Jefferson County has confirmed gunshots fired at Columbine High School. "In some ways I was a magnet to some people, and yet other people felt uncomfortable around me. sees Klebold and Harris in the science hallway. "You could. SHOT. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. location at Caley Avenue and Yukon Street, Harris and Klebold go into the hallway and make their way to the science Its merely a flesh wound! and the peekaboo thing and do you believe in God?. Suddenly bullets hit Scott. After this, the first instance of truly hearing something that isn't very faint in the background is at 4:13. "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. I think that's the start of my new year.". response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises You can hear this operator again at 4:59 of Patti Nielson's call, and asks, "What's the emergency?" (No you can't hear them during active calls. . Pierce Street to the south. And I knew it was older because the phones looked like the desk phones of my teachers, when I was in high school. Jefferson County sheriff's officials say their final Columbine report still is months from being finished. ambulances should come into the area to rescue them. Searle reports the man is still on the roof and has moved over to the north alarm in the cafeteria is activated. school and begin the rescue of two wounded students lying on the ground near the She isn't always sure what to say. "Hi, Dylan,'' Savage said. When the gunmen leave, survivors are heard fleeing. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. Still, Schnurr answered truthfully. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. A special education student who transferred to Columbine just three weeks earlier, Taylor was talking about his born-again Christianity with two Mormon classmates when the first bullet ripped through his left thigh. - How to get help also confirms a live bomb at Wadsworth and Chatfield. Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. Hundreds of teenagers sprinted for the exits. Dispatch Then he saw a head pop through the hole. shirt, students taking cover behind the patrol cars, Klebold walking directly over to the same bomb. and Harris leave the science area and go down into the cafeteria. Dan O'Shea, passed by the emergency exit that at least 30 survivors earlier had used to flee the library. "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. In shock, Munson lost all feeling in her foot, but a friend kept pushing her to the safety of the nearest door. The FBI one looks like: SHOT. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. Stephen Austin Eubanks, 16 in 1999. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. different descriptions -- the last being a white, red and blue striped shirt one killer shouted. He fled through the door with a few scrapes, bruises and a belief that Klebold had spared his life. 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. Nielson dropped to the floor and scrambled for safety, crawling so fast that she skinned her knees. The killers spotted Shoels, a football player and one of the few black students at Columbine. Smoker However, at 4:20, a noise often attributed to this yelling is from a 911 operator, and shows up at 0:15 in 11.29.25. "Wait, there's one more thing,'' he told Harris. Shots in the building. 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. The gunmen then turn their "I was so flat on my stomach, they must have been pretty good shots,'' Taylor said. O.K.? There are two other useful files that aren't necessary: Here is a link to my Audacity file if you'd like to listen to them yourself, and here is a link to the audio that I've put side-by-side after the shooters enter the library, with Nielson's call on the right side, and the background audio on the left side. ''. going to come to an end. Dispatch 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. and the shooters enter the library. Graves saw the mayhem and ran for his life. Behind her, the hallway suddenly turned quiet. Through the library window, the killers spotted a police car. 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. By Susan Besze Wallace and Klebold are in the cafeteria about 2 minutes. Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. caller tells dispatch. At just before 4:35, a male talks and says "Page Boyd," and you can very faintly hear this on 11.29.25 at 0:30. reports begin to provide glimpses of the incidents magnitude. While student Aaron Hancey, an Eagle Scout with first-aid training, treated Sanders, another student, Kevin Starkey, worked to keep Sanders conscious by pulling family photos from the teacher's wallet and asking about them. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. length of the front counter. the building. They may be thinking the same thing. alerts the deputies that the shooter may have a shotgun. GO! Klebold and Harris then pull their Attention, south units. enforcement officers on the east side of the school report noises and shots She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. Lt. Dave "Then, April 20, I was hiding in a cupboard, and it changed from how am I doing all this to why am I doing all this. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? Next to him, Scott curled in pain. reports that one shooter is in the food preparation area and that the shooter has 17 There's a very distinct difference between how the two handled [the massacre] that day. exchanging gunfire with Harris, Gardner calls on his police radio for additional Paul Magor, a Jefferson County Sheriffs deputy patrolling the south Jeffco call is received by the Sheriffs Office from the. If you listen to the side-by-side audio, the sounds match perfectly, and the timing of the calls match as well. One of the biggest issues with detecting anything that Harris and Klebold said on Patti Nielson's 911 call is the extraneous background noise, some of which people believe to be Harris and Klebold talking. Copyright 1999 The Denver Post. At about 11:19 a.m. a witness But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. Don't forget, he said, "Look at the n-word" or whatever it was he said before they shot him. He even lay motionless when a fleeing student stepped over him. Scott didn't know that his sister, Rachel, already had been shot outside the cafeteria. At Science Room 3, Sanders collapsed. Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. Sudoku advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. In 2011, a Youtuber posted "leaked audio" of Lauren Townsend (18) being killed with Klebold's TEC-9 as Val Schnurr screams, "Oh God! Beside In time, she says. Dispatch I laid her back down. Many Fellow students in Nielson's degree program helped, typing papers and encircling her in study groups as a form of encouragement. Searle reports smoke coming from the building. 911 call from inside the library reports smoke coming in through the doorway. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. Become a member to support the independent voice of Denver 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." Harris Teacher: He is in science room number three. Several seconds after this event in 11.23.11, the caller says "they just shot, shot somebody inside the cafeteria.". Teacher Harris and Klebold laughed. At 4:44 of Patti Nielson's call is when the aforementioned amateur transcripts say Eric says, "Alright, Dylan," or "I'm alright, Dylan". The teacher - who was among the first shot, made the initial 911 call from the school library and was huddled in that cupboard, closest to the shooters when they killed themselves - isn't sure when or if she'll return to Columbine. Deputy "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. As she tells the operator her name, Harris and Klebold enter the library and begin to execute their classmates. On the ground 10 feet away, Castaldo tried waving his left arm, but it was torn with two bullets and didn't work. Klebold and Harris made in their homemade videotapes, the investigation disseminating pertinent information to the initial responders. The terror soon would follow her inside the school. when he hears dispatch report that a female is down in the south lower lot of Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. At least 30 survivors fled through the library's rear emergency exit. Littleton Then Harris aimed his 9mm carbine at the doorway window and fired. I got worked up, frustrated." two-hour 911 phone call (from 11:29 a.m. to 1:24 p.m.) from a school secretary County Undersheriff John Dunaway arrives at the command post and authorizes SWAT Jefferson Could it have been averted?Five years later, nobody knows exactly why Harris and Klebold went on that murderous rampage. Patti Nielson is a woman with an outwardly sunny disposition. Phil Hy arrives on scene and begins identifying and Dispatcher: Rooms one, two and three. I was losing air.''. 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. Jefferson suspects leave the kitchen area. County Dispatch Center receives the first 911 call from a citizen reporting an Student Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked inside the library. Harris, radios dispatch with a Code 33.. the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be reports that one of the shooters might be Ned Harris and that he is The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. it ends before steven curnow even got shot. inside the library entrance, continues her phone contact with the Jefferson is writing a speeding ticket on West Bowles Avenue, just west of Pierce Street, There were flashbacks. on the Internet. tape from the library records the sound of many gunshots being fired during this Harris rattled off 10 shots at the deputy with his 9mm carbine. But I don't want to impose. A witness Denver's independent source of Kevin Walker, positioned at a southern point in the student parking lot, is able is last seen running back down the north hall to the west in the direction of It always distinguishes between Eric and Dylan. "The cops will come.''. pipe bomb is thrown over the railing from the hallway above and into the "I was thinking I was going to die, trying to take the biggest breaths I could take. County SWAT commander Lt. Terry Manwaring, on his way to the high school, orders assists Deputy Magor. In the library, the two teenagers had killed 10 classmates and wounded at least nine others. 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. But some Columbine parents believe authorities ignored prior warning signsthat the massacre might have been prevented. I felt something in my shoulder, Nielson said, her voice quavering slightly, I got grazed by a bullet.. Harris I decided, she said, that I was not going to let those hateful boys ruin my life.. Student "I got up to him and saw he was shot in the chest,'' Phelan said. Both killers moved on, leaving Scott unharmed. leave the library. Columbine Library Audio (partially lost 911 call of Colorado school shooting; 1999), Lost advertising and interstitial material, http://acolumbinesite.com/victim/injured4.php#patti, http://acolumbinesite.com/911/minutes.txt, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#Perpetrators, https://lostmediawiki.com/index.php?title=Columbine_Library_Audio_(partially_lost_911_call_of_Colorado_school_shooting;_1999)&oldid=200231. I think I want to have it behind. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' shooter in the area. student can be seen on the cafeteria videotape crawling out of the cafeteria Dispatch Broncos The tapes where things were "spelled out" for us in reagrds to what dylan and eric were saying was such a stretch. It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. Still, Kastle was convinced the killers hadn't seen him yet. I question that. Yeah, I guess I can try to go, but hes right outside that door. At around four minutes and twenty seconds into the call, a large explosion erupts from Nielson's end of the line. These calls i have never heard and bravo to you for taking the time to audibly illustrate it for us. windows near the cafeteria. It was the Columbine rescue televised around the world. This corresponds to 0:07 of 11.30.13. When the makeshift bombs failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold approached the building with four different guns and numerous pipe bombs. 