we were disturbed by the shooting because it took place at a busy mall filled with holiday shoppers. but these events don t stay with us for long. the dead are buried and the new cycle moves on. perhaps we have become enured to the horror. april, 1999, 12 students and one teacher, shot and killed in columbine, colorado, 21 more survived with gunshot wounds among them, craig scott. the day of the shooting at columbine, it was the worst day of my life. this is worse than columbine. these are little kids that we are talking about. and so many parents hearts are breaks out there. and i m sure that many little kids don t understand what happened. reporter: columbine is synonymous with mass shootings. the pictures of students fleeing the school are images we personalized. what would we do if something
far. he says four remain in critical condition. they are young between the ages of 16 and 31. no specifics right now on the gas that was used, was it tear gas, we don t know, in that theater but he said the patients seen including four in critical condition received gunshot wounds to the neck, torso and abdomen. again all very young. we ll have more details at other hospitals feed in live press conferences as well as the police. so you want to keep it right here on fox, all of this unfolding in the town of aurora. that is just 15 miles from the scene of one of the worst mass shootings in american history, littleton, colorado. and that state has had more than its share of these tragedies. in april 1999, two teenagers storming columbine high school in littleton, over five hours they killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others. in july of 2001 in western colorado, three people were killed, four wounded in a
able to help others through organ donation. in just about 2 1/2 hours, the high school sophomore accused of shooting five fellow students, three of whom have now died, is due to appear in juvenile court. the state s attorney general says that it is likely that 17-year-old tj lane will be tried as an adult. people who knew him said that lane was a guarded boy, from a troubled family. for more on that and the victims and the fallout from yesterday s terrible attack, i want to bring in my colleague, ted rowlands, who is live from chardon. this young boy is in a lot of trouble, likely adult trouble. and now with a third death in this case, i m hearing that the sheriff is saying, we re moving to another phase. what exactly does the sheriff mean by that? well, clearly, we re talking about a triple homicide and this is a premeditated homicide, actually, and to say that he s in a lot of trouble is an understatement. and yes, he is a juvenile at this point, but we have seen in case