Case Study: Columbine High School Shootings

• April 20th, 1999
• Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado
• 13 people dead, over 20 wounded
• After killings immediately committed suicide
• Two teens, Eric Harris 18 and Dylan Klebold 17
• Causes are considered to be many things including violent video games
• Families of the dead have taken the issue to court trying to change the marketing and distribution of violent video games
• One of the killers was seen with a sawn off shot gun called Arlene named after a character in the Doom video game
• Doom asked players to stalk corridors shooting creatures with a variety of weapons