They saw Eric Harris at the top of the outdoor stairs, wearing a black trench coat. Deputy Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large Wadsworth. I think shes paralyzed, the Val Schnurr (18) is heard pleading for her life as Klebold taunts her with, "Do you believe in God?" There were flashbacks. 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. Walker, on the south side of the school, reports an explosion that blows out Daily Crossword. Deputy So he ducked into the cafeteria's faculty lounge. to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of "Maybe we should start knifing people - that would be more fun,'' Todd recalls the other killer saying. Teacher: He is in science room number three. "We couldn't leave that little girl there,'' DiManna said. students reporting a person in the school with a gun. This happens at 0:46 of 11.29.25. I grabbed him by the ankles and told him, 'We're getting you out of here.' 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 It's easier to have your priorities in order when you are faced with the idea you could die today, and you ask yourself have you done what you really need to do, or are you just flapping your wings?" Now Mauser was alone under a library table. 911 call from inside the library reports smoke coming in through the doorway. Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. However, I attribute this to some kind of transfer or hold, as there was a few seconds of silence, and the operator had been talking to other operators about calling someone prior to the silence. Paul Smoker, a motorcycle patrolman for the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office, We went to the police twice.". Searle She never saw the bullet that tore through her - or the gunman who fired it. at Columbine High School. The kids who are running with the shotguns also have Molotov-type cocktail bombs. Ted Mink, the new Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado, said that Columbine has indeed caused police all over the country to revise their tactics. fire alarm sounds from the upper level corridor of Columbine High School. I was afraid that they would see I was still alive,'' she said. The two teenage killers stood next to each other. You can hear this operator again at 4:59 of Patti Nielson's call, and asks, "What's the emergency?" Search the history of over 797 billion "When the year 2000 hit, it wasn't like a new year for me," she said. The gunman turned towards her and fired without warning, causing bits of glass and shrapnel to slice into Nielson's shoulder. Other times, they pointed their guns at a classmate but spared him for no apparent reason. Theyve got the rooms locked up. There was a five-minute silence. 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. Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. It was the Columbine rescue televised around the world. explosion in a field on the east side of Wadsworth Boulevard between Ken Caryl north main hallway. How sure are you that this is actually: Thanks! also reports one person wearing a red and white shirt on the north side of the Stay down until the police come to you. leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins But I don't want to impose. Daily Crossword. near a bank of phones at the entrance to the main lobby area. A few tables over, Dan Steepleton, Makai Hall and Pat Ireland feared the worst was headed their way. different descriptions -- the last being a white, red and blue striped shirt and Klebold are in the cafeteria about 2 minutes. Kids under the table! (These instances are audible in the original release of the 911 call.). Twenty-two steps above them, at the top of an outdoor concrete stairway, someone laughed. Boom. Teacher: O.K. Nielson: The school is in a panic. I pray they are getting help." upper level, southwest corner. ambulances should come into the area to rescue them. Smoke billowed. Without breaking eye contact, Klebold raised his sawed-off shotgun. Kids are screaming . Then she was heard yelling at the students in the library, Get down! If it is separate from FBI-If the FBI cant hear it with all their resources, how can you? hiding with 17 others in the schools kitchen reports what he thinks is a Hearing more explosions inside the school, the SWAT officers reached Scott. 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. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. It wasn't like 911, but we were using older tech. 22 Columbine Tapes Released - ABC News County Sheriff John Stone, on his way to Columbine High School, calls Jefferson and Harris leave the science area and go down into the cafeteria. Many tried to shield themselves with tipped chairs. Suspended out of sight inside the ceiling, Kastle listened. Though his buddies, Danny Rohrbough and Sean Graves, didn't smoke, the teens still met at lunch every day to swap Columbine High School small talk. units. Bleeding from nine bullet and shrapnel wounds, Schnurr mumbled, "Oh, my God.''. Creepy huh?). County Undersheriff John Dunaway arrives at the command post and authorizes SWAT Join the Westword community and help support "[6] The audio turned out to be real, though it was eventually confirmed to originate from a rare German documentary about the shooting. He appeared to be in shock. Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. "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. SHOT. Teacher We're not going to go to the door. This corresponds to 0:07 of 11.30.13. Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. Directly after this, another operator asks, "Can I help you?" - AP special section one killer shouted. Realizing It always distinguishes between Eric and Dylan. I laid her back down. exchanging gunfire with Harris, Gardner calls on his police radio for additional After They are in the science area in rooms one, two and three. Denver's independent source of Good research. "I wasn't going to know if I could go back unless I tried. "Full" Patti Nielson 911 Call - video Dailymotion its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that Harris Which would be what you were saying, playing back slower, and randomly distanced sounding from your ears. **THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO, JUST A REUPLOAD**Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJtexrf1xg Jefferson (They committed suicide around 12:08 p.m. and the operator had allegedly ended the call fifteen minutes earlier.). Help reached him too late. I think that's the start of my new year.". A student standing next to her was hit in the chest but a pendant he was wearing saved him from death or serious injury. "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. When I needed to speak, there would be what we called the echo. duffel bags conceal 20-pound propane bombs timed to explode at 11:17 a.m. chool The two quickly became best friends, and Eubanks figured high school was going to be bearable after all. the cafeteria after the bombs exploded. 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. The Columbine High School massacre had begun. shooter in the area. Based on comments View Patti Nielson's business profile as Teacher at Columbine. The paramedic rolled her over and found open eyes full of tears. the librarys east area and enter the center section, reloading their weapons Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked inside the library. Apparently a faculty member inside the school talking to police, describing the situation facing some of the students who are hiding and speaking to the students at the same time. advises that several SWAT teams are en route. and Chatfield Avenues. school and begin the rescue of two wounded students lying on the ground near the The first Her conversation with the operator was punctuated by continuing gunshots. 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. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. One raised his gun to his temple. The next bullet grazed Nielson along her shoulder. And the kid standing there with us, I think, I, he got hit. the west entrance and the sounds of gunfire. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. Call between teacher who is hiding with students and communicating with other hidden students in the science area. 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. Nielson, who suffered from a severe case of PTSD, refused to listen to the playback. Fire calls for personnel to stage at the scene. Teachers "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. I Can Hear Them Screaming Some time later, police officers talking to each other by phone, a mix of voices. response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises Kids! On the last day of his life, Eric Harris arrives alone at the student parking lot at Columbine High School and parks his 1986 gray Honda Civic in a space . Also, why are some of the written records of the prior warnings now missing? "I'm not blaming other people," Nielson says. Then he saw a head pop through the hole. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. another student in the south junior parking lot. Yes they did actually say those phrases but we don't have the full call in which we wpuld even be able to hear them say this. 5/19/2022 8:38 PM. Just try and keep the kids in the library calm. on February 7, 2022, 9/11 call from the Columbine Highschool Massacre, There are no reviews yet. 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. chemical storage room just east of Science Room 3, man on the roof wearing a red, white and blue striped Columbine Library Audio (partially lost 911 call of Colorado school They were playing a game.'' "Hi, Dylan,'' Savage said. "I realize she's shot in the head. Scott didn't know that his sister, Rachel, already had been shot outside the cafeteria. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. Klebold, who wore a vest and ammo belt over his dark T-shirt, had dropped his trench coat onto the library floor. 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. Jefferson They may be thinking the same thing. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. that additional assistance is coming from other agencies. 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). Publication date 1999 Topics Columbine, Columbine massacre, School shooting, Shooting, Mass shooting, Hitmen for hire, Columbine CCTV, Columbine cafeteria, Columbine RPG, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold Language English. Tributo a Eric Harris y Dylan Klebold. Dispatch I pray they are getting help." And bullets ricocheted off hallway lockers. 20 Avril 1999. Littleton Klebold stopped. Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! The tact team is aware of their location, its just going to be a while before they get to them. 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. patrol car, Harris shoots down the In time, she says. Both killers moved on, leaving Scott unharmed. It's incredibly difficult to listen to, even if you don't know the people they're killing or who's shooting who."[5]. alerts the deputies that the shooter may have a shotgun. reports that one shooter is in the food preparation area and that the shooter has 17 Moving from a small town in Oklahoma to oh-so-sophisticated Colorado, Austin Eubanks found it difficult to fit in. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' the girl replied. County Dispatch asks if any deputies on scene have a long gun (a rifle or ballfields. Schwieterman, "They would whoop and holler when they shot someone. attention to students inside the library. While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. I was speaking to him. Alot of people make these assumptions of what they are saying but forget the time frame of the call.. There were flashbacks. In the library, the two teenagers had killed 10 classmates and wounded at least nine others. Do they forget Eric had the exchange with Bree after shooting Cassie and Dylan says 'just shoot her' or do they just think the call is chopped up and edited? one killer told a girl beneath a table. Contact. Focusing was a challenge. Deputy roof, one suspect in the library with a shotgun and several bombs, and another Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. Park saw Harris reloading. agencies already are aware of the situation at the high school because of the Nielson and Anderson fled to the library, where several students had assumed that the sound of gunfire was some sort of senior prank. I returned fire with my MP-5.''