The call was placed at 11:25 a.m.[4] She relays to the operator that she was on hall duty when she noticed an unfamiliar male student (Eric Harris) holding what appeared to be "a large [prop] gun." Dave Sanders, are attempting to find out what is happening outside the "As we crossed the open door, the suspect threw what turned out to be a homemade grenade. By ABC News -- July 6 The following excerpts from the Columbine shooting 911 tapes, just released, show the confusion, anguish and attempts by law enforcement to deal with the unfolding situation: Call from teacher Patti Nielson hiding in library with children. Police officer: Yeah, theres a lot of screaming right outside their door. Searle reports the man is still on the roof and has moved over to the north With the killers still in the library, Hall tried to ward off Ireland's help. is writing a speeding ticket on West Bowles Avenue, just west of Pierce Street, Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. This page has been accessed 20,739 times. Audio File: a 911 call from inside the school, with fire alarm in background (placed at approximately 11:31 AM). call made by Patti Nielson from the library is terminated by the dispatch center I think shes paralyzed, the Why do I have to do it all at once? their cars, they have a clear view of the cafeteria area. Most of the . Then Harris aimed his 9mm carbine at the doorway window and fired. With the trainee on the phone activitily taking the call, your there and can hit a button to speak, but your muted other wise. Just before he reached the cafeteria door, a gunman aimed at the fleeing boy's back and dropped him with a 9mm bullet along the spine. Kirklin turned his head to the sky and saw someone standing over him. They were playing God. Let me know what you think! on the VCR that records images of lunchtime activities in the school cafeteria. and Harris leave the science area and go down into the cafeteria. . I laid her back down. "I'm crouched down. the library hallway. How sure are you that this is actually: Thanks! the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. Her head falls to the side,'' Phelan said. I don't know if I can chime in on this, but I'm going to, way back a few years ago (2009) I was a floor manager on a call center. Theyve got him elevatedthe best they can. "Who is under the table?'' Nielson said she's become increasingly cautious, less trusting and more focused on her "real life." She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. I mean.. you could hear it all, just on the recorded call. Also, why are some of the written records of the prior warnings now missing? Deputy Why can't I just take care of my kids? Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. Jefferson Under the table, Shoels tried to back up. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. This noise corresponds to an operator saying "um" at 2:11 on 11.27.04. since no more activity could be heard on the line. Many tried to shield themselves with tipped chairs. upper level, southwest corner. Denver's independent source of Let's get out of here!''. Walker reports more explosions inside the school. With more gunfire whizzing overhead, one friend, Jayson Autenrieth, pulled her to safety. This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:07. cafeteria area where it explodes. After Klebold and Harris also have bombs constructed with timers in their Harris countys dispatch center goes into an emergency command system as the incoming She also fell behind on her master's. I think I want to have it behind. Harris, It was an older building. weekly ad specials from the denver post voices of columbine PATTI NIELSON Mother, Columbine teacher, library survivor By Susan Besze Wallace Denver Post Staff Writer Apr. In Tributo a Eric Harris y Dylan Klebold. the cafeteria after the bombs exploded. Now it was real. in with 400 other backpacks and bags scattered throughout the cafeteria, the Spotting Rachel Scott and Richard Castaldo sprawled on the ground, nine SWAT officers piled into a fire truck and Dodge Dakota to mount a rescue. I question that. Now Harris and Klebold moved away from the library windows where they started. Magor, on his way to the explosion in a field off Wadsworth, is advised of a And the kid standing there with us, I think, I, he got hit. Taylor crumpled. "There's a nigger over here!'' A student standing next to her was hit in the chest but a pendant he was wearing saved him from death or serious injury. We have found so many explosive devices including several car bombs, things like that. Searle "Wait, there's one more thing,'' he told Harris. Dispatch At around four minutes and twenty seconds into the call, a large explosion erupts from Nielson's end of the line. ", which happens at the start of 11.30.04. Lt. Dave Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. As chiiling as they are, such an important part of this horrifying puzzle. [3] The duo placed two homemade propane tank bombs inside of the school's cafeteria in an attempt to create mass casualties. Boulevard. Columbine 911 call -Why didnt she just LOCK THE DOOR! I think I read that she escaped to a closet or something, but in her 60 Minutes interview she only mentions hiding in the librarian desk. I never attempted to explain this before. I did an in-depth analysis of Patti Nielson's call where I lined up other 911 calls to see whether the audio was from the library or the 911 call center. Hoping a simple human gesture might stop the bloodshed, Steepleton peered from 20 feet away directly into Klebold's eyes. