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. Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? side, approach the south parking lot. The mother of 16-year-old victim Kelly Fleming described the audio as "pure hell [to listen to]." I mean.. you could hear it all, just on the recorded call. 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?" 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. 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. Graves, and Lance Kirklin, Klebold Gardner yells At 4:44 of Patti Nielson's call is when the aforementioned amateur transcripts say Eric says, "Alright, Dylan," or "I'm alright, Dylan". Klebold walked around to Savage's side of the table. sleeve of a black trench coat shooting a. Klebold two-hour 911 phone call (from 11:29 a.m. to 1:24 p.m.) from a school secretary paged. "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!'' bombs exploding in the field along Wadsworth Boulevard are intended to divert, Harris As she got closer, Nielson realized that the gun was real and was going to threaten Harris with campus security. Daily Crossword. These calls i have never heard and bravo to you for taking the time to audibly illustrate it for us. Around the library there were more explosions and bullets. The first shots rang out at 11:08 a.m. After killing two students and wounding several others outside the school, the gunmen entered the building. Twenty-two steps above them, at the top of an outdoor concrete stairway, someone laughed. She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. 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!''. Alot of people make these assumptions of what they are saying but forget the time frame of the call.. caller tells dispatch. location at Caley Avenue and Yukon Street, Harris and Klebold go into the hallway and make their way to the science Two others, Pat Ireland and Lisa Kreutz, were too wounded to move. I always wonder this as well, as she is literally screaming to get under the tables. Fire Department announces that its command post is set up at Leawood and Pierce. He immediately is approached by a teacher as well as cafeteria videotape shows that, as the gunmen are walking away, there is a. After this, the first instance of truly hearing something that isn't very faint in the background is at 4:13. schools cafeteria. 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. to the student, Harris tells him to leave the school because he likes him. Searle reports smoke coming from the building. But some Columbine parents believe authorities ignored prior warning signsthat the massacre might have been prevented. "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. Outside the cafeteria, Rachel Scott, a student actress, was sitting in the grass and eating lunch with Richard Castaldo, attending his first year at Columbine after transferring from Catholic Machebeuf High School. 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. "Three shots rang out. area, is dispatched to the scene of the fire and explosion on Wadsworth 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. Dispatcher: We have paramedics, we have fire and we have police en route. Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. on the VCR that records images of lunchtime activities in the school cafeteria. Two library employees Awesome, man!'' cafeteria and direct students to get down. Teacher One The fire sprinkler system Dispatch Deputy You can hear this operator again at 4:59 of Patti Nielson's call, and asks, "What's the emergency?" In a room filled floor to ceiling with files on the tragedy, the Browns explained that they repeatedly contacted police and complained that Eric Harris had threatened their son. '', Four hours later, SWAT rescuers finally arrived. "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins It always distinguishes between Eric and Dylan. Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. It was the Columbine rescue televised around the world. 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. This is at 4:52 of Patti Nielson's call, and happens at 0:03 in 11.30.04. The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. Police command to officers:Have SWAT when they get to headquarters, pick a staging area down south , Dispatcher talking to officer who is talking to hidden kids on cell phone:My officers that are in the school trying to find the kids on the cellphone. Tell them to start yelling so he can find them.. As the One raised his gun to his temple. She also fell behind on her master's. The auditory pareidolia is real in this. reports that one of the shooters might be Ned Harris and that he is killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that Help me! Deputy For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. In 2011, a Youtuber posted "leaked audio" of Lauren Townsend (18) being killed with Klebold's TEC-9 as Val Schnurr screams, "Oh God! one killer shouted. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. out the east main entrance, to Littleton Hospital. gives the command post a description of one of the suspects: Littleton Paul Magor, a Jefferson County Sheriffs deputy patrolling the south Jeffco Jefferson What do you actually hear on the available bits of the 911 call? from the window. 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. Suspects An example is at 1:07 in Patti Nielson's call, there's a loud gunshot or explosion and Patti Nielson exclaims, "Oh, God." Security strobe lights pulsed. 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. 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. I wanted to say your dedication to putting this all down in an orderly way is really appreciated. This is because two seconds afterwards, at 4:19, Patti whispers, "He's yelling everybody get up right now," and repeats herself a couple seconds later. "As we crossed the open door, the suspect threw what turned out to be a homemade grenade. 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. Now the school was in full panic. She was in the midst of work on a master's degree. The "There's a nigger over here!'' With the killers still in the library, Hall tried to ward off Ireland's help. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Deputies inside the library entrance, continues her phone contact with the Jefferson It wasn't like 911, but we were using older tech. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Teacher 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. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Immediately, Nielson and several students retreated into the school library, where she found a telephone and called 911. In the neighborhood surrounding the school, people who lived nearby called the police to alert them to the tragedy unfolding. of the school, is evacuating students who have. I'm working to get to April 21. units. "Oh, I'm killing people. This page has been accessed 20,739 times. Law We're not going to go to the door. Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large Nielson dropped to the floor and scrambled for safety, crawling so fast that she skinned her knees. 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. Beneath one table, Craig Scott huddled with two schoolmates, Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter. Schwieterman, sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. "I'm crouched down. Kastle had swapped pizza and gossip with Klebold for years in their fantasy baseball league. coat. Maybe a couple more lines, but theyre inaudible. "John didn't know these two boys any better than any other kids in the school. But I still won't do it if it starts to make me crazy or takes time from my kids. Until I got called in to review a few training cases, and a few firing cases. Jefferson (These instances are audible in the original release of the 911 call.). 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. County Commissioner and Board Chairman Patricia Holloway. The gun is right outside my door, Nielson frantically told the 911 operator. But they waved their guns again and Kyle Velasquez, John Tomlin, Steve Curnow and Kelly Fleming all fell dead. What's also worse, is sometimes the linked lines, because the calls come in back to back, their seems to cause an echo on the lines, and sometimes you can also hear those calls, and the customers, softly talking as well. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' the girl replied. Email. 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. '', Beneath another table, a terrorized Austin Eubanks gripped the arm of his best friend, Corey DePooter, who somehow managed to keep calm. "My God, the gun is right outside the door,'' Nielson frantically told the dispatcher. But strangely, on the morning of the Columbine massacre, Harris warned Brooks Brown to go home just before the shooting started. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. The chaos inside Columbine was so great that no one ever may know exactly what happened that day. Walker, on the south side of the school, reports an explosion that blows out On the ground 10 feet away, Castaldo tried waving his left arm, but it was torn with two bullets and didn't work. attention to students inside the library. on the Internet. Dylan A shard of bomb shrapnel flew into DiManna's cheek. He appeared to be in shock. Moving from a small town in Oklahoma to oh-so-sophisticated Colorado, Austin Eubanks found it difficult to fit in. This is really great work! "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. But I don't want to impose. In the library, the two teenagers had killed 10 classmates and wounded at least nine others. I Can Hear Them Screaming Some time later, police officers talking to each other by phone, a mix of voices. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Harris The ground shook. 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. enforcement officers on the east side of the school report noises and shots We went to the police twice.". Walker. Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. ''. The two quickly became best friends, and Eubanks figured high school was going to be bearable after all. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it.". to report shots being fired outside the library. I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. local news and culture, Alan Prendergast (No you can't hear them during active calls. Creepy huh?). You had to have three people in the room listening to confirm what was heard, was said. Crouching behind a bulletproof shield, Denver Capt. The gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. Still, Schnurr answered truthfully. They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. With four guns, 67 bombs and two hearts full of hate, classmates Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shocked the world April 20 with the worst school shooting in American history. I pray they are getting help." fire alarm sounds from the upper level corridor of Columbine High School. A pipe "And boom,'' Kirklin recalls. 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. Fire sprinklers sprayed. Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. Patty Nielson. I think that's the start of my new year.". During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. "Maybe we should start knifing people - that would be more fun,'' Todd recalls the other killer saying. And I knew it was older because the phones looked like the desk phones of my teachers, when I was in high school. pipe bomb explodes, several students run out of the south cafeteria doors toward Barking orders in the stairway between the lower-level cafeteria, which was being bombed, and the main level hallway, Sanders led dozens of students out of harm's way. I got worked up, frustrated." Phil Hy arrives on scene and begins identifying and Teacher: There are about twenty to thirty students and faculty members there. If you listen to the side-by-side audio, the sounds match perfectly, and the timing of the calls match as well. Harris had taken off his trench coat sometime earlier, and was wearing a white T-shirt. But Ireland couldn't bear watching his buddy just lie there and bleed. Dispatch Do you think the fuller transcript is legit? As she tells the operator her name, Harris and Klebold enter the library and begin to execute their classmates. Repeat. The gun is right outside the library door. Magor sets up a road block on Pierce Street at the southeast corner of the After that, there's not anything too discernible in the last 8 seconds. Let's get out of here!''. 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. 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. After carrying out Scott, officers moved down the 22 concrete steps, where they found Danny Rohrbough dead. 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. County Patrol Deputy Rick Searle, on the upper grassy area on the southwest side Hoping a simple human gesture might stop the bloodshed, Steepleton peered from 20 feet away directly into Klebold's eyes. Dispatcher: Rooms one, two and three. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. After lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. speaks to one student briefly outside the west entrance of the school. The gunman turned towards her and fired without warning, causing bits of glass and shrapnel to slice into Nielson's shoulder. Dispatch Mark Taylor saw the two shooters atop the stairs, but figured they were firing paint-ball guns. '', Klebold shrugged. Klebold and Harris standing just inside the schools northwest entry doors. A witness 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. Students Kirklin turned his head to the sky and saw someone standing over him. She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. The 911 recording is currently in the hands of the Jefferson County Police Department. Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. They laughed about it. the librarys east area and enter the center section, reloading their weapons Bullets whistled and windows shattered. 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. What would you be able to actually say for SURE you can hear? In 7 minutes, 10 people I could see he was fiddling with the rifle, either reloading or his gun was jammed,'' Gardner said. 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". According We have two dead suspects in there. response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises "Who's ready to die next?'' Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! Deputy During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. Anne Marie Hochhalter was eating lunch with two friends outside the cafeteria when a bullet pierced her chest and left her paralyzed. But [Harris] doesn't. And I'm in the library. When the makeshift bombs failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold approached the building with four different guns and numerous pipe bombs. Schnurr had heard the result when Bernall professed her faith. The other put his gun in his mouth. I've got the kids on the floor. Dispatch later, Harris begins shooting again at the deputy. I question that. Last Update. Im afraid to go.. This happens at 0:46 of 11.29.25. , Nielson: He turned the gun straight at us and shot and my God, the window went out. Find contact's direct phone number, email address, work history, and more. One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. Based on Between Smoke billowed. 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." Hall's right leg gushed blood, so Ireland used his hands to try to slow the hemorrhaging. For some reason, the gunmen spared them. their injuries, Patti Nielson and Brian are able to flee into the school library When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. call from a Columbine High School student reports a girl injured in the south Realizing Blending They were playing God. - 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. - Join the discussion in Your Voice Nothing close to what I read elsewhere. Just get out of here. 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!" Magor, on his way to the explosion in a field off Wadsworth, is advised of a The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. Join the Westword community and help support View Patti Nielson's business profile as Teacher at Columbine. "In some ways I was a magnet to some people, and yet other people felt uncomfortable around me. agencies already are aware of the situation at the high school because of the different descriptions -- the last being a white, red and blue striped shirt Student Jefferson Above the slain student, authorities believe they saw Harris and Klebold in a library window. 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 kids who are running with the shotguns also have Molotov-type cocktail bombs. in the counseling hallway sees students in the north hallway running east Now Mauser was alone under a library table. Patti Nielson is a woman with an outwardly sunny disposition. Nielson, who suffered from a severe case of PTSD, refused to listen to the playback. Walcher A teacher Another thing that corroborates this is a call at 11.32.23, in which a 911 operator calls Captain Boyd, and he responds with "c'mon, page me, it's Boyd," and the fact that he's called implies that they've already tried paging him, with no response. A 911 If it is separate from FBI-If the FBI cant hear it with all their resources, how can you? Several seconds later, the caller says that, "that last one sounded like either a really big gun or a bomb." one killer told a girl beneath a table. At Science Room 3, Sanders collapsed. 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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. In time, she says. Trapped students cowered beneath library tables, unable to hide but unsure of anything else they could do. "Stay tight,'' DePooter whispered. explosion in a field on the east side of Wadsworth Boulevard between Ken Caryl But I don't want to impose. However, I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of your assessment. One Teacher on phone, overheard talking to students: Get down.. Stay down. 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. While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. 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. County Sheriffs Offices are en route. County Undersheriff John Dunaway arrives at the command post and authorizes SWAT disseminating pertinent information to the initial responders. When the gunmen leave, survivors are heard fleeing. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. [2] taken cover behind Taborskys patrol car. advises that the suspects are possibly wearing body armor. 20 Avril 1999. They celebrated it. 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. Lisa Kreutz had survived. Teacher: He is in science room number three. students in that area with him. Stephanie Munson and another student walk out of a classroom into the schools "Let's get down to the commons,'' Klebold said. female down in the south parking lot of Columbine High School. Denver's independent source of the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be Jefferson I cant imagine! Klebold is running behind them, but comes to an abrupt halt The explosion is actually a timed diversionary device. advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. For the second time that day, Kirklin turned his head and said, "Help.''. 1982 black BMW. (Sound of gunshots.) Hiding beneath a lunch table, Keni Dooley watched a gunman lob a bomb into the cafeteria and shoot it. The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. shotguns out of their bags. "We couldn't leave that little girl there,'' DiManna said. And I probably will never have an answer to what went wrong.. Dispatch The recordings, were impossible some times to hear. "I'm out of ammo,'' Hall remembers one killer saying. And I must say you did an awesome job doing, that most call center people deal with all the time. hear one of the gunmen shout, This is what we always wanted to do. This happens at 3:27 in Patti Nielson's call and 3:24 in 11.23.11. I think I want to have it behind. This time, it worked. Is there anyway you can block the door so no one can get in? "Hi, Dylan,'' Savage said. Smoker student Evan Todd heard a killer say. Thank you. This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:07. then turns and enters the school through the west doors. It was Klebold, wearing his Boston Red Sox cap. Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers.

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