Kelly Fleming (January 6th, 1983 - April 20th, 1999)

“When I got behind the police car, I couldn’t help but be thinking about Matt and Isaiah. Because there was still a little bit of breathing. I felt a little like.. a coward.”

Michael Shoels & Craig Scott on the Today Show (April 22nd, 1999)

“I wanted to be able to hug Isaiah’s dad. Just because I spent that last few minutes with his son. Because I made it out. And I got home and I got to see my mom, and I got to see my dad that night. And Isaiah didn’t.”

Kyle Velasquez & Daniel Velasquez

“I lost my brother, I lost a part of my parents. That was something I always just kept in. You see your father breakdown, your mother breakdown, and everybody around you is breaking down. It was easier for me to step into the role of being a strong person and try and let people cry on your shoulder. It was easier for me to deal with it that way.” - Daniel Velasquez (13 Families, 2009)

Daniel Mauser (June 25th, 1983 - April 20th, 1999)

Rachel Joy Scott (1999)

It really is! I made my first blog back in 2010. When the tumbeasts couldn’t handle too many people on here at once! Now look at us! 👵🏻

I can’t believe I started this blog when I was 20, and now I’m in the last year of my 20s??? Thank you guys so much for still following! Even during the reposts and random 3 month breaks! ❤️

William “Dave” Sanders (10/22/1951 - 4/20/1999)

“Those were his kids! He was going to do whatever he had to do to make sure that his kids were okay.”

I can’t believe I started this blog when I was 20, and now I’m in the last year of my 20s??? Thank you guys so much for still following! Even during the reposts and random 3 month breaks! ❤️

Richard Castaldo (2013)

Columbine Library survivors Amanda Stair-Duran & Craig Scott reunite after 20 years. 

After the gunmen left the library, Amanda was the first person Craig crawled over to when he heard crying coming from behind him. Amanda told him it was the girl next to her, Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson, who was the one crying and was severely injured. Craig and Amanda then proceeded to help Kacey escape. 

Craig Scott (2019)

“Rachel was beautiful, inside and out. She was a hard worker with a great sense of humor. After I got out of the school on the day of the shooting, I watched the news coverage on TV, trying to find out who had been shot. I saw videotape of students running past a body on the ground. All you could see clearly was the victim’s hair, but that was enough. I had helped to cut Rachel’s hair, so I knew she was the one lying there.” - Devon Adams

“Lauren Beachem was trapped in one of the science rooms that day. When the SWAT team evacuated everyone, she saw Rachel’s body on her way out of the school. She didn’t want to believe it was Rachel.”

“We’d been at home watching helicopter footage outside the school, and lying near the exterior steps of Columbine was the body of a girl who was wearing clothes just like those I’d seen Rachel wearing earlier that day.  My brother Aaron was on the phone all afternoon, asking people if they knew anything. I was sitting with my friend Steve Partridge on our porch when Aaron ran out to give us an update. “Rachel Scott’s dead,” he said. Aaron was just giving us a name. He didn’t realize that we both knew Rachel, or that Steve had dated Rachel for a long time. When Steve heard the news, he fell silent. Then he collapsed.“ - Brooks Brown

“Officials began to let Granillo and other students still leaving the school run up a nearby hill to safety. “I run up the hill and I look down and there’s a girl who had been killed laying on her back – which was my friend Rachel. I didn’t know that at the time – and I almost tripped over her.” - Sam Granillo

“I went to the local Elementary school where the unconnected children and parents were gathering. It was there where countless students told me that they’d been evacuated past the body of Rachel Scott, a girl on my debate team with whom I was close with. I looked at the first boy who told me that - her varsity mentor on the team, my state poetry champion - and said, “That’s not true. You’re lying.” Then I walked away.” - Paula Reed

Sam Granillo (2012)

Dateline takes a look back at the tragedy with Sam Granillo in a special called “The Road Home.” Granillo, now 32, travels with NBC’s Lester Holt meeting students, parents and teachers who have been victims of other school shootings. The road trip brings the pair from Jonesboro, Arkansas to Red Lake, Minnesota to Dekalb, Illinois, to Virginia Tech. The journey concludes as Granillo returns to Columbine, confronting many long-held fears.

“Sam was one of 17 people at Columbine High School barricaded in an office near the school’s cafeteria, where much of the massacre took place. The students quickly noticed that there was no lock on the office door, so Granillo shoved his toes into the bottom of the door and laid on the ground to use his body weight to wedge it shut.

“A couple minutes later the doorknob turns,” Granillo recalled. “And it’s just like in a horror movie almost, when you’re trying to be quiet and the doorknob starts to turn and you know what’s on the other side. And everyone in my room, which was a tiny office, started pushing on my knees and shoulders trying to brace me. We were fighting the door shut against the shooters.” He cannot be sure who was on the other side of the door, but assumes it was Klebold and Harris. Sam was later rescued by the SWAT team.

Officials began to let Granillo and other students still leaving the school run up a nearby hill to safety. “I run up the hill and I look down and there’s a girl who had been killed laying on her back – which was my friend Rachel. I didn’t know that at the time – and I almost tripped over her,” Granillo said, referring to Rachel Scott, a 17-year-old student who was shot to death on the lawn along the west entrance to the school while eating lunch with friend Richard Castaldo who Sam was supposed to join to eat lunch with both of them that day.

Today Sam is working on a documentary called Columbine: Wounded Minds and still feels survivors guilt to this day. “

“At the moment when he could have run for his life, Dave Sanders ran instead toward the gunfire. Hearing the sound of shooting, the popular business teacher, who also coached girls’ basketball and softball, raced from the faculty lounge to the cafeteria, where he jumped onto a chair and shouted to the more than 300 students to get down and take cover. “I truly believe he saved my life and the lives of many other people,” freshman Lindsey Dowling, 15, said at his April 26 memorial service. A native of Newtown, Ind., Sanders started at Columbine in 1975. It was the only teaching job he ever held—or wanted. Over the years, the twice-married father of four daughters and grandfather of five children became a fixture at the school. On his last day, after clearing out the cafeteria, he ran toward the library but was gunned down on the way and died three hours later as students struggled to Save him. “As soon as I heard one of the teachers went to protect the kids, I knew it was Dave,” says friend Greg Lighty. “He always did the right thing.”