A few moments later, Nielson retreats to a back storage area in the library and her voice is no longer heard during the call. Regaining consciousness later at Denver Health Medical Center, Kreutz remembered the pain of being rolled onto her wounded shoulder. Fire calls for personnel to stage at the scene. As she got closer, Nielson realized that the gun was real and was going to threaten Harris with campus security. of the school, is evacuating students who have. 16 Don't forget, he said, "Look at the n-word" or whatever it was he said before they shot him. Im afraid to go.. "He looked at us, and he smiled,'' Nielson said. Sgt. Nearby, a killer waved a gun at Cassie Bernall. Patti Nielson, hiding under the front counter in the school library, calls 911
Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. Dylan
But [Harris] doesn't. schools cafeteria. There were flashbacks. (Sound of gunshots.) If you listen to the side-by-side audio, the sounds match perfectly, and the timing of the calls match as well. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. Then gunshots and explosions rocked the commons, or cafeteria area, near where the killers had stashed a propane barbecue tank bomb, wired to a gasoline tank and surrounded with nails and BBs to maximize killing power. Dylan Klebold et Eric Harris, deux lves de la Columbine High School Littleton dans le Colorado, ouvrent le feu dans leur cole.Dans la lib. coming from the schools northeast side. Realizing
The Columbine Library Audio refers to a 911 call placed by art teacher Patti Nielson [1] as she hid inside the library of Columbine High School during the shooting rampage on April 20, 1999. The gun is right outside the library door. 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. County Deputies Scott Taborsky and Paul Smoker arrive on the west side of the
killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen
duffel bags conceal 20-pound propane bombs timed to explode at 11:17 a.m. chool
Deputy
Then he saw a head pop through the hole. Apologies for the long post, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. (Sound of gunshots.) It wasn't like 911, but we were using older tech. Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre) by Unknown. 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. "And boom,'' Kirklin recalls. Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. The same loud noise can be heard on 11.23.11 at 1:03, with sounds of people reacting to it. The fire sprinkler system
I grabbed him by the ankles and told him, 'We're getting you out of here.' Denver's independent source of Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. "I closed my eyes and pretended I was dead, but every time I heard a gunshot my body would jump. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. But the call, on recording, picked up all the static noise of the center, other calls being taken, hearing myself asking somebody to close their line to take their breaks. Many tried to shield themselves with tipped chairs. A shotgun fired and hit Townsend, Kreutz, Schnurr and Park. Gardner has just pulled up in the lower south parking lot of the school with the
A student
and Klebold walk into the school library. Byerly reports shots fired on the east side of the building. north main hallway. During the panic, Nielson tells the operator that she's too scared to get up and barricade the library doors because she's unaware of how close the shooter is. The fireball scorched the ceiling and blew out tiles. They were playing God. Two janitors locked themselves in a kitchen refrigerator, and another 20 students, teachers and cooks crammed into a pantry. Harris and Klebold laughed. Ken
Creepy huh?). Im going to give this a proper read. Were waiting to clear those . Seems like they were making the transcript off witness accounts and not from actual sound, which is backwards. At one point she says she has to put the phone down and she does. Oh God! positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims
She was raising three children, one still in diapers. "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. Email. Deputy
The 911
bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the
its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that
The next audio happens directly after this, at 4:51 of Patti Nielson's call, and an operator clearly says "get under the desk, okay?" Anyways. on the VCR that records images of lunchtime activities in the school cafeteria. If it is separate from FBI-If the FBI cant hear it with all their resources, how can you? Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. A teacher
In 7 minutes, 10 people
location at Caley Avenue and Yukon Street, Harris and Klebold go into the hallway and make their way to the science
Sgt. reports that Denver Police Department personnel are at the shed on the west side
Patti Nielson begins to recite the Lord's Prayer while the operator encourages her to be quiet. Patricia (Patti) Nielson is working as a hall monitor when she hears a commotion
Dispatcher: O.K. Now Mauser was alone under a library table. He survived. She also fell behind on her master's. units. It was an older building. more pipe bombs are thrown into the cafeteria from the library hallway a floor
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. Good research. Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. just
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. Without breaking eye contact, Klebold raised his sawed-off shotgun. Ester of the Intelligence Unit reports to the southeast side of the school and
to watch the lower level main south doors of the school and the entrance to the
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. The gunmen then turn their
Dispatcher: Rooms one, two and three. At about 4:17 in Patti Nielson's call, we can hear some yelling in the background, which is definitely from one of the shooters. A 911
"I'm out of ammo,'' Hall remembers one killer saying. lower parking lot of the high school. Law
Just get out of here. one killer told a girl beneath a table. County Dispatch Center receives the first 911 call from a citizen reporting an
