Survivors of the Columbine High School shooting are in their mid-30s today, old enough to have children of their own who now participate in lockdown drills and campus-safety trainings. Lasting Grief After a Mass Shooting Ashley Fetters And that’s when Renee decided it was time to talk to Emma about Columbine.
She immediately called the school: “I was like, ‘What the hell happened?’” It was a drill, the school reassured her the students had just been practicing for an active-shooter situation. Emma was 7 at the time, and Renee, who lives with what she described as severe PTSD, said she had a small panic attack. One afternoon before Renee married Ben, Emma came home and announced that she’d had a lockdown during the day at school. But for Renee, the script fell by the wayside when her audience consisted of one particular person: her daughter, Emma. Both Ben and Renee have shared their story many times over the years, sometimes in public forums, and having a succinct, memorized script can help when you’re reliving a tragedy in front of an audience. In some ways, that’s probably for the best.
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“I’ve always been able to tell it as though I’m reading a story to somebody,” Renee told me over a car Bluetooth speaker as she drove through Seattle with Ben, who agreed: “It feels automated” for him, too, he says. She and her husband, Ben, 36, both lived through the shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. A fter 20 years of telling it, the story of the day you survived a school shooting can get a little rote, admits Renee Oakley, 35.
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