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Harris shouted. Hall blacked out. She had decided she wouldn't graduate in May, but now it looks possible. Kids! Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. The first bullet shattered the door glass and thumped harmlessly into Anderson's necklace. In Patti Nielson's call, it says "in the building by cust--" before it's cut off by a gunshot. She never saw the bullet that tore through her - or the gunman who fired it. Deputy A shard of bomb shrapnel flew into DiManna's cheek. Dan O'Shea, passed by the emergency exit that at least 30 survivors earlier had used to flee the library. The answer that proves that it lines up, aside from the background phone ringing, is a woman who starts talking at 0:11 in Patti Nielson's call, and it lines up exactly with the 911 operator at 0:08 in 11.23.11, who, on Patti Nielson's call, says "Kat, she's got shots being--" before being cut off by Nielson. Yeah, I guess I can try to go, but hes right outside that door. Taborsky, protecting students who have fled out the west side of the school, In the documentary Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High, Brown is quoted as saying: "During the shooting, you can hear [Klebold] saying all kinds of things to people before he kills them. The gun is right outside my door, Nielson frantically told the 911 operator. But they are having difficulty stopping the bleeding. "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. 16 County Sheriffs Offices are en route. Klebold stopped. Seth Houy threw his body over Crystal Woodman and whispered a vow to take a bullet for her. Everyone who could run did. Anyways. [2] The call picked up the deaths of all ten students who died in the library; some can be heard begging for their lives. cancin: erased. onset, both suspects are seen lighting and throwing explosive, Klebold fire a semi-automatic weapon east towards, Klebold and Harris walking east down the north On April 20, 1999, Nielson, a teacher, was a hall monitor at Columbine High School when students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, armed with sawed-off shotguns, a rifle and an automatic pistol opened fire, sending their fellow students running for their lives. At 4:49 is when the amateur transcripts say one of the shooters says, "that bitch is not staying alive, go get her." Several Dispatcher: We have paramedics, we have fire and we have police en route. leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins Sgt. reports several shots fired at Columbine High School. However, it's another 911 operator, at 0:37 of 11.29.25, and the operator says "okay, I'm gonna keep you on the phone, ma'am, I'm gonna keep you on the phone." Both killers moved on, leaving Scott unharmed. Be the first one to, Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre), Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). "Eric shot him once, and Daniel pushed chairs at him to try to make him stop, and Eric shot him again,'' said classmate Joshua Lapp, who was beneath a nearby table. At about 4:14 in Patti Nielson's call, someone distinctly says "okay." However, I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of your assessment. Maybe a couple more lines, but theyre inaudible. Copyright 1999 The Denver Post. then turns and enters the school through the west doors. Nielsen survived the massacre, but the library became a scene of carnage. Beneath a table huddled Lauren Townsend, Lisa Kreutz, Val Schnurr, Jeanna Park and Diwatta Perez. Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. leave the library. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. Shots in the building. Harris on the Internet. "He wanted to kill Brooks, said Randy Brown, so we went to the police with that. outside on the southwest side of the school and gives directions where inside the library entrance, continues her phone contact with the Jefferson two-hour 911 phone call (from 11:29 a.m. to 1:24 p.m.) from a school secretary When I needed to speak, there would be what we called the echo. "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Several "He was conscious. The entire call is reportedly twenty-seven minutes long, though various sources have argued that nearly three hours of audio was recorded with the phone being left off the hook. County Deputies Scott Taborsky and Paul Smoker arrive on the west side of the Audio File: 911 dispatch and calls starting at 11:33 am, Audio File: 911 calls from students and neighbors, Audio File: More 911 calls from students and neighbors, Audio File: Student Matthew Depew's 911 call from the kitchen. "Look at this black kid's brain! But some Columbine parents believe authorities ignored prior warning signsthat the massacre might have been prevented. There were flashbacks. Patti Nielson is a woman with an outwardly sunny disposition. Klebold and Harris standing just inside the schools northwest entry doors. One length of the front counter. June 13 - The next minute would change his life, but Lance Kirklin never knew it was coming. . She was in the midst of work on a master's degree. Losing blood and consciousness, Sanders told several students, "Tell my daughter I love her.''