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Lauren Townsend was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. She was 18.
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Isaiah Shoels was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. He was 18.
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Rachel Scott was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. She was 17.
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Eric Harris (l) and Dylan Klebold were the gunmen that entered the Columbine High School, where they were seniors, and killed 12 students and one teacher. Investigators later found that the two had been planning to bomb the school for a year through journals they left behind.
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Cassie Bernall was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. She was 17.
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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are shown in the cafeteria from surveillance footage released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, had initially placed bombs in the school, but they did not go off. Following the failed detonation, the pair began their shooting spree. At around 12 p.m., the teens killed themselves.
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In one of the many memorials following the shooting, tens of thousands of mourners gathered to honor those who lost their lives in the Columbine High School massacre. Families, friends and students gathered for the 75-minute memorial service in Littleton, Colorado on April 25, 1999.
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More than 20 people were wounded in the massacre.
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Matthew Kechter was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. He was 16.
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Students listened to a classmate's experience regarding the shooting during a prayer service on April 21, 1999.
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Steven Curnow was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. He was 14.
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Mark Manes was later sentenced to six years in prison for selling Klebold one of the guns later used in the massacre. Manes was a former Columbine student.
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During the funeral of 16-year-old Matthew Kechter, mourners stood united with their hands held high at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church on April 27, 1999.
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The massacre began a little after 11 a.m. when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold began shooting fellow students outside of the Columbine, Colorado high school. The two then moved into the school's library, where many of the victims were killed.
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Daniel Mauser was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. He was 15.
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Corey DePooter was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. He was 17.
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On April 20, 1999, two seniors entered Columbine High School and went on a deadly shooting spree that killed 12 students and one teacher, before the suspects turned the guns on themselves. It was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history at the time.
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Kyle Velasquez was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. He was 16.
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Police officers led students out of the building, while others stood guard with their weapons pointed at the high school. SWAT teams entered the school about 45 minutes after the shooting began and nearly five hours later, law enforcement declared the school under control.
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The Daily News frontpage the day after the Columbine High School massacre.
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Kelly Fleming was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. She was 16.
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People ran to safety after they were rescued from the building where Harris and Klebold went on a deadly shooting rampage.
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Shooting victim Austin Eubanks hugs his girlfriend during a community wide memorial service in Littleton, Colo., on Sunday, April 25, 1999, for the vicitms of the shooting rampage at Columbine High School last week. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Mourners visit the memorial made up of flowers, cards and balloons to honor the victims of the Columbine High School shooting.
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Members of the community embrace each other a day after the deadly shootings as they attend a meeting held for families, teachers, students and friends who were affected by the Columbine High School massacre.
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Emergency responders transported an injured victim to the hospital from the horrific scene at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.
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Teenagers mourned the loss of a fellow classmate outside of a parking lot near the Columbine High School on April 21, 1999.
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Daniel Rohrbough was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. He was 15.
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William "Dave" Sanders was one of the victims killed during the Columbine High School shooting. He was 47.
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The massacre sparked a national debate on gun control and school safety. Many schools across the country enacted "zero tolerance" rules regarding disruptive behavior and violent threats from students. Then-President Bill Clinton and then-First Lady Hillary Clinton also visited the students a month after the massacre. "There has to be healing; there have to be answers," the President said. "And for those things that will not heal or cannot be answered, you have to learn to go on with your lives."
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FILE - In this Sunday, April 25, 1999 file photo, shooting victim Austin Eubanks hugs his girlfriend during a community wide memorial service in Littleton, Colo., for the victims of the shooting rampage at Columbine High School the previous week. Recovery took a long dark turn for Austin Eubanks, just 17 when two classmates went on a rampage at Columbine High School. Eubanks was shot in his hand and knee and watched his best friend die, one of 15 killed in the 1999 attack in Colorado, including the shooters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Austin Eubanks, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine school shooting, was found dead in his home on Saturday.
Routt County Coroner Robert Ryg confirmed that Eubanks, 37, died overnight at his home in Steamboat Springs, Colo.
There were no signs of foul play and an autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
Eubanks’ family said in a statement to local ABC affiliate KMGH that he “lost the battle with the very disease he fought so hard to help others face. Helping to build a community of support is what meant the most to Austin, and we plan to continue his work.”
He was 17 years old when the shooters entered the library where he was having lunch with friends. Eubanks was shot in the hand and knee and ended up becoming addicted to drugs after taking prescription medication during his recovery.
He spent years speaking to audiences across America about his struggle with addiction in the years following the shooting.
His death comes less than a month after the 20th anniversary of the mass shooting.
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