Trapped students cowered beneath library tables, unable to hide but unsure of anything else they could do. Boom. (They committed suicide around 12:08 p.m. and the operator had allegedly ended the call fifteen minutes earlier.). Theyve got the rooms locked up. Injured and Survivors of the Columbine High School shooting Names contained within brackets [ ] indicate the victim didn't know the person but subsequent investigation has provided the identity of the individual. I think I want to have it behind. They may be thinking the same thing. Nielson: The school is in a panic. cafeteria area where it explodes. Witnesses Teacher: There are about twenty to thirty students and faculty members there. The 911 recording is currently in the hands of the Jefferson County Police Department. Under the gunfire, Littleton paramedic Jerry Losasso pulled Sean Graves, who was paralyzed, into a waiting ambulance. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. placing two 20-lb. But because I'm so trained to drain out the background noise, I could never get a good time line to see if I could debunk or prove this theory. It was an older building. The kids who are running with the shotguns also have Molotov-type cocktail bombs. Four This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:07. The 911 "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. Schwieterman, Several She isn't always sure what to say. I question its validity for several reasons. "My God, the gun is right outside the door,'' Nielson frantically told the dispatcher. carrying two large duffel bags and Klebold walk up and down the library hallway, seek safety behind Nielson: I cant believe hes not out of bullets. For the second time that day, Kirklin turned his head and said, "Help.''. - Contribute to The Healing Fund As Join the Westword community and help support Patti Nielson speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference on gun control. Teacher 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. 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. SHOT. View Patti Nielson's business profile as Teacher at Columbine. Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. web pages At 4:44 of Patti Nielson's call is when the aforementioned amateur transcripts say Eric says, "Alright, Dylan," or "I'm alright, Dylan". Yeah, I guess I can try to go, but hes right outside that door. female down in the south parking lot of Columbine High School. Could it have been averted?Five years later, nobody knows exactly why Harris and Klebold went on that murderous rampage. - Join the discussion in Your Voice Law attention to students inside the library. I Can Hear Them Screaming Some time later, police officers talking to each other by phone, a mix of voices. Students arrive for classes at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. on Monday. The chaos inside Columbine was so great that no one ever may know exactly what happened that day. Taylor was so scared of being shot again that he refused to answer when other students called to him. Broncos Fire Department is staged at Weaver and Pierce Streets. windows near the cafeteria. I'm doing better concentrating. Byerly reports shots fired on the east side of the building. The first He fled through the door with a few scrapes, bruises and a belief that Klebold had spared his life. Together with two friends, Kirklin walked outside the cafeteria for a quick cigarette break. Also, why are some of the written records of the prior warnings now missing? Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. I cant imagine! They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. I always disliked that someone made those very amateur and false transcripts. Park saw Harris reloading. 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. building. assumes the role of incident commander. O.K.? response to reports that one of the suspects may have left the building, several Thank you. , Nielson: He turned the gun straight at us and shot and my God, the window went out. when he hears dispatch report that a female is down in the south lower lot of Two library employees Lisa Kreutz had survived. Dispatch Fire Department dispatches a fire engine to the explosion and grass fire on Apologies for the long post, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers. A student But I just want to be one hundred percent sure that theres in no way anyone left in that school. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. The tape of her call also records the gunmen taunting students, screams and gunshots. Artista: Dead by april. a danger, Sanders and school custodians Jon Curtis and Jay Gallatine enter the 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. In The operator is saying "Alright, I want you" then a half-second-long pause "to be as quiet as possible". Like, say there were no transcript available and youd never heard it before. My situation was unique among the teachers, and I think some people were afraid they'd say the wrong thing. Harris and Klebold laughed. school cafeteria. Lance Kirklin saw his friend being rescued. I was speaking to him. I returned fire with my MP-5.''. As far as the peakaboo/mom thing, I think you are correct. At about 4:14 in Patti Nielson's call, someone distinctly says "okay." 