LITTLETON, Colo. (MEDIA GENERAL) – It’s been 17 years since the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado.
On April 20, 1999, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives. Twenty three others were injured.
Here’s a look back at photos from that day and the days that followed:
Columbine High School massacre
SWAT members run down Pierce Street while a Jefferson County, Colo., Sheriff's Department deputy peers through a fence to keep an eye on Columbine High School after a pair of gunmen went on a shooting rampage inside the facilty Tusday, April 20, 1999, in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Students from Columbine High School are led away from the facility after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage Tuesday, April 20, 1999, in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
In this April 20, 1999 file photo members of a police SWAT march to Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., as they prepare to do a final search of the school. Classes are canceled Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at Columbine High School on the anniversary of the 1999 shootings. Twelve students and a teacher died in the shootings before two teenage gunmen committed suicide. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
Christine Medina, right, a sophomore at Columbine High School, fights back tears as she is comforted by friend Kathy Zamora after Medina and hundreds of other students were evacuated from the school Tuesday, April 20, 1999, after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
In an April 20, 1999 file photo unidentified young women head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/Kevin Higley/file)
A woman embraces her daughter after they were reunited following a shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., on Tuesday, April, 20, 1999. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
In an April 20, 1999 file photo Fran Allison, right, comforts her daughter Brooke after they were reunited after a shooting at Columbine High School in Denver on Tuesday, April, 20, 1999. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski/FILE)
Kate Moulton, left, is reunited with her daughter Lauren, 14, after a shooting at Columbine High School in Denver on Tuesday, April, 20, 1999. Two young men dressed in long, black trench coats opened fire in the suburban high school today, scattering students as gunshots ricocheted off lockers. At least 20 people were wounded and other injured people were stranded for hours in the building. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
Columbine High School students from left, Darcy Craig, Molly Byrne and Emily Dubin stop to pay their respects at a make shift memorial set up in a park near the high school, Thursday, April 22, 1999. Two student suspects killed 13 people and then themselves in a shooting spree at the school on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Eric Harris, left, and Dylan Klebold, carrying a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol, are pictured in the cafeteria at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, during their April 20, 1999 shooting rampage where they killed a teacher and 12 students. Both gunmen killed themselves later in the school library. This still image is from a videotape released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Jefferson County District Judge Brooke Jackson ordered the tapes released late last month, along with copies of law-enforcement radio transmissions. The releases were requested by the families of slain students Kelly Fleming and Daniel Rohrbough, who have sued the sheriff's office. (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Department)
Eric Harris is shown in a 1998 yearbook photo from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Harris is one of two suspects identified by classmates and Denver media in a shooting at the school Tuesday, April 20, 1999. (AP Photo)
Dylan Klebold is shown in a 1998 yearbook photo from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Klebold is one of two suspects identified by classmates and Denver media in a shooting at the school Tuesday, April 20, 1999. (AP Photo)
In this image from television, a Columbine High School student is rescued by emergency personnel during the shooting spree at the school in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo., Tuesday, April 20, 1999. (AP Photo/KCNC-TV Denver)
This aerial shows the news media compound near Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., Wednesday, April 21, 1999. Media from around the world poured into the area after 15 people were killed during a shooting spree inside the school. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
Unidentified students embrace each other at a makeshift memorial for their slain classmates at Columbine High School on a hilltop overlooking the school in Littleton, Colo, Saturday April 24, 1999. Twelve students and a teacher were killed in a murderous rampage at the school last Tuesday by two students who killed themselves in the aftermath. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
A boy looks through the fence at the Columbine High School tennis courts in Littleton, Colo., Saturday, April 24, 1999. Thirteen roses were placed on the fence in remembrance of the 13 people killed by two gun wielding students at the school, Tuesday, April 20, 1999. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
From left, Rachel Ruth, Rhianna Cheek and Mandi Annibel, all 16-year-old sophomores at Heritage High School in Littleton, Colo., console each other during a vigil service in Denver's Civic Center Park late Wednesday, April 21, 1999, to honor the victims of the shooting spree in Columbine High School in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton on Tuesday, April 20, 1999. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
