Deletion of Richland High School shooting

Comment: I looked at the first cited reference, and found that it was a New York Times retrospective piece on rampage murders, published 5 years after this particular shooting. This shooting is one of the cases that receives the most attention in the piece. That published coverage, by itself, demonstrates to me that this is not an ephemeral news item, but a notable event.  doesn't apply here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: This shooting received a lot of coverage, not just in the aftermath of the shooting. See http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/22/news/ss-24169 this lengthy article in the LA Times five years after the event, a few paragraphs in http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/10/us/the-well-marked-roads-to-homicidal-rage.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm this 2000 The New York Times article cited in our article, and coverage, and coverage http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/17/48hours/main2697170.shtml in a CBS news article from 2007. None of these are news stories in the sense that they are not covering a recent event about the case, but rather discussing the case as an example of a school shooting, and none of these are less than 5 years after the event. I think these articles add up to  for me, and demonstrate that  doesn't apply here. Editors may wish to use the name of the perpetrator as a better search term than that listed above
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NOTNEWSPAPER)