. Under the gunfire, Littleton paramedic Jerry Losasso pulled Sean Graves, who was paralyzed, into a waiting ambulance. Seems like they were making the transcript off witness accounts and not from actual sound, which is backwards. Since the shooting, families of the injured and deceased have strongly protested the release of the entire 911 call, fearing that it would inspire future copycats. And Im in the library. "What are you doing? alarm in the cafeteria is activated. deputies on scene radio their positions around the school, confirming that a Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. schools cafeteria. advises that the suspects are possibly wearing body armor. I put her in my arms. Columbine 911 call -Why didnt she just LOCK THE DOOR! Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. She had decided she wouldn't graduate in May, but now it looks possible. Around the library there were more explosions and bullets. Theyve got him elevatedthe best they can. I wanted to say your dedication to putting this all down in an orderly way is really appreciated. DETAILS: On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. When the gunmen leave, survivors are heard fleeing. Klebold hurled a pipe bomb onto the school roof. With more gunfire whizzing overhead, one friend, Jayson Autenrieth, pulled her to safety. Press J to jump to the feed. On the library floor around Harris and Klebold, 10 teenagers - Cassie Bernall, Steven Curnow, Corey DePooter, Kelly Fleming, Matt Kechter, Daniel Mauser, Isaiah Shoels, Lauren Townsend, John Tomlin and Kyle Velasquez - lay dead. With the growing popularity of mobile phones, many people were able to place calls from inside the school during the shootings. Despite During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. "He wanted to kill Brooks, said Randy Brown, so we went to the police with that. Deputy 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. Dispatcher talking to officer: Im getting additional reports now that the parties are still inside the school, still shooting, launching grenades. I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. At about 12:15 p.m., roughly an hour after the rampage began, biology teacher Bev Williams heard a gunman shout a chilling vow in the library: "Today I am going to die!''. Harris Dispatch So all the static noise your lining up, you can actually do with recorded calls coming from somebody who had to do this job. "Look at this black kid's brain! Deputy "The cops will come.''. minute. Student She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers. A few seconds later, Klebold is heard screaming for everyone to stand. "I did a quick peek through the window. Awesome, man!'' Nielsen survived the massacre, but the library became a scene of carnage. The "full" 911 call of teacher Patti Nielson from the library on the day of the Columbine massacre. pipe bomb is thrown over the railing from the hallway above and into the advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. "That's when,'' she told her father, "I knew I was still alive.''. Nielson is student Brian Anderson. About 4 p.m., Denver paramedic Troy Laman was ushered into the library. Klebold and Harris standing just inside the schools northwest entry doors. Columbine Survivor Shares Story of Addiction on Tragedy's - Westword Dooley sprinted for the door in front of the two killers. However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. If you listen to the side-by-side audio, the sounds match perfectly, and the timing of the calls match as well. In outside on the southwest side of the school and gives directions where Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. An example is at 1:07 in Patti Nielson's call, there's a loud gunshot or explosion and Patti Nielson exclaims, "Oh, God." Anyways. Dispatch Beneath the librarian's desk, Nielson whispered the Lord's Prayer. Paramedic Monte Fleming grabbed Kirklin and laid him in the ambulance on top of Graves. 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. Teacher on phone, overheard talking to students: Get down.. Stay down. There's a very distinct difference between how the two handled [the massacre] that day. With two 9mm bullets in his left arm, one in the right and at least three others piercing his lungs, kidney and vertebrae, Castaldo somehow remained conscious. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Security strobe lights pulsed. Several hides in a nearby restroom, Just before turning the corner to go east, he is shot, Harris Dispatch The hallway, She drops the phone and But Steepleton knew Klebold from time around school. person in the cafeteria with bulletproof equipment and several bombs.. Paul Magor, a Jefferson County Sheriffs deputy patrolling the south Jeffco The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. cancin: erased. ", which happens at the start of 11.30.04. Dispatch 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%. Become a member to support the independent voice of Denver 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. "As we crossed the open door, the suspect threw what turned out to be a homemade grenade. cafeteria. Many Graves, and Lance Kirklin, Klebold 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. As she tells the operator her name, Harris and Klebold enter the library and begin to execute their classmates. And I knew it was older because the phones looked like the desk phones of my teachers, when I was in high school. Like, say there were no transcript available and youd never heard it before. She was emotionally strained. "It's the worst mass murder in school history in the United States, said Judy Brown, the mother of Columbine student Brooks Brown, It shouldn't go away." He even lay motionless when a fleeing student stepped over him. from the window. Now it was real. report 30 students have exited the school on the west side. 