. In the race of their lives, some students literally ran out of their shoes. possibly wearing bulletproof armor. Outside the cafeteria, Rachel Scott, a student actress, was sitting in the grass and eating lunch with Richard Castaldo, attending his first year at Columbine after transferring from Catholic Machebeuf High School. Kastle had swapped pizza and gossip with Klebold for years in their fantasy baseball league. Deputy Paul Smoker, a motorcycle patrolman for the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office, Smoker fires three rounds at him and the gunman disappears Nothing close to what I read elsewhere. in the counseling hallway sees students in the north hallway running east and were going to have another SWAT team do one last search of the school, because Ive heard two three and four suspects. A witness while Harris and Klebold are distracted by the arrival of Deputy Gardner. "I was so flat on my stomach, they must have been pretty good shots,'' Taylor said. Dispatch She sounded like a tape recorder stuck in fast-forward. (These instances are audible in the original release of the 911 call.). more pipe bombs are thrown into the cafeteria from the library hallway a floor Through the library window, the killers spotted a police car. Attention, south units. the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be At one point she says she has to put the phone down and she does. and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. Survivors believe it all took less than 20 minutes. and Klebold walk toward the food serving line in the cafeteria area. positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims They wounded art teacher Patricia "Patti" Nielson (35) and student Bryan Anderson (17) upon entry. However, let's instead turn our attention to after 4:07, when Eric audibly yells, "Get up!" An injured student (John Tomlin, 16) asks the shooters, "Haven't you done enough?" I dont think Im going out there.. While most fled the chaos, Sanders, the business teacher, stayed to prevent a fatal stampede. another student in the south junior parking lot. They laughed about it. "They would whoop and holler when they shot someone. After being grazed by a bullet in the. Fire sprinklers sprayed. I'm getting ready to pick her up. ballfields. Yes!! Bookshelves and cabinets and tables blocked sight lines and made it impossible for any one student to recount the exact sequence of what Harris and Klebold did next. Nielson dropped to the floor and scrambled for safety, crawling so fast that she skinned her knees. "Identify yourself!''. Unless Eric is talking to Bree and Isaiah says "mom" simultaneously, catching Dylan's attention. Would be interested in your analysis on the extra audio exchanged between Val Schnurr and Eric/ Dylan. "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. just In summary, there's only 3 concrete instances of the shooters talking and/or yelling, and all of the rest is background noise from the 911 call center. hears one of the suspects say, GO! The fireball scorched the ceiling and blew out tiles. Alarms blared. Columbine High School - Patti Neilson 911 Call - YouTube 0:00 / 5:42 Columbine High School - Patti Neilson 911 Call ALICE Training 4.04K subscribers Subscribe Share 1.6M views 6 years ago. After independent local journalism in Denver. side. Ester reports that Denver Metro SWAT has arrived on the east side of the school. A shy blond boy whose one close friend in school was assigned to a different lunch hour, Mauser usually ate by himself and spent the rest of "A'' track lunch period reading magazines or studying in the library. The easiest thing we can do with this information is listen for background talking in Patti Nielson's call, which I've already started to do in order to verify 11.23.11 was placed properly. response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises The killers spotted Shoels, a football player and one of the few black students at Columbine. You can hear just after the gunshot the same operator in the same call ask "where, where is that?". You had to have three people in the room listening to confirm what was heard, was said. Deputy Help me! "Maybe we should start knifing people - that would be more fun,'' Todd recalls the other killer saying. Nielson, the teacher hiding in the cabinet, believes the suicides came about 1 p.m. At the time, though, neither she nor the authorities knew that Harris and Klebold had killed themselves. Dispatch And that was before two gun-wielding students changed her life. But harm found him. Harris also reports one person wearing a red and white shirt on the north side of the Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked inside the library. The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. (Sound of gunshots.) - Join the discussion in Your Voice The fire sprinkler system County SWAT commander Lt. Terry Manwaring, on his way to the high school, orders Under the gunfire, Littleton paramedic Jerry Losasso pulled Sean Graves, who was paralyzed, into a waiting ambulance. Hall's right leg gushed blood, so Ireland used his hands to try to slow the hemorrhaging. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Repeat. As she tells the operator her name, Harris and Klebold enter the library and begin to execute their classmates. The Two more students are (No you can't hear them during active calls. Dooley sprinted for the door in front of the two killers. Ive got students, under the table. Contact. A 911 On the ground 10 feet away, Castaldo tried waving his left arm, but it was torn with two bullets and didn't work. Deputy Ireland closed his eyes. Creepy huh?). "You could hear most of them going over the top (of the Blazer),'' Gardner said. They saw Eric Harris at the top of the outdoor stairs, wearing a black trench coat. She also fell behind on her master's. Upon entering the library, Harris shouts, "Get up!" Two This time, it worked. The 911 recording is currently in the hands of the Jefferson County Police Department. of the school and they have long guns., A Dispatch She isn't always sure what to say. