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Both had two shooters.
"It's pretty rare," said Dave Cullen, author of "Parkland: The Birth of a Movement" and "Columbine", at CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night.
"It's usually a leader and a follower – it's a totally different and specific psychology going on there."
Two suspects were apprehended after Tuesday's shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch. The suspects would be school students, said Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock.
The attack took place less than three weeks after the 20th anniversary of the shooting in Columbine. The STEM school is about 11 km from Columbine, where Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people on April 20, 1999.
Shooters like those who participated in Tuesday's attack, Cullen said, have almost always studied previous attacks, especially the Columbine killers, Cullen said.
"To study Eric and Dylan from Columbine, then so many others who are studying … there is a whole web," Cullen said. "But it usually goes back to those two people whom the authors consider … as a kind of founding father of this movement."
A completely different police response
The Columbine shooters committed suicide after shooting their victims.
On Tuesday, the school warned the authorities almost immediately after gunshots began to sound in the building. And the first sheriff's deputies arrived within two minutes and engaged with the suspects, Spurlock said.
"I have to believe that the quick reaction of the officers who entered this school saved lives," Spurlock said.
Cullen called the protocol change from the active shooter to "fantastic".
"And it's because of Columbine," he says. "Unfortunately, the authors also follow these kinds of things and they know that they must maximize their firepower very quickly and recover it."
"That's why they usually commit suicide too," he said.
An online community
Cullen said that there is an online community of people idolizing school shooters, especially a group called True Crime Community, or TCC.
The activity in the group "stops cold" after every shot, Cullen said. This was particularly slow after last year's shooting of Marjory Stoneman High School's Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Last month, Cullen told Brooke Baldwin of CNN that the CTC was like a "fandom", at the center of which are the Columbine shooters.
CNN's Sheena Jones, Steve Almasy, Darran Simon, Chris Boyette and Michael Nedelman contributed to this report.
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