the reactions of Jenny Wieland, co-founder of Mothers Against Violence in America , and two journalists from the Herald, a daily newspaper in Everett, Washington — Editor Stan Strick and Rich Shulman. Change will only happen if we take a multipronged approach, and our research and reporting revealed four critical issues, all of which are connected to this uniquely American problem: the media, gun laws, school security, and mental health.
Columbine Pictures: The Photos That Changed America
The Rocky Mountain News photography staff received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography "for its powerful collection of emotional images taken ...
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