DENVER, April 19 (UPI) -- Nearly five years since the Columbine High School tragedy in Colorado there is still no permanent memorial to the 13 slain students and teacher.
Organizers tell the Denver Post fundraising was slowed by the sour economy and other Columbine-related projects. Only about 25 percent of the $1.3 million goal has been raised so far.
The suburban Denver high school converted the old library -- the scene of most of the slayings -- into an atrium. The memorial would be built on a plot west of the school.
Columbine students and faculty would welcome the memorial because it would not only honor the victims but also divert sightseers away from the school.
Lee Andres, a teacher and assistant football coach, told The Post as recently as Easter Sunday people were driving through the parking lot with cameras.
It was five years ago Tuesday that students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students and a teacher at the school before taking their own lives in the nation's deadliest school shooting.
