Florida school shooting Break the cycle Columbine survivor to Florida students: 'you will come out on the other side' Austin Eubanks became addicted to painkillers after the 1999 shooting. Photograph: Courtesy of Austin EubanksNineteen years ago, Austin Eubanks hid under a table in his high school library as two students opened fire on their classmates. Hours after the latest school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Eubanks, now 36, spoke about the vivid parallels between Wednesday’s school shooting and the Columbine shooting on 20 April 1999. Read moreAt Columbine, 12 students and one teacher were murdered, and two dozen injured, before the two perpetrators killed themselves. The Parkland shooting is the deadliest high school shooting in contemporary American history, according to statistics compiled by Mother Jones, which has tracked incidents going back to 1982.

Source: The Guardian February 15, 2018 14:21 UTC