Editing Columbine High School massacre (section)

==Crisis ends==

===SWAT response===
[[File:Storytellers - "Columbine High School" (May 2016).ogg|thumb|A survivor recalls the events of the day]]By 12:00&nbsp;p.m., [[SWAT|SWAT teams]] were stationed outside the school, and ambulances started taking the wounded to local hospitals. A call for additional ammunition for police officers in case of a shootout came at 12:20. Authorities reported pipe bombs by 1:00, and two SWAT teams entered the school at 1:09, moving from classroom to classroom, discovering hidden students and faculty.<ref name=SWAT /> They entered at the end of the school opposite the library, hampered by old maps and unaware a new wing had recently been added. They were also hampered by the sound of the fire alarms.<ref name=lesson/>

===Leawood Elementary===
Meanwhile, families of students and staff were asked to gather at nearby [[Leawood Elementary School (Colorado)|Leawood Elementary School]] to await information. All students, teachers, and school employees were taken away, questioned, and offered medical care in small holding areas before being bussed to meet with their family members at Leawood Elementary. In his book ''Walking in Daniel's Shoes'', Tom Mauser, father of victim Daniel Mauser, recounts how several families who'd still been waiting on word of the status of their children were informed by law enforcement that another bus from the school was on its way. However, this bus never arrived, and whether the comments from police stemmed from miscommunication or were an attempt to give distraught parents hope is unknown.<ref>{{Harvnb|Mauser|2012|p=4}}</ref>

===The boy in the window===
Patrick Ireland had regained and lost consciousness several times after being shot by Klebold. Paralyzed on his right side, he crawled to the library windows where, on live television, at 2:38&nbsp;p.m., he stretched out the window, intending to fall into the arms of two SWAT team members standing on the roof of an emergency vehicle, but instead falling directly onto the vehicle's roof in a pool of blood. He became known as "the boy in the window."<ref name=five/><ref>{{cite news |date=April 14, 2000 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boy-in-the-window-wont-look-back/ |title='Boy in the Window' Won't Look Back |work=[[CBS News]] |access-date=October 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128060501/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/04/14/columbine/main183922.shtml |archive-date=January 28, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> The team members, Donn Kraemer and John Ramoniec, were later criticized for allowing Ireland to drop more than seven feet to the ground while doing nothing to try to ensure he could be lowered to the ground safely or break his fall.

==="1 bleeding to death"===
At 2:15&nbsp;p.m., students placed a sign in the window: "1 bleeding to death", in order to alert police and medical personnel of Dave Sanders's location in the science room.<ref name=eyes/><ref name=":5" /> Police initially feared it was a ruse by the shooters. A shirt was also tied to the doorknob. At 2:30, this was spotted, and by 2:40, SWAT officers evacuated the room of students and called for a paramedic.<ref name=SWAT /> Hancey and Starkey were reluctant to leave Sanders behind.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=hancey /> By 3:00, the SWAT officers had moved Sanders to a storage room, which was more easily accessible.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |year=2000 |title=SWAT - Special Weapons and Tactics |url=http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/columbine.cd/Pages/SWAT_TEXT.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040925075415/http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/columbine.cd/Pages/SWAT_TEXT.htm |archive-date=25 September 2004 |access-date=2021-02-02 |website=CNN.com}}</ref> As they did so, a paramedic arrived and found Sanders had no [[pulse]].<ref name=":5" /><ref name=SWAT /> He had died of his injuries in the storage room before he could receive medical care. He was the only teacher to die in the shooting.

=== Suicide mission; estimated 25 dead ===
Lisa Kreutz, shot in the shoulder, arms, hand, and thigh, was evacuated at 3:22&nbsp;p.m., along with Patti Nielson, Brian Anderson, and the three library staff who had hidden in the rooms adjacent to the library. Officials found the bodies in the library by 3:30.<ref name=SWAT>Columbine Report, SWAT</ref>

[[File:President Clinton's Remarks Regarding Columbine HS Shooting (1999).webm|thumb|President [[Bill Clinton]]'s remarks regarding the shooting on April 20, 1999]]
By 4:00, Sheriff John P. Stone made an initial estimate of 25 dead students and teachers, 50 wounded, and referred to the massacre as a "suicide mission".<ref name="SWAT" /><ref name="twfive">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/20/school.shooting.08/ |title=As many as 25 dead in Colorado school attack |date=April 20, 1999 |publisher=CNN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000824081540/http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/20/school.shooting.08/ |archive-date=August 24, 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref> President [[Bill Clinton]] later issued a statement.<ref name="twfive" />

=== Bomb squad response ===
Stone said that police officers were searching the bodies of the gunmen. They feared they had used their pipe bombs to [[Booby trap|booby-trap]] corpses, including their own. At 4:30&nbsp;p.m., the school was declared safe. At 5:30, additional officers were called in, as more explosives were found in the parking lot and on the roof. By 6:15, officials had found a bomb in Klebold's car in the parking lot, set to detonate the gas tank.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/21/school.shooting.01/ |title=Colorado school shooters identified |date=April 21, 1999}}</ref> Stone then marked the entire school as a crime scene.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

At 10:40&nbsp;p.m., a member of the bomb squad, who was attempting to dispose of an un-detonated pipe bomb, accidentally lit a striking match attached to the bomb by brushing it against the wall of the ordnance disposal trailer. The bomb detonated inside the trailer but no one was injured.<ref name=bombsum />

The bomb squad disarmed the car bomb. Klebold's car was repaired and, in 2006, put up for auction.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/columbine-killer-s-car-back-on-market |title=Columbine Killer's Car Back on Market |access-date=November 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123201204/https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/columbine-killer-s-car-back-on-market |archive-date=November 23, 2018}}</ref>