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. Still, Kastle was convinced the killers hadn't seen him yet. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. "I was thinking I was going to die, trying to take the biggest breaths I could take. Dispatch While the burly weight lifter collapsed into Kirklin's arms, a quick series of shots jolted Kirklin's left foot, right leg and left knee. Patricia (Patti) Nielson is working as a hall monitor when she hears a commotion Kids under the table! Four I put her in my arms. Daily Crossword. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. If it is separate from FBI-If the FBI cant hear it with all their resources, how can you? alerts all units that Deputy Gardner is under fire and the suspect just ran into reports several shots fired at Columbine High School. hallway, She drops the phone and The operator is saying "Alright, I want you" then a half-second-long pause "to be as quiet as possible". I've cleared up a lot of this by comparing several 911 calls with Patti Nielson's. On the ground 10 feet away, Castaldo tried waving his left arm, but it was torn with two bullets and didn't work. Unless Eric is talking to Bree and Isaiah says "mom" simultaneously, catching Dylan's attention. County Sheriffs Office dispatch advises that there are possible shots fired "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. It was Klebold, wearing his Boston Red Sox cap. She finished out last year and she taught for the first two months of this school year before taking leave. leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. "Identify yourself!''. Teacher alerts the deputies that the shooter may have a shotgun. Maybe a couple more lines, but theyre inaudible. Nothing close to what I read elsewhere. Crouching behind a bulletproof shield, Denver Capt. Suspended out of sight inside the ceiling, Kastle listened. The first 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. another student in the south junior parking lot. hears one of the suspects say, GO! Anyways. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. of the school, is evacuating students who have. Ive got students, under the table. custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance Many Now it was real. Get down! Press J to jump to the feed. I'm getting ready to pick her up. Thank you. Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. Teacher: There are about twenty to thirty students and faculty members there. Deputy "We couldn't leave that little girl there,'' DiManna said. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. Less than a minute after she entered the room, Nielson called 911 as she shouted for everyone in the room to seek refuge underneath their tables. bombs exploding in the field along Wadsworth Boulevard are intended to divert, Harris 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. 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.. Nielson is student Brian Anderson. 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 . Boom. It landed about three feet in front of me,'' O'Shea said. web pages 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. roof, one suspect in the library with a shotgun and several bombs, and another Theyve got the rooms locked up. We have found so many explosive devices including several car bombs, things like that. 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. Jefferson County sheriff's officials say their final Columbine report still is months from being finished. A pipe There is no way its Eric saying "Peakaboo" or Isaiah saying "mom" on this call within seconds between each phrase. ", which happens at the start of 11.30.04. **THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO, JUST A REUPLOAD**Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJtexrf1xg call made by Patti Nielson from the library is terminated by the dispatch center Dave Sanders, still on the second level, turns into the library hallway toward He survived. Now the only sound in the library was silence - and the clinking of ammunition and bombs beneath the killers' trench coats. The 911 briefly enters the side entrance to the cafeteria, Harris Teacher: He is in science room number three. At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. After being grazed by a bullet in the. positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims agencies already are aware of the situation at the high school because of the A 911 Jefferson They laughed about it. He picked up a chair and smashed it on the table. The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. Dispatch Always tripped me out. Those students are trying to save the life of teacher Dave Sanders. Why do I have to do it all at once? Stay down until the police come to you. 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. Columbine High School. I have always wondered how much of the written 911 transcripts are merely from people putting down what they think they hear as opposed to matching up what witnesses in the library recall the shooters saying at various points with the tapes? Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. Deputy Watching Savage being released with his life, other students prayed the killing was over. Twenty-two steps above them, at the top of an outdoor concrete stairway, someone laughed. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Littleton Too stunned to stand, Castaldo was slashed by gunfire, too. