April 20, 1999, began as an ordinary Tuesday morning in Littleton, Colorado for Columbine High School students who were attending school unaware of the massacre that took place there. was waiting. Two of the current students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, would devastate a community and open the eyes of the entire country. The boys killed twelve classmates and a teacher before committing suicide in the same manner. Additionally, almost a year later, in Boston, Massachusetts, Edgewater Technology applications support worker Michael McDermott murdered seven of his co-workers with an AK-47, a 12-gauge shotgun. and a .32 caliber handgun. Surprisingly, he did not commit suicide like in the previous story and was therefore convicted of seven counts of first degree murder. What is the connection between these two massacres, other than that they both took place on a Tuesday? Eric Harris of the Columbine massacre and Michael McDermott of the Wakefield massacre were both prescribed antidepressant medication before and during their manic killing of people they saw almost every day. After the Columbine massacre, the coroner found therapeutic amounts of the over-the-counter drug Luvox, while Michael McDermott routinely took a similar serotonergic drug. Although these powerful drugs were discovered, they were dismissed as probable causes in the massacre along with other motives and irresistible urges to commit homicide. It was decided that McDermott's motive was that his boss was garnishing his wages on behalf of the IRS to repay taxes he owed. Harris' motive was constant intimidation. In a plethora of homicide cases, which were studied to find similarity between the assailants, the majority had been...... middle of article ......ne (Zoloft) - Drug Class , medical uses, medications Side effects and drug interactions by MedicineNet.com." MedicineNet.com. Np, March 4, 2008. Web. April 26, 2011. .Skolek, Marianne. "International Coalition for Drug Awareness." CCHR: Information Psychiatry Watch, Psychiatric Disorders and Psychiatric Medications March 28, 2011. Web April 25, 2011. "TeenScreen Truth - The Link Between Psychiatry, Drugs and Suicide." .Tracy, Ph.D., Ann Blake "The consequences of Prozac, Zoloft, Luvox, Fen-Phen and many other serotonergic drugs"... 2011. .