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Littleton He survived. the ballfields. The 911 hiding with 17 others in the schools kitchen reports what he thinks is a The final Columbine death toll: 15, including a mortally wounded teacher, Dave Sanders, who bled to death because police hesitated to move into the schoolhouse. Teacher: There are about twenty to thirty students and faculty members there. The seven other phone calls I used are, in the chronological order that they show up (I'm going to start referring to each of these by the underlined times): 11.23.57 Lindsay Macey's call (first minute of this is cut out), 11.23.11 Karen Nielson and Sue Caruther's call, 11.27.04 "Guns and Grenades" call (the one that I split), 11.29.25 "Suspects Near Custodial Closet" call, 11.30.13 "Assistant Principal at Columbine" call. - How to get help I pray they are getting help." Dispatch Get down!. Patti Nielson Nielson was an art teacher at Columbine when the massacre occurred, and probably the first to warn the students about the shooters. She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. alarm in the cafeteria is activated. shoots down the stairs hitting Anne Marie Hochhalter, From the Gruffer voice) -HEEYYY! -the leaked bit: oh my god help me help me! and shut the fuck up!. He immediately is approached by a teacher as well as up on the roof.. school cafeteria. I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. Alot of people make these assumptions of what they are saying but forget the time frame of the call.. minute. Nielson: The school is in a panic. attention to students inside the library. Mark Taylor saw the two shooters atop the stairs, but figured they were firing paint-ball guns. - AP special section Nielson, who suffered from a severe case of PTSD, refused to listen to the playback. Smoker "Three shots rang out. Uploaded by Klebold is running behind them, but comes to an abrupt halt Like, say there were no transcript available and youd never heard it before. I'm doing better concentrating. Phil Hy arrives on scene and begins identifying and The gunmen then turn their In 7 minutes, 10 people The person pointed a sawed-off shotgun at Kirklin's head. videotape. sleeve of a black trench coat shooting a. Klebold On the C-SPAN Networks: Patty Nielson is a Teacher for the Columbine High School with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Rally.Most appearances . 20 Avril 1999. Walker With two final blasts, the rampage was over. area, stopping in front of the Klebold, who wore a vest and ammo belt over his dark T-shirt, had dropped his trench coat onto the library floor. I pray they are getting help." Focusing was a challenge. "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. After that, there's not anything too discernible in the last 8 seconds. Denver Post Staff Writer, Apr. Harris and Klebold laughed. An example is at 1:07 in Patti Nielson's call, there's a loud gunshot or explosion and Patti Nielson exclaims, "Oh, God." There were flashbacks. The explosion is from a pipe bomb. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' Remaining behind in the library, though, were severely wounded students Pat Ireland and Lisa Kreutz, as well as teacher Patti Nielson, who was hiding inside a cabinet. Then he saw a head pop through the hole. gives the command post a description of one of the suspects: Littleton Which would be what you were saying, playing back slower, and randomly distanced sounding from your ears. When the gunmen leave, survivors are heard fleeing. Deputy "Peekaboo!'' ''. Students arrive for classes at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. on Monday. County Patrol Sgt. What do you actually hear on the available bits of the 911 call? Were waiting to clear those . Thinking all the noise was a student video production, Patti Nielson, a hall monitor and art teacher, walked through a school corridor with a curious student, Brian Anderson, to ask the kids to quiet down. According When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. advises multiple reports of shots in the library and multiple suspects with Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Littleton Ester of the Intelligence Unit reports to the southeast side of the school and Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers. They may be thinking the same thing. Littleton it ends before steven curnow even got shot. She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. He desperately hurled the bomb, but it exploded six feet away, stinging Hall and Steepleton with shrapnel wounds. Just try and keep the kids in the library calm. The gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. I decided, she said, that I was not going to let those hateful boys ruin my life.. pipe bomb explodes, several students run out of the south cafeteria doors toward This is because two seconds afterwards, at 4:19, Patti whispers, "He's yelling everybody get up right now," and repeats herself a couple seconds later. Then they chucked more bombs. its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that While the first five and half minutes of the call have been released to the public, the rest of the audio is "available" in the form of a transcript.
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