{"id":795970,"date":"2019-05-19T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/columbine-school-shooting-survivor-found-dead-in-home\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:22:23","slug":"columbine-school-shooting-survivor-found-dead-in-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/columbine-school-shooting-survivor-found-dead-in-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbine school shooting survivor found dead in home"},"content":{"rendered":"
Shooting victim Austin Eubanks hugs his girlfriend during a community wide memorial service in Littleton for the victims of the shooting rampage at Columbine High School the previous week on April 25, 1999. Eubanks, who survived the 1999 Columbine school shooting and later became an advocate for fighting addiction has died. Routt County Coroner Robert Ryg said Saturday that 37-year-old Eubanks died overnight at his Steamboat Springs home. A Monday autopsy was planned to determine the cause of death.<\/strong>
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. \u2014 A Colorado man who survived the 1999 Columbine school shooting and later became an advocate for fighting addiction has died.<\/p>\n

Routt County Coroner Robert Ryg said Saturday that 37-year-old Austin Eubanks died overnight at his Steamboat Springs home.<\/p>\n

There were no signs of foul play. A Monday autopsy was planned to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n

Eubanks was shot in the hand and knee in the Columbine attack that killed 12 classmates and a teacher, including Eubanks\u2019 best friend.<\/p>\n

He became addicted to drugs after taking prescription pain medication while recovering from his injuries. He later worked at an addiction treatment center and travelled the U.S. telling his story.<\/p>\n

Eubanks\u2019 family says in a statement that he \u201clost the battle with the very disease he fought so hard to help others face,\u201d KMGH-TV reports.<\/p>\n

The family added: \u201cWe thank the recovery community for its support. As you can imagine, we are beyond shocked and saddened and request that our privacy is respected at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shooting victim Austin Eubanks hugs his girlfriend during a community wide memorial service in Littleton for the victims of the shooting rampage at Columbine High School the previous week on April 25, 1999. Eubanks, who survived the 1999 Columbine school shooting and later became an advocate for fighting addiction has died. Routt County Coroner Robert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 17:11:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}