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. "They said they waited their whole lives for this,'' Woodman said. Then she was heard yelling at the students in the library, Get down! out the east main entrance, to Littleton Hospital. The recordings, were impossible some times to hear. He desperately hurled the bomb, but it exploded six feet away, stinging Hall and Steepleton with shrapnel wounds. school custodian, after rewinding a recycled videotape, hits the record button I could see he was fiddling with the rifle, either reloading or his gun was jammed,'' Gardner said. GO! Klebold and Harris then pull their The tapes where things were "spelled out" for us in reagrds to what dylan and eric were saying was such a stretch. Then Harris aimed his 9mm carbine at the doorway window and fired. Searle reports the man is still on the roof and has moved over to the north Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. She was emotionally strained. 20 Avril 1999. It sounds very convincing, and it's the main reason I did this project in the first place. Find contact's direct phone number, email address, work history, and more. hiding with 17 others in the schools kitchen reports what he thinks is a Columbine 911 call -Why didnt she just LOCK THE DOOR! An example is at 1:07 in Patti Nielson's call, there's a loud gunshot or explosion and Patti Nielson exclaims, "Oh, God." last day of his life, Eric Harris arrives alone at the student parking lot at In a stairway leading up to the school library, Sanders was hit once, then again, by gun blasts. shooting a rifle. Until teacher Dave Sanders shouted from atop a cafeteria chair, many lunch-hour students thought the noise in the stairway outside the windows was only a joke - a brick of firecrackers, maybe, or the long-awaited senior class prank. The paramedic rolled her over and found open eyes full of tears. It always distinguishes between Eric and Dylan. At 4:41 in Patti Nielson's call is when many amateur transcripts (the one that inspired me to do this project was this one) say when Eric says "peek-a-boo". suspects leave the kitchen area. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. 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. from the window. Teacher Several seconds after this event in 11.23.11, the caller says "they just shot, shot somebody inside the cafeteria.". Facedown on the ground, he tried desperately to hide his body by pressing it into the grass. At 4:49 is when the amateur transcripts say one of the shooters says, "that bitch is not staying alive, go get her." north main hallway. ambulances, responding to Gardners call for medical assistance on the south "Peekaboo!'' Jeffco It's incredibly difficult to listen to, even if you don't know the people they're killing or who's shooting who."[5]. gives the command post a description of one of the suspects: Littleton The old tactics didnt work, said Mink, noting that now, the first responding officers that get to the scene of an active shooter engage that shooter as soon as possible to neutralize that threat., As the finger-pointing continues five years later, Patti Nielson said she has finally realized she cant alter what happened that day, adding, I cant change whatever went wrong with those boys. independent local journalism in Denver. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Uploaded by Dave Sanders, are attempting to find out what is happening outside the "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. Taylor crumpled. and were going to have another SWAT team do one last search of the school, because Ive heard two three and four suspects. Nielson: Hes outside of this hall Hes in the hall There are alarms and things going off, theres smoke, my God, smoke is like coming Ive got the kids under the tables here, I dont know what is happening in the rest of the building. Deputy She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. and Klebold standing together at the top of the west exterior steps, wearing black trench coats and carrying a backpack and duffel bag, Students Daniel Now Mauser was alone under a library table. 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. Gruffer voice) -HEEYYY! -the leaked bit: oh my god help me help me! and shut the fuck up!. The are killed and 12 more wounded. In the neighborhood surrounding the school, people who lived nearby called the police to alert them to the tragedy unfolding. 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. Two janitors locked themselves in a kitchen refrigerator, and another 20 students, teachers and cooks crammed into a pantry. cafeteria. Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. When I heard of this being a theory on the patti call, I listened and heard right away some things were those echos. Dispatch Two We have found so many explosive devices including several car bombs, things like that. It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. They laughed about it. Dispatch Magor, on his way to the explosion in a field off Wadsworth, is advised of a 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. of the schools custodial staff and faculty, including teacher William reports that one shooter is in the food preparation area and that the shooter has 17 INAUDIBLE. The Harris Focusing was a challenge. Boom. The tact team is aware of their location, its just going to be a while before they get to them. 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 . Klebold is running behind them, but comes to an abrupt halt to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of DePooter and Eubanks were sitting in the library at lunchtime, talking about getting in some fishing after school, when art teacher Patti Nielson ran in, dialed 911, and shouted for everyone to . Klebold hurled a pipe bomb onto the school roof. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. Most of the . Smoker radios that students are saying the shooter is wearing a black trench two-hour 911 phone call (from 11:29 a.m. to 1:24 p.m.) from a school secretary caller tells dispatch. Bullets whizzed closer. Ken at this point. another student, on the telephone with her mother, glances up in time to see the Im afraid to go.. This is really great work! 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. reports possible shots fired in the library. I'm working to get to April 21. Dispatch - AP special section But she hasn't yet dealt with the piles of clippings and pictures and correspondence and teddy bears that overtook her living room and now live in her basement. 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. Harris and Klebold started walking for the library door. "That's when,'' she told her father, "I knew I was still alive.''. Taborsky, protecting students who have fled out the west side of the school, Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. call made by Patti Nielson from the library is terminated by the dispatch center She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. Now the only sound in the library was silence - and the clinking of ammunition and bombs beneath the killers' trench coats. At 2:40 p.m., Pat Ireland summoned the strength to escape the library. Harris, So all the static noise your lining up, you can actually do with recorded calls coming from somebody who had to do this job. At least 30 survivors fled through the library's rear emergency exit. Jefferson On the But five years ago, her whole life was turned upside down by a pair of violent teenagers whose actions Nielson and the rest of this Colorado community are still struggling to comprehend. A YouTube video shows a reconstruction[7] of how the 911 call transpired. Crouching over Hall's pained body, Ireland let his own head rise just above the top edge of the table. Vince DiManna and Lt. Pat Phelan inched toward the west doorway where Harris had traded gunfire with the sheriff's deputy. Nielson: I do not . I put her in my arms. Theyre not Band-Aids, but they have cloth to try to control the bleeding. throws something in the vicinity of the propane bomb. Denver Post Staff Writer, Apr. There were flashbacks. area, stopping in front of the Harris rattled off 10 shots at the deputy with his 9mm carbine. Graves, and Lance Kirklin, Klebold Regaining consciousness later at Denver Health Medical Center, Kreutz remembered the pain of being rolled onto her wounded shoulder. Sudoku But I still won't do it if it starts to make me crazy or takes time from my kids. While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. the building. Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. But Ireland couldn't bear watching his buddy just lie there and bleed. Oh God! a killer shouted. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. I never attempted to explain this before. Gardner has just pulled up in the lower south parking lot of the school with the County Deputies Scott Taborsky and Paul Smoker arrive on the west side of the Dispatcher: We have paramedics, we have fire and we have police en route. Ester reports that Denver Metro SWAT has arrived on the east side of the school. One of the faculty is injured; he was shot in the jaw. Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. Suspects Smoke billowed. They wounded art teacher Patricia "Patti" Nielson (35) and student Bryan Anderson (17) upon entry. However, this corresponds with the operator saying "alright, if--" before being cut off by the caller at 0:40 in 11.29.25. Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? through the lobby. REB! Whereas the other one has things like Stop your bitching! paged. 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. Patty Nielson. How sure are you that this is actually: Thanks! Patti Nielson is a Teacher at Columbine based in Littleton, Colorado. But toward the end of his freshman year at Columbine High School, he came across Corey DePooter a guy who, like Eubanks, appreciated the simple joys of golf, fly fishing and country music. Teacher: He is in science room number three. The FBI one looks like: SHOT. Littleton schools cafeteria. Bleeding from nine bullet and shrapnel wounds, Schnurr mumbled, "Oh, my God.''. The two killers reached the middle of the library. That's the reason Josh, 9, Elise, 6, and Mallory, 3, have had their mom at home most of this school year - not because she has fallen apart. Jefferson alarm in the cafeteria is activated. 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. coat. It was super distracting at first, but it would go away as you adjusted. Searle reports smoke coming from the building. spins hard to his right and Gardner momentarily thinks he has hit him. I question that. 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%. The first Walker. Stephanie Munson and another student walk out of a classroom into the schools In actuality, a 911 call received from a student Fire Department announces that its command post is set up at Leawood and Pierce. - Columbine archive I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. This happens at 3:27 in Patti Nielson's call and 3:24 in 11.23.11. County Sheriffs Offices are en route. while Harris and Klebold are distracted by the arrival of Deputy Gardner. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. "I got up to him and saw he was shot in the chest,'' Phelan said. The two teenage killers stood next to each other. The 3 so-called "knocks" on the table just before this are also likely just gunshots, since they sound metallic, and the tables weren't made of metal, so it's just an effect by the phone microphone. An injured student (John Tomlin, 16) asks the shooters, "Haven't you done enough?" Beside and the shooters enter the library. Another In shock, Munson lost all feeling in her foot, but a friend kept pushing her to the safety of the nearest door. since no more activity could be heard on the line. Nielson, the hiding teacher who made the 911 call, said, "They were on a power trip. "I looked up right into his eyes,'' Eubanks said. patrol car, Harris shoots down the The other put his gun in his mouth. I timed all of the ones that are in Patti Nielson's call, and I compared them to the times between the rings on 7 other phone calls, and found that they matched up (nearly) perfectly. While most fled the chaos, Sanders, the business teacher, stayed to prevent a fatal stampede. "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. A teacher Tributo a Eric Harris y Dylan Klebold. Do you think the fuller transcript is legit? Jefferson It was Klebold, wearing his Boston Red Sox cap. She was teaching three art classes a day. 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. Smoker fires three rounds at him and the gunman disappears "He was conscious. Repeat. But Steepleton knew Klebold from time around school. "Stay tight,'' DePooter whispered. and Klebold walk toward the food serving line in the cafeteria area. shoots down the stairs hitting Anne Marie Hochhalter, From the 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. During With Harris and Klebold out of the library, someone beneath a table shouted, "They're gone! side. 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." A big question you might have now is "if Patti Nielson's call started at 11.25.04, how is it possible that the call at 11.23.11 is able to be present fully?" Teacher After that, there's not anything too discernible in the last 8 seconds. Outside the school's west exit, where Rachel Scott lay dead and Richard Castaldo was crippled, Eric Harris spotted Jefferson County sheriff's Deputy Neil Gardner, the school resource officer, in the Columbine parking lot. Focusing was a challenge. caliber.. "I'm crouched down. Harris Dispatch ''. There is no way its Eric saying "Peakaboo" or Isaiah saying "mom" on this call within seconds between each phrase. Dispatch "I'm out of ammo,'' Hall remembers one killer saying. 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. The deputy rolled out of his patrol car. Before the rampage was over, Park was hit three more times. Patti Nielson is a woman with an outwardly sunny disposition. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. But I don't want to impose. O.K.? Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. Become a member to support the independent voice of Denver Daily Crossword. I pray they are getting help." The two quickly became best friends, and Eubanks figured high school was going to be bearable after all. Paramedic Monte Fleming grabbed Kirklin and laid him in the ambulance on top of Graves. Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. Thank you for doing and sharing all of this research!! Dispatcher: O.K. reports that one of the shooters might be Ned Harris and that he is Smoker advises dispatch that four down on the west side need to be evacuated. The "that bitch.." bit always came through very clearly to me. "And boom,'' Kirklin recalls. Graves screamed that his legs didn't work. From the corner of his eye, though, he saw another girl get shot. lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. Paul Magor, a Jefferson County Sheriffs deputy patrolling the south Jeffco Nielson said she's become increasingly cautious, less trusting and more focused on her "real life." and help keep the future of Westword, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. informs the command post that bomb squads from the Jefferson County and Arapahoe "He wanted to kill Brooks, said Randy Brown, so we went to the police with that. Dispatch Hearing more explosions inside the school, the SWAT officers reached Scott. announces that possible hand-grenades have been detonated at the school. At Science Room 3, Sanders collapsed. Next to him, Scott curled in pain. I think that's the start of my new year.". There's a very distinct difference between how the two handled [the massacre] that day. Hall blacked out. "Run. The 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). Immediately, Nielson and several students retreated into the school library, where she found a telephone and called 911. She isn't always sure what to say. Maybe a couple more lines, but theyre inaudible. person in the cafeteria with bulletproof equipment and several bombs.. He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. 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. Walker reports possibly seeing one of the gunmen through the windows on the Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Gardner yells one killer told a girl beneath a table. After being grazed by a bullet in the. safe ambulances should come into the area to rescue them. I think that's the start of my new year.". Two others, Pat Ireland and Lisa Kreutz, were too wounded to move. Klebold stopped. I was losing air.''.

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