For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Daily Crossword. Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. Next to him, Scott curled in pain. A YouTube video shows a reconstruction[7] of how the 911 call transpired. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. "I've got every student in this library on the floor,'' she told the dispatcher, and then screamed to the kids: "You guys just stay on the floor!'' "He shot me in the face.''. The
After
24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. sleeve of a black trench coat shooting a. Klebold
to the student, Harris tells him to leave the school because he likes him. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? Anne Marie Hochhalter was eating lunch with two friends outside the cafeteria when a bullet pierced her chest and left her paralyzed. Behind her, the gunmen rattled off six shots. When the gunmen leave, survivors are heard fleeing. Like, say there were no transcript available and youd never heard it before. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. Scooting along the pipe, Kastle accidently kicked another ceiling tile in half. Officer to teacher: We dont have anybody in custody. Suddenly bullets hit Scott. - How to get help Deputy
He fled through the door with a few scrapes, bruises and a belief that Klebold had spared his life. I cant imagine! Join the Westword community and help support "OK, I don't think I'm going to go out there. Many of these. Thinking that the student was filming a video for class, Nielson began to walk toward the entrance in order to confront him. and Klebold walk toward the food serving line in the cafeteria area. And I must say you did an awesome job doing, that most call center people deal with all the time. Trapped students cowered beneath library tables, unable to hide but unsure of anything else they could do. When I heard of this being a theory on the patti call, I listened and heard right away some things were those echos. I mean.. you could hear it all, just on the recorded call. 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. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' the girl replied. In 2011, a Youtuber posted "leaked audio" of Lauren Townsend (18) being killed with Klebold's TEC-9 as Val Schnurr screams, "Oh God! The deputy rolled out of his patrol car. Many
The two killers reached the middle of the library. Why can't I just take care of my kids? Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. SWAT team commander Manwaring arrives at Pierce and Leawood and advises dispatch
cafeteria. At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. leave the library. 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). This time, it worked. 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. Could it have been averted?Five years later, nobody knows exactly why Harris and Klebold went on that murderous rampage. "Let's get down to the commons,'' Klebold said. When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it." At around four minutes and twenty seconds into the call, a large explosion erupts from Nielson's end of the line. And the kid standing there with us, I think, I, he got hit. I think shes paralyzed, the
The killers spotted Shoels, a football player and one of the few black students at Columbine. outside on the southwest side of the school and gives directions where
up on the roof.. When I trained new people on the lines we would be jacked into the phone. I'm working to get to April 21. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. Theyve got some Band-Aids. However, I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of your assessment. The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of
With the trainee on the phone activitily taking the call, your there and can hit a button to speak, but your muted other wise. reports begin to provide glimpses of the incidents magnitude. Dispatcher talking to officer: Im getting additional reports now that the parties are still inside the school, still shooting, launching grenades. cars, set to go off once they go back into the school. Walker. Vince DiManna and Lt. Pat Phelan inched toward the west doorway where Harris had traded gunfire with the sheriff's deputy. videotape. reports several shots fired at Columbine High School. female down in the south parking lot of Columbine High School. Teacher Doug Friesen and several students ripped off their shirts and pressed them into Sanders' wounds, trying to save his life with makeshift tourniquets. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. And the comments on these YouTube videos actually believe its what they are hearing. Graves saw the mayhem and ran for his life. the ballfields. Why do I have to do it all at once? . ambulances, responding to Gardners call for medical assistance on the south
shooting a rifle. Harris, radios dispatch with a Code 33.. After carrying out Scott, officers moved down the 22 concrete steps, where they found Danny Rohrbough dead. 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. Get down!. Hundreds of teenagers sprinted for the exits. 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. Harris shouted. A pipe
Sudoku Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. 11:14 a.m. and 11:22 a.m. Harris and Klebold leave their cars and walk into the
This happens at 0:46 of 11.29.25. But harm found him. assists Deputy Magor. Beneath the librarian's desk, Nielson whispered the Lord's Prayer. Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. informs the command post that bomb squads from the Jefferson County and Arapahoe
Fire Department announces that its command post is set up at Leawood and Pierce. For some reason, the gunmen spared them. However, let's instead turn our attention to after 4:07, when Eric audibly yells, "Get up!" 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. speaks to one student briefly outside the west entrance of the school. Columbine High School and parks his 1986 gray Honda Civic in a space assigned to
They were playing a game.'' When he came to, he found the fuse of a palm-sized bomb sizzling beneath his table. Get down! I've got the kids on the floor. suspects leave the kitchen area. Patty Nielson. side door. - Columbine archive This article has been tagged as NSFL due to its disturbing subject matter. They may be thinking the same thing. Between
that the command post and the SWAT staging area will be set up at that location. Dispatch
and help keep the future of Westword, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. Taborsky, protecting students who have fled out the west side of the school,
Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 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. We went to the police twice.". Denver Weather in the cafeteria realize the activity occurring outside is more serious than a
Yeah, I guess I can try to go, but hes right outside that door. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. And I probably will never have an answer to what went wrong.. Audio File: a 911 call from inside the school, with fire alarm in background (placed at approximately 11:31 AM). View Patti Nielson's business profile as Teacher at Columbine. Focusing was a challenge. I think I want to have it behind. briefly enters the side entrance to the cafeteria, Harris
We sent SWAT in with some paramedics and everybody thats inside the school is confirmed D.O.A. One raised his gun to his temple. enforcement officers on the east side of the school report noises and shots
I'm working to get to April 21. She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. Two others, Pat Ireland and Lisa Kreutz, were too wounded to move. 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. Dispatch
Theyve got the rooms locked up. It was Klebold, wearing his Boston Red Sox cap. Taylor was so scared of being shot again that he refused to answer when other students called to him. Other times, they pointed their guns at a classmate but spared him for no apparent reason. The kids who are running with the shotguns also have Molotov-type cocktail bombs. Nielson is student Brian Anderson. Sudoku and Klebold walk up and down the library hallway, seek safety behind
In actuality, a 911 call received from a student
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. I grab her. She sounded like a tape recorder stuck in fast-forward. radio traffic they are hearing and personnel are quick to arrive at the scene. He was with best friend Corey DePooter in the library when the shooting began. (They committed suicide around 12:08 p.m. and the operator had allegedly ended the call fifteen minutes earlier.). 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. Seth Houy threw his body over Crystal Woodman and whispered a vow to take a bullet for her. This is at 4:52 of Patti Nielson's call, and happens at 0:03 in 11.30.04. The other put his gun in his mouth. Most of the . spins hard to his right and Gardner momentarily thinks he has hit him. All rights reserved. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. Kirklin turned his head to the sky and saw someone standing over him. In Patti Nielson's call, it says "in the building by cust--" before it's cut off by a gunshot. 911 calls coming in, dispatch advises that a suspect has possibly left the
- How to share your thoughts Beneath a table huddled Lauren Townsend, Lisa Kreutz, Val Schnurr, Jeanna Park and Diwatta Perez. DePooter was dead. [2] The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. This page has been accessed 20,739 times. Rohrbough, Sean
Into the cafeteria behind them walked Harris and Klebold. While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. tape from the library records the sound of many gunshots being fired during this
, Nielson: He turned the gun straight at us and shot and my God, the window went out. '', "No,'' Klebold replied. "I'm not blaming other people," Nielson says. While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. advises additional gunfire being reported. In the neighborhood surrounding the school, people who lived nearby called the police to alert them to the tragedy unfolding. 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. Dispatch
'', Four hours later, SWAT rescuers finally arrived. Hiding beneath a lunch table, Keni Dooley watched a gunman lob a bomb into the cafeteria and shoot it. 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. By Susan Besze Wallace call from a Columbine High School student reports a girl injured in the south
Teacher: Yes, he is. She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. I got worked up, frustrated." There was a five-minute silence. 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. 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. Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large
"John didn't know these two boys any better than any other kids in the school. suspects both take a moment to drink from water bottles left by students on the
"That's when,'' she told her father, "I knew I was still alive.''. Now the school was in full panic. They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. 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. With two final blasts, the rampage was over. student parking lot. He picked up a chair and smashed it on the table. 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!''. of the school and they have long guns., A
in the counseling hallway sees students in the north hallway running east
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The terror soon would follow her inside the school. "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. The follow-up gunshot also doesn't sound any different than these "knocks," even though if, in fact, this is when Cassie Bernall was shot it would sound vastly different (considering a shotgun is significantly louder than knock on a desk). [3] The duo placed two homemade propane tank bombs inside of the school's cafeteria in an attempt to create mass casualties. I dont think Im going out there.. I'm doing better concentrating. 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%. Several seconds later, the caller says that, "that last one sounded like either a really big gun or a bomb." Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. their injuries, Patti Nielson and Brian are able to flee into the school library
shooter in the area. Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. Boom. Police officer: Yeah, theres a lot of screaming right outside their door. "You could. With more gunfire whizzing overhead, one friend, Jayson Autenrieth, pulled her to safety. Park saw Harris reloading. Hes bleeding out of the mouth. Dispatch
call reports that students are injured outside the school. Last Update. One
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Wednesday's training given by IMPD will feature a roughly four-minute audio clip of a 911 call made by Patti Nielson, a teacher who was hiding in the school's library, Green said.