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. north main hallway. Now the school was in full panic. Deputy "I did a quick peek through the window. Schnurr had heard the result when Bernall professed her faith. above. "He looked at us, and he smiled,'' Nielson said. Harris, Smoke billowed. At least 30 survivors fled through the library's rear emergency exit. cars, set to go off once they go back into the school. Hall blacked out. Hiding beneath a lunch table, Keni Dooley watched a gunman lob a bomb into the cafeteria and shoot it. 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. Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. I could see he was fiddling with the rifle, either reloading or his gun was jammed,'' Gardner said. Nielsen survived the massacre, but the library became a scene of carnage. Deputy Hoping a simple human gesture might stop the bloodshed, Steepleton peered from 20 feet away directly into Klebold's eyes. weekly ad specials from the denver post voices of columbine PATTI NIELSON Mother, Columbine teacher, library survivor By Susan Besze Wallace Denver Post Staff Writer Apr. reports that one shooter is in the food preparation area and that the shooter has 17 senior prank. Searle reports smoke coming from the building. Here is a link to the one that I sped up. Jefferson of the schools custodial staff and faculty, including teacher William paged. Sudoku is last seen running back down the north hall to the west in the direction of From under the table, the teacher could see only Klebold's black combat boots. She was teaching three art classes a day. Walker reports possibly seeing one of the gunmen through the windows on the Byerly reports shots fired on the east side of the building. "I'm crouched down. The first Thinking that the student was filming a video for class, Nielson began to walk toward the entrance in order to confront him. independent local journalism in Denver. Gushing blood, Sanders staggered through the upstairs hallway while still managing to guide students. And that was before two gun-wielding students changed her life. While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. I'm working to get to April 21. more pipe bombs are thrown into the cafeteria from the library hallway a floor "Who's ready to die next?'' This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. side, approach the south parking lot. Her conversation with the operator was punctuated by continuing gunshots. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Taborsky, protecting students who have fled out the west side of the school, Walker reports more explosions inside the school. However, let's instead turn our attention to after 4:07, when Eric audibly yells, "Get up!" Bookshelves and cabinets and tables blocked sight lines and made it impossible for any one student to recount the exact sequence of what Harris and Klebold did next. 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. Several seconds after this event in 11.23.11, the caller says "they just shot, shot somebody inside the cafeteria.". But they are having difficulty stopping the bleeding. students run out of the cafeteria through a side door. Vail's International Student Workers Feel Left Out in the Cold Over High Housing Costs, Meet the Woman Living in Boulder's Notorious JonBent Ramsey House, Help Prevent Car Theft: Let the Denver Police Department Track Your Stolen Vehicle's Location. Wadsworth. while Harris and Klebold are distracted by the arrival of Deputy Gardner. The 911 Boom. 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. Dave Sanders, are attempting to find out what is happening outside the The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. Deputy In Patti Nielson is a Teacher at Columbine based in Littleton, Colorado. Join the Westword community and help support 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. I think shes paralyzed, the The recordings, were impossible some times to hear. 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. Blending They celebrated it. Towards the 12-minute mark, a loud crashing noise is heard near the phone's receiver; Klebold was using a chair to smash a computer that was above Nielson's hiding place. Repeat. My situation was unique among the teachers, and I think some people were afraid they'd say the wrong thing. Law 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. Klebold, who wore a vest and ammo belt over his dark T-shirt, had dropped his trench coat onto the library floor. Fire Department dispatches a fire engine to the explosion and grass fire on You had to have three people in the room listening to confirm what was heard, was said. school and begin the rescue of two wounded students lying on the ground near the I mean.. you could hear it all, just on the recorded call. "When the year 2000 hit, it wasn't like a new year for me," she said. By Susan Besze Wallace And Im in the library. Dispatch Ted Mink, the new Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado, said that Columbine has indeed caused police all over the country to revise their tactics. I felt something in my shoulder, Nielson said, her voice quavering slightly, I got grazed by a bullet.. (Sound of gunshots.) "They said they waited their whole lives for this,'' Woodman said. student parking lot. ''. All rights reserved. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' Also, why are some of the written records of the prior warnings now missing? length of the front counter. Taylor crumpled. Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. Klebold Stay on the LineDispatcher: I just want you to stay on the line with me, we need to know whats going on. Teacher The first bullet shattered the door glass and thumped harmlessly into Anderson's necklace. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. the library hallway. reports that one of the shooters might be Ned Harris and that he is Teacher: O.K. - Contribute to The Healing Fund I question that. I grabbed him by the ankles and told him, 'We're getting you out of here.' sees Klebold and Harris in the science hallway. can see other deputies on the west side of the school near the concrete shed and Klebold stopped. bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the - Create a memorial page. attention to students inside the library. [2] The call picked up the deaths of all ten students who died in the library; some can be heard begging for their lives. Dispatcher: Dont let him close his eyes. When I trained new people on the lines we would be jacked into the phone. '', Beneath another table, a terrorized Austin Eubanks gripped the arm of his best friend, Corey DePooter, who somehow managed to keep calm. "Then, April 20, I was hiding in a cupboard, and it changed from how am I doing all this to why am I doing all this. videotape. This happens at 0:46 of 11.29.25. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. "He shot me in the face.''. radio traffic they are hearing and personnel are quick to arrive at the scene. Search the history of over 797 billion school lunch tables. There were flashbacks. Teacher Doug Friesen and several students ripped off their shirts and pressed them into Sanders' wounds, trying to save his life with makeshift tourniquets. The Realizing She was emotionally strained. 20 Avril 1999. In actuality, a 911 call received from a student Teacher on phone, overheard talking to students: Get down.. Stay down. "He wanted to kill Brooks, said Randy Brown, so we went to the police with that. We're not going to go to the door. The paramedic rolled her over and found open eyes full of tears. Jefferson We need police 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!" Tributo a Eric Harris y Dylan Klebold. Focusing was a challenge. in with 400 other backpacks and bags scattered throughout the cafeteria, the When the makeshift bombs failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold approached the building with four different guns and numerous pipe bombs. - Columbine archive 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. Vince DiManna and Lt. Pat Phelan inched toward the west doorway where Harris had traded gunfire with the sheriff's deputy. We sent SWAT in with some paramedics and everybody thats inside the school is confirmed D.O.A. Deputy Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. Stephen Austin Eubanks, 16 in 1999. one killer shouted. shoots down the stairs hitting Anne Marie Hochhalter, From the It was an older building. 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. There were flashbacks. "I looked up right into his eyes,'' Eubanks said. Jefferson Another and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. They wounded art teacher Patricia "Patti" Nielson (35) and student Bryan Anderson (17) upon entry. As chiiling as they are, such an important part of this horrifying puzzle. Deputy windows near the cafeteria. Two All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Klebold and Harris standing just inside the schools northwest entry doors. This time, it worked. 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). County SWAT commander Lt. Terry Manwaring, on his way to the high school, orders the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. And bullets ricocheted off hallway lockers. and the shooters enter the library. to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. 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. Dispatch later, Harris begins shooting again at the deputy. pipe bomb is thrown over the railing from the hallway above and into the Shots in the building. During that the command post and the SWAT staging area will be set up at that location. Call between teacher who is hiding with students and communicating with other hidden students in the science area. Oh God! Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. Hall's right leg gushed blood, so Ireland used his hands to try to slow the hemorrhaging. County Deputies Scott Taborsky and Paul Smoker arrive on the west side of the According I told the captain, 'I think she's dead.' Searle reports the man is still on the roof and has moved over to the north Dispatcher: Is there any way you can lock the doors? 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." I grab her. I dont think Im going out there.. It was super distracting at first, but it would go away as you adjusted. or experienced to Deputy Magor, whose patrol car is blocking the traffic on Graves saw the mayhem and ran for his life. Magor sets up a road block on Pierce Street at the southeast corner of the One Dooley sprinted for the door in front of the two killers. 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. Outside the school, more police arrived. 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. Sudoku During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. County Commissioner and Board Chairman Patricia Holloway. Gardner has just pulled up in the lower south parking lot of the school with the But harm found him. When he came to, he found the fuse of a palm-sized bomb sizzling beneath his table. However, I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of your assessment. I was losing air.''. school cafeteria. I got worked up, frustrated." school custodian, after rewinding a recycled videotape, hits the record button sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. "Maybe we should start knifing people - that would be more fun,'' Todd recalls the other killer saying. As she got closer, Nielson realized that the gun was real and was going to threaten Harris with campus security. Based on comments Nielson, the hiding teacher who made the 911 call, said, "They were on a power trip. And I'm in the library. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! Oh God! 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. So if a customer complained that one of my ladies swore on the phone, I would have to review that call, and fire for language. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. building. 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). 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. 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. Awesome, man!'' containing enough explosive, student parking lots to sit in their respective cars, The Dispatch Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. the ballfields. out the east main entrance, to Littleton Hospital. Time and again, they were savage enough to spray a classmate with bullets, hear the moans of pain, and then silence the cries with a final gunshot at point-blank range. She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. Fire calls for personnel to stage at the scene. throws something in the vicinity of the propane bomb. [3] The duo placed two homemade propane tank bombs inside of the school's cafeteria in an attempt to create mass casualties. 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. The deputy rolled out of his patrol car. Ester of the Intelligence Unit reports to the southeast side of the school and reports possible shots fired in the library. Then they went back and got Rachel Scott. . It always distinguishes between Eric and Dylan. to watch the lower level main south doors of the school and the entrance to the tape from the library records the sound of many gunshots being fired during this One witness says Dylan says pigs are here, another says Eric said that. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it.". Seconds Searle, outside the building, reports a fire in the cafeteria. The 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. inside the library entrance, continues her phone contact with the Jefferson I laid her back down. Upon entering the library, Harris shouts, "Get up!" to make an immediate entry into 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. and Klebold walk toward the food serving line in the cafeteria area. (Sound of gunshots.) Dispatch exchanging gunfire with Harris, Gardner calls on his police radio for additional I returned fire with my MP-5.''. local news and culture, Alan Prendergast cafeteria below. 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. From these recollections, a chilling picture of Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, emerges: These two suburban teenagers enjoyed killing. After carrying out Scott, officers moved down the 22 concrete steps, where they found Danny Rohrbough dead. reports a possible shooter on the football field behind the shed. And I knew it was older because the phones looked like the desk phones of my teachers, when I was in high school. deputies on scene radio their positions around the school, confirming that a "And boom,'' Kirklin recalls. through the lobby. Harris and Klebold laughed. Fellow students in Nielson's degree program helped, typing papers and encircling her in study groups as a form of encouragement. Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. . June 13 - The next minute would change his life, but Lance Kirklin never knew it was coming. also reports one person wearing a red and white shirt on the north side of the and were going to have another SWAT team do one last search of the school, because Ive heard two three and four suspects. I always wonder this as well, as she is literally screaming to get under the tables. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. 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 IE 11 is not supported. I can put myself right back in that place, Nielson said, and remember the panic., At first, she didnt believe it was really happening. But Ireland couldn't bear watching his buddy just lie there and bleed. the west entrance and the sounds of gunfire. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. "Stay tight,'' DePooter whispered. 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. Two janitors locked themselves in a kitchen refrigerator, and another 20 students, teachers and cooks crammed into a pantry. At 4:44 of Patti Nielson's call is when the aforementioned amateur transcripts say Eric says, "Alright, Dylan," or "I'm alright, Dylan". Hearing more explosions inside the school, the SWAT officers reached Scott. suspects leave the kitchen area. Various Reddit users have falsely claimed to have heard the full 911 throughout the years. "[6] The audio turned out to be real, though it was eventually confirmed to originate from a rare German documentary about the shooting. There was a five-minute silence. Others used hall pay phones and office phones to call 911, family, and friends. reports shots fired from inside the school. 1982 black BMW. Find contact's direct phone number, email address, work history, and more. The explosion is from a pipe bomb. Hes bleeding out of the mouth. While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. Two others, Pat Ireland and Lisa Kreutz, were too wounded to move. A friend of the gunmen, Brooks Brown, also heard the recording (as investigators needed him and several others to confirm the shooters' voices). She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories.

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