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LITTLETON, Colorado (AP) – Update on events marking the 20th anniversary of the shooting at Columbine School (local time):
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A ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting ended with the names of 12 students and the death of a killed teacher, as well as the release of white doves.
More than 2,000 people attended the event in a park near Denver's suburban high school on Saturday afternoon.
Frank DeAngelis, director of the school during the 1999 shooting, said that he started each morning reciting the names of the victims. He thanked their families for supporting him, as well as the school in the decades that followed the murder of their loved ones by two armed teenagers.
Saturday's ceremony ended three days of dark meetings dedicated to paying tribute to the victims and providing support to the victims, the school and the families of the victims.
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The people affected by the shooting in Columbine speak openly and emotionally about their struggles and their advances since the deaths of 12 students and one teacher 20 years ago.
Patrick Ireland was nicknamed "The Boy at the Window" when cameras caught him hanging from a second-floor window before falling during a school shooting in 1999. He was partially paralyzed and had to relearn how to walk and talk. At a commemorative ceremony held on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the attack on a school Saturday, he said that no members of the school or the surrounding community was unscathed. He said the affected people must persevere to help make a positive impact on the lives of others.
Dawn Anna's daughter, Lauren Townsend, was killed. She said that the only secret to surviving such a loss is that there is no secret and that healing requires work. But she said those who have lost loved ones have also become stronger in some ways and have tried to help others and to feel the suffering of other families who are suffering from the shooting.
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15:30.
People are gathered in the suburbs of Denver for a commemorative ceremony honoring the victims of those killed in the shooting at Columbine High School High School 20 years ago.
The Saturday ceremony near the school puts an end to a series of grim three-day rallies in the honor of the victims and providing support to survivors, school and the families of the victims.
Speakers emphasized the strength and change resulting from the tragedy. To symbolize this, the artist Makoto Fujimura presented a Japanese tea bowl from the seventeenth century that was broken and then reconstituted with gold, thus making it better and more beautiful.
Pastor James Hoxworth urged everyone who was still struggling because of the shooting to ask for help.
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1:05 p.m.
A steady stream of people come to a monument to the 13 people killed at Columbine High School 20 years ago, before a commemoration ceremony in the suburbs of Denver.
Visitors left dozens of single flowers as well as maps and packets of seeds for the Columbines, Colorado's state flower, in the inner circle of Saturday's memorial.
The sheriff's deputy ministers patrolled the area on foot and by bike on a hot day as small championship games were held in nearby fields.
Saturday's events in the Columbine suburbs end a series of three-day dark ceremonies in the honor of the victims and providing support to survivors, the school and the families of the victims.
This week, federal authorities conducted a human hunt for a Florida teenager "infatuated" with the shooting. She was found dead in an apparent suicide Wednesday in the hills west of Denver.
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22:30.
A Colorado community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School attack, which killed 13 people and injured 24 others with community service projects and a remembrance ceremony.
Saturday's events put an end to several days of commemoration in the suburbs of Columbine, reminding people killed and providing support to their families, attack survivors, students and school staff.
The days surrounding the birthday remain emotionally charged for survivors of the attack, including those who have no physical injuries.
This week, federal authorities conducted a human hunt for a Florida teenager "infatuated" with the shooting. The young woman went to Denver on Monday and bought a shotgun.
She was found dead in an apparent suicide Wednesday in the hills west of Denver.
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