At one point they entered the library and shot students in there, just like Tate does in the series, and it's the only part of the shooting we actually see him carry out.
Eric and Dylan started shooting at 11:19 am and carried on until 12:08, when they both committed suicide by shooting themselves. The shooting was covered internationally and is perhaps the most famous school massacre in the world. The CCTV pictures were widely publicised:
Murder house appears to have based parts of Tate's shooting on some thing that really happened at Columbine, for example, when one of the ghosts of the victims Stephanie appears, she tells Violet that Tate asked her if she believed in God before he killer her. This supposedly really happened to Cassie Barnell before she was killed, with rumours that she was the inspiration behind the songs 'This is Your Time' by Michael W. Smith and 'Cassie' by Flyleaf.
Due
to the devastation caused by the Columbine Massacre, there were some negative
reactions to the show including this story line, with Yahoo! News saying of the
show that "that's the kind of silly, ultimately
empty scare that American
Horror Story is best at. A school shooting is not that."
and that "there was a particular event, or events, that they were trying
to directly evoke and that's just cruel."
Columbine high school massacre (2016)
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at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#11:29_a.m._.E2.80.93_11:36_a.m.:_Library_massacre
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Lawson, R. (2011) ‘American
horror story’ goes too far. Available at:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-horror-story-goes-too-far-151929508.html?ref=gs
(Accessed: 20 April 2016).
Inline Citations: (Lawson, 2011)
Westfield high/massacre (2011)
Available at: http://americanhorrorstory.wikia.com/wiki/Westfield_High/Massacre
(Accessed: 20 April 2016).
Inline Citations: (Westfield
high/massacre, 2011)
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