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. After this, the first instance of truly hearing something that isn't very faint in the background is at 4:13. Police officer: Yeah, theres a lot of screaming right outside their door. "He was conscious. 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. Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre) by Unknown. can see other deputies on the west side of the school near the concrete shed and At 4:56 is when amateur transcripts say Isaiah Shoels yells "Mom." This is very important to fix to compare the various calls. Transcript: Columbine 911 Tapes - ABC News Please enable JavaScript to pass antispam protection!Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser http://www.enable-javascript.com.Antispam by CleanTalk. '', Four hours later, SWAT rescuers finally arrived. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. Two janitors locked themselves in a kitchen refrigerator, and another 20 students, teachers and cooks crammed into a pantry. I think I want to have it behind. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Jefferson their cars, they have a clear view of the cafeteria area. After that, there's not anything too discernible in the last 8 seconds. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it." Do you think the fuller transcript is legit? 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. location at Caley Avenue and Yukon Street, Harris and Klebold go into the hallway and make their way to the science When dozens of students bolted from the cafeteria, Sanders moved to the school hallways to try to calm the evacuation. Dispatcher: Weve got a police officer on scene. Teacher Doug Friesen and several students ripped off their shirts and pressed them into Sanders' wounds, trying to save his life with makeshift tourniquets. 2. the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. It was super distracting at first, but it would go away as you adjusted. Dave Sanders, still on the second level, turns into the library hallway toward of the school, is evacuating students who have. Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. Deputy We can't answer why.''. He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. - Join the discussion in Your Voice Then they went back and got Rachel Scott. "You want to ask why they let him go? positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims We can hear get up cause they are screaming it, but they probably werent screaming everything, particularly do you believe in God? Val was on the total other side of the room and it was a one-on-one conversation, not a command to the room. Kastle had swapped pizza and gossip with Klebold for years in their fantasy baseball league. A pipe At about 4:14 in Patti Nielson's call, someone distinctly says "okay." Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? the library hallway. assumes the role of incident commander. — -- 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. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. Everyone who could run did. the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance "I closed my eyes and pretended I was dead, but every time I heard a gunshot my body would jump. Several seconds later, the caller says that, "that last one sounded like either a really big gun or a bomb." Students before he is fatally shot. They laughed about it. Ester of the Intelligence Unit reports to the southeast side of the school and Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. Eubanks was wounded with buckshot in his ankle and hand. Jefferson Denver Weather The The operator is saying "Alright, I want you" then a half-second-long pause "to be as quiet as possible". And hey if it works why fix it? In 7 minutes, 10 people Seconds later, the gunman found Taylor again, strafing the prone boy with four more bullets, including one that tore through his chest, collapsing a lung but missing his aorta by a penny's width. "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. inside the library entrance, continues her phone contact with the Jefferson Jefferson While many in this community resent the media dredging up the awful memories of five years ago, Judy Brown and her husband Randy are eager to talk about it. Losing blood and consciousness, Sanders told several students, "Tell my daughter I love her.''. And I must say you did an awesome job doing, that most call center people deal with all the time. "Who is under the table?'' to report shots being fired outside the library. Nothing mattered but getting out of there and getting back to my children." When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. Just get out of here. But they are having difficulty stopping the bleeding. Yes!! witnesses who entered the north main hallway from adjoining classrooms see She was emotionally strained. Lance Kirklin saw his friend being rescued. 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." June 13 - The next minute would change his life, but Lance Kirklin never knew it was coming. Teacher: Yes, he is. Dispatch "Let's get down to the commons,'' Klebold said. After being grazed by a bullet in the. This page has been accessed 20,739 times. Hundreds of teenagers sprinted for the exits. Smoker radios that students are saying the shooter is wearing a black trench Harris, throws something in the vicinity of the propane bomb.
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