Rachel Scott
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| Born |
Rachel Joy Scott August 5, 1981 Denver, Colorado |
| Died | April 20, 1999 (aged 17) Littleton, Colorado |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wounds to the head and torso. |
| Resting place | Columbine Memorial Gardens at Chapel Hill Cemetery, Littleton, Colorado, United States 39°35′56.00″N 104°56′43.01″W / 39.5988889°N 104.9452806°WCoordinates: 39°35′56.00″N 104°56′43.01″W / 39.5988889°N 104.9452806°W |
| Occupation | Student |
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Rachel Joy Scott (August 5, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was an American student and the first murder victim of the Columbine High School massacre, which also claimed the lives of 11 other students and a teacher as well as both perpetrators.
She has since been the subject of several books and is the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge, an international school outreach program and the most popular school assembly program in America, with the objective to advocate Rachel's belief, based on her life, her journals, and the contents of a two-page essay penned just a month before her murder entitled My Ethics; My Codes of Life which had advocated Rachel's belief in compassion being "the greatest form of love humans have to offer."
Owing to the fact both Rachel Scott and Anne Frank died at a young age through the intolerance and hatred of others, and that both girls had written of their wishes to change the world for the better through the simple acts of love and kindness, parallels have been drawn between the journals Rachel Scott had written in her short lifespan and Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl.
Rachel Joy Scott was born on August 5, 1981, in Denver, Colorado. She was the third of five children born to Darrell Scott (b. 1949) and Beth Nimmo (b. 1953). Her older sisters are Bethanee (b. 1975) and Dana (b. 1976), and her two younger brothers are Craig (b. 1983) and Mike (b. 1984). Scott's entire family are devout Christians. Her father, Darrell, had formerly been a pastor at a church in Lakewood, Colorado, and worked as a sales manager for a Denver-based food company, whereas her mother, Beth, was a homemaker. Rachel's parents divorced in 1988, but maintained a cordial relationship to one another, and the couple held joint custody of their children. The following year, Beth and her children relocated to Littleton, Colorado, where she remarried in 1995.
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