Eric Harris

EARLY LIFE
Eric David Harris was born on April 9, 1981. Harris's family would often move due to the fact that his father was a U.S Air Force transport pilot. Harris settled in Littleton, Colorado, in 1993 when his father retired. Eric later met Dylan Klebold in 7th grade and would eventually become increasingly close and best friends. During their junior years, they became inseparable although they would often become victims of bullying. Harris was often described as outgoing and charismatic. In January 1998 they were arrested for breaking into a van and stealing equipment than they were sentenced to do Community Service and eventually complete them. Harris and Klebold would often search up the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing as an inspiration to their goal and hoped to surpass the bombing's casualties. They were thought to be part of the Trenchcoat Mafia however they had no affiliation with the group. Harris was a brooding psychopath, who exhibited lacked empathy, narcissistic traits, and unconstrained aggression. The duo was inspired by Nazism and planned the massacre on April 20, 1999. Before the shooting, they told Brooks Brown to go home to which he did.

DEATH
They later drove to the school dressed in trenchcoats with hats and sunglasses plus bombs and guns. They put their bombs inside the cafeteria then they opened fire on the school campus killing a student after shooting the campus, they entered the school before firing bullets at them killing a teacher before heading upstairs towards the library and killing 12 more before firing at cops and injuring students. Near the end of the shooting, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had been badly wounded barely conscious. Once they had been trapped inside the library, they began to admit defeat knowing that they will not live for much longer, they both committed suicide to avoid capture although Eric was instantly killed by his gunshot wound to his mouth, Dylan was alive for a few seconds before drowning in his blood thus ending the 49-minute standoff.

LEGACY
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were both martyrs often being praised and called Columbiners by future shooters. They were fondly remembered by a lot of people including victims and news. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's actions would motivate some of the worst school shootings in history although they were the main cause for school shootings. People tend to forget them as a way to prevent mass shootings however not everyone will forget them. As long they remember what was they're will always be those who are able to accept what can be and will try. They will always be remembered as both Heros and Villians.