Rachel Scott
American murder victim (1981–1999) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rachel Joy Scott (August 5, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was an American student who was the first fatality of the Columbine High School massacre, in which 11 other students and a teacher were also murdered by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who then committed suicide.
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Born | Rachel Joy Scott (1981-08-05)August 5, 1981 |
Died | April 20, 1999(1999-04-20) (aged 17) Columbine, Colorado, U.S.[1] |
Cause of death | Gunshot wounds[2] |
Burial place | Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Centennial, Colorado, U.S.[3] |
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Scott's belief in Christianity and the circumstances of her death have led to her being remembered by groups of evangelical Christians as a Christian martyr. She was posthumously the subject and co-writer of several books and the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge, an international[4][5] school outreach program and the most popular school assembly program in the U.S.[6]
The aim of Rachel's Challenge is to advocate Scott's values, based on her life, her journals, and the contents of a two-page essay, penned a month before her murder, entitled My Ethics; My Codes of Life.[7] This essay advocates her belief in compassion being "the greatest form of love humans have to offer".[8]