40.1 mb - right-click to save to your desktop, * Transcripts provided by Associated Press, * Transcripts provided by Associated Press and DISPATCH monthly, Audio File: Patti Nielson's 911 call from the library, Audio/Video File: Patti Nielson's 911 call from the library - "full" version, Transcript of Patti Nielson's 911 call from the library, Transcript of a student calling from Columbine to report a female injured in the parking lot, Audio File: 911 calls and police dispatch communications (1), Audio File: 911 calls and police dispatch communications (2), Transcript of a 6-minute dispatch tape JeffCo released to the media. A student The kids who are running with the shotguns also have Molotov-type cocktail bombs. He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. Yet library toward the west windows, killing one student on the way, before they. Jeffco Gardner, who is in the south parking lot and has exchanged gunfire with Eric She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. I'm working to get to April 21. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. - How to share your thoughts This is actually a 911 operator speaking fast and saying, phonetically, "Jeff's'n Coun'y Sheriff's Office, do you have an emergency? Dave Sanders, are attempting to find out what is happening outside the building. The 911 During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. But I still won't do it if it starts to make me crazy or takes time from my kids. Focusing was a challenge. custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance Just try and keep the kids in the library calm. Law ''. I'm getting ready to pick her up. Before the rampage was over, Park was hit three more times. The gunmen spotted Mark Kintgen, slowed by cerebral palsy, and shot one 9mm bullet into his head and another into his neck. "He was conscious. Witnesses The fire sprinkler system It's incredibly difficult to listen to, even if you don't know the people they're killing or who's shooting who."[5]. ", which happens at the start of 11.30.04. later, Harris begins shooting again at the deputy. Graves, and Lance Kirklin, Klebold County Patrol Sgt. students and faculty escape the school to the south, they report what they saw I'm doing better concentrating. Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. He immediately is approached by a teacher as well as This article has been tagged as NSFL due to its disturbing subject matter. During Yeah, I still have a hard time hearing it as anything other than that. Just get out of here. - Columbine archive . The She finished out last year and she taught for the first two months of this school year before taking leave. (These instances are audible in the original release of the 911 call.). suspects both take a moment to drink from water bottles left by students on the I decided to use the extremely loud ringing of the phones in the 911 call center, which are so loud that some people mistook them to be fire alarms. Rohrbough, Sean Searle How Should RTD Deal With the Drug Problem on Trains? Deputy County Sheriff John Stone, on his way to Columbine High School, calls Jefferson out the east main entrance, to Littleton Hospital. Some people see it and think they are true. another student in the south junior parking lot. shoots down the stairs hitting Anne Marie Hochhalter, From the In time, she says. sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. After carrying out Scott, officers moved down the 22 concrete steps, where they found Danny Rohrbough dead. 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. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Ester of the Intelligence Unit reports to the southeast side of the school and - Victim funds containing enough explosive, student parking lots to sit in their respective cars, The before he is fatally shot. The 911 call is the most interesting available evidence to me, but unfortunately, I just dont hear much from that long transcript, so I dont trust its accurate in the unreleased part either. As she welcomes an NBC News crew into her home, she jokes about how the place has been turned upside down by the guys refinishing the floors. Stay down until the police come to you. Daily Crossword. Then they chucked more bombs. The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. A friend of the gunmen, Brooks Brown, also heard the recording (as investigators needed him and several others to confirm the shooters' voices). While I don't yet know who said it, it's someone in the 911 call center, since it's also clearly heard at 0:10 in 11.29.25. Dispatch side. A shard of bomb shrapnel flew into DiManna's cheek. "You want to ask why they let him go? When he heard the gunfire and explosions move into the cafeteria kitchen - where the killers had stashed a giant propane tank bomb that failed to detonate - Kastle ducked from the faculty lounge into a faculty bathroom. through the lobby. Oh God! She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. An example is at 1:07 in Patti Nielson's call, there's a loud gunshot or explosion and Patti Nielson exclaims, "Oh, God." advises multiple reports of shots in the library and multiple suspects with I found there were only three instances of the shooters being audible once in the library: Eric yelling "Get up!" One of the shooters yelling something like, "Hey!" Smoke billowed. Deputy Some say Eric was the quiet one, Athena says Dylan did much less speaking. leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins Gardner We're not going to go to the door. school custodian, after rewinding a recycled videotape, hits the record button Awesome, man!'' placing two 20-lb. Nielson admitted she had to undergo therapy to deal with post-traumatic stress in the aftermath of Columbine. Deputy Teachers I thought it was probably a video production, she said, so I went out there to tell him to stop., It was then she realized it was real as one of the young gunmen turned around and fired in her direction. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' the girl replied. are killed and 12 more wounded. The families of the deceased were given an opportunity to listen to the recording; some of them declined. Time and again, they were savage enough to spray a classmate with bullets, hear the moans of pain, and then silence the cries with a final gunshot at point-blank range. And I'm in the library. Denver Post Staff Writer, Apr. Patti Nielson, hiding under the front counter in the school library, calls 911 Seems like they were making the transcript off witness accounts and not from actual sound, which is backwards. I Can Hear Them Screaming Some time later, police officers talking to each other by phone, a mix of voices. And hey if it works why fix it? Dispatcher: Dont let him close his eyes. A few seconds later, Klebold is heard screaming for everyone to stand. Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. explosion in a field on the east side of Wadsworth Boulevard between Ken Caryl As far as the peakaboo/mom thing, I think you are correct. The 911 From under the table, the teacher could see only Klebold's black combat boots. school lunch tables. Others used hall pay phones and office phones to call 911, family, and friends. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Gardner has just pulled up in the lower south parking lot of the school with the Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? The other put his gun in his mouth. Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. Scooting along the pipe, Kastle accidently kicked another ceiling tile in half. Deputy Do you think the fuller transcript is legit? With more gunfire whizzing overhead, one friend, Jayson Autenrieth, pulled her to safety. 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 . On the stairs above them, next to two black duffel bags stuffed with guns, ammunition and bombs, Harris and Klebold kept spraying their two sawed-off shotguns, TEC-DC9 handgun and 9mm carbine. Colorado Attorney-General Ken Salazar said, I dont think that anything that law enforcement did was negligent, but added that hes still investigating whether the police tried to hide some of their mistakes. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. An injured student (John Tomlin, 16) asks the shooters, "Haven't you done enough?" hiding with 17 others in the schools kitchen reports what he thinks is a To start, I figured out that the released version of Patti Nielson's 911 call is 5:01 seconds, and the versions that have cleared-up audio are slowed down by around 5%. determined the two planned to shoot any surviving students able to escape from at this point. Val Schnurr (18) is heard pleading for her life as Klebold taunts her with, "Do you believe in God?" Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 2. A few moments later, Nielson retreats to a back storage area in the library and her voice is no longer heard during the call. - Join the discussion in Your Voice County Sheriffs Offices are en route. another student, on the telephone with her mother, glances up in time to see the How sure are you that this is actually: Thanks! The two teenage killers stood next to each other. Teacher on phone, overheard talking to students: Get down.. Stay down. minute. Magor, on his way to the explosion in a field off Wadsworth, is advised of a There was a five-minute silence. The 911 recording is currently in the hands of the Jefferson County Police Department. reports several shots fired at Columbine High School. Suspended out of sight inside the ceiling, Kastle listened. out to the, From "Peekaboo!'' Boom. While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. Then she was heard yelling at the students in the library, Get down! "[6] The audio turned out to be real, though it was eventually confirmed to originate from a rare German documentary about the shooting. Anyways. Alarms blared. He was with best friend Corey DePooter in the library when the shooting began. Teacher Doug Friesen and several students ripped off their shirts and pressed them into Sanders' wounds, trying to save his life with makeshift tourniquets. "Look at this black kid's brain! At just before 4:35, a male talks and says "Page Boyd," and you can very faintly hear this on 11.29.25 at 0:30. Harris Deputy Harris shouted. I question its validity for several reasons. I've got the kids on the floor. We went to the police twice.". Nothing mattered but getting out of there and getting back to my children." But Steepleton knew Klebold from time around school. "They said they waited their whole lives for this,'' Woodman said. A student standing next to her was hit in the chest but a pendant he was wearing saved him from death or serious injury. Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. 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 I told the captain, 'I think she's dead.' A teacher, Theresa Miller, spent hours on the phone with 911 to deliver updates on Sanders' condition. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. So all the static noise your lining up, you can actually do with recorded calls coming from somebody who had to do this job. Above the slain student, authorities believe they saw Harris and Klebold in a library window. Artista: Dead by april. I cant imagine! last day of his life, Eric Harris arrives alone at the student parking lot at Both Harris and Klebold use their shotguns, as well the latter unleashing carnage with his TEC-9 semi-automatic. At 4:53, you can hear someone saying "Alright", and this is the operator of 11.29.25, and it's at 0:49. 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. And I probably will never have an answer to what went wrong.. Those students are trying to save the life of teacher Dave Sanders. Press J to jump to the feed. gallon of fuel ignites in the area of the partially detonated propane bomb. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. Fire sprinklers sprayed. to watch the lower level main south doors of the school and the entrance to the Apologies for the long post, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. "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.
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