LITTLETON, Colo.—A memorial to victims of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School will be dedicated Sept. 21, the Columbine Memorial Committee said Tuesday.
The $1.5 million memorial will sit in a park next to the school, where two student gunmen killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves April 20, 1999.
Construction is 85 percent complete, the memorial committee said in a statement.
An inner Ring of Remembrance will include 13 stations for each slain victim, with messages from their families etched into the ring’s stone walls. An outer Ring of Healing will be engraved with words of Columbine victims, students, teachers, staff and community members.
The memorial originally was a $2.5 million project but was scaled back. It was delayed while the Columbine community focused first on rebuilding the school library, where many victims were shot.
Then fundraising lagged amid a softening economy and tragedies such as the 2001 terrorist attacks, the southeast Asia tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.
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