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Dispatch In actuality, a 911 call received from a student 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. Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. spins hard to his right and Gardner momentarily thinks he has hit him. school and begin the rescue of two wounded students lying on the ground near the Harris To better understand how such evil could take root in Jefferson County, The Denver Post interviewed dozens of students, teachers, investigators and parents to reconstruct the way two youths, cloaked in black trench coats, killed 13 and wounded 20 before fatally shooting themselves in the head. She finished out last year and she taught for the first two months of this school year before taking leave. "You could hear most of them going over the top (of the Blazer),'' Gardner said. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Dragging the paralyzed student backward on the sidewalk, 40 feet to a waiting fire truck, the two SWAT team members, trailed by a submachine-gun wielding Sgt. Good research. Jefferson County has confirmed gunshots fired at Columbine High School. "Oh, I'm killing people. And that is definitely it. response to reports that one of the suspects may have left the building, several Fire sprinklers sprayed. 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. out the east main entrance, to Littleton Hospital. Those students are trying to save the life of teacher Dave Sanders. Schnurr had heard the result when Bernall professed her faith. chemical storage room just east of Science Room 3, man on the roof wearing a red, white and blue striped advises that the suspects are possibly wearing body armor. Without breaking eye contact, Klebold raised his sawed-off shotgun. Jefferson Student and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. 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. "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!'' Teacher: There are about twenty to thirty students and faculty members there. Awesome, man!'' Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. are killed and 12 more wounded. Deputy "I'm crouched down. Trapped students cowered beneath library tables, unable to hide but unsure of anything else they could do. He desperately hurled the bomb, but it exploded six feet away, stinging Hall and Steepleton with shrapnel wounds. Wow the hours invested. Just try and keep the kids in the library calm. Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. At 2:40 p.m., Pat Ireland summoned the strength to escape the library. I pray they are getting help." shotguns out of their bags. Littleton Jefferson County sheriff's officials say their final Columbine report still is months from being finished. At about 4:14 in Patti Nielson's call, someone distinctly says "okay." They were playing God. while Harris and Klebold are distracted by the arrival of Deputy Gardner. their cars, they have a clear view of the cafeteria area. Harris and Klebold leave reports possible shots fired in the library. I hear this, in order: -WOO-HOO! (From hall) -Get up! (Eric?) The first hiding in the cafeteria hears one of the gunmen say, Today the worlds Graves saw the mayhem and ran for his life. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. How Should RTD Deal With the Drug Problem on Trains? '', Klebold shrugged. 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. The fifth shot, a shotgun blast to the chest, finally knocked Kirklin off his feet. Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. Klebold and Harris made in their homemade videotapes, the investigation The fireball scorched the ceiling and blew out tiles. I mean.. you could hear it all, just on the recorded call. cafeteria videotape shows that, as the gunmen are walking away, there is a. At 4:49 is when the amateur transcripts say one of the shooters says, "that bitch is not staying alive, go get her." Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. or experienced to Deputy Magor, whose patrol car is blocking the traffic on Klebold walked around to Savage's side of the table. Gardner "When the year 2000 hit, it wasn't like a new year for me," she said. hallway, She drops the phone and "I wasn't going to know if I could go back unless I tried. At Science Room 3, Sanders collapsed. — -- 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. Thank you. 911 calls coming in, dispatch advises that a suspect has possibly left the Dispatch Seems like they were making the transcript off witness accounts and not from actual sound, which is backwards. reports that one shooter is in the food preparation area and that the shooter has 17 Why can't I just take care of my kids? She was raising three children, one still in diapers. Scott didn't know that his sister, Rachel, already had been shot outside the cafeteria. "What are you doing? Daily Crossword. Ester of the Intelligence Unit reports to the southeast side of the school and Littleton Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. Nielson: I cant believe hes not out of bullets. Seth Houy threw his body over Crystal Woodman and whispered a vow to take a bullet for her. The deputy rolled out of his patrol car. 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. Dispatcher: Is there any way you can lock the doors? Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre) by Unknown. student Evan Todd heard a killer say. The Hundreds of teenagers sprinted for the exits. 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. alarm in the cafeteria is activated. They may be thinking the same thing. Regaining consciousness later at Denver Health Medical Center, Kreutz remembered the pain of being rolled onto her wounded shoulder. Teacher A few seconds later, Klebold is heard screaming for everyone to stand. Dispatcher: Weve got a police officer on scene. Kids are screaming . Hall blacked out. 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. Crouching behind a bulletproof shield, Denver Capt. I told the captain, 'I think she's dead.' windows near the cafeteria. 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. Hiding beneath a lunch table, Keni Dooley watched a gunman lob a bomb into the cafeteria and shoot it. 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. I was speaking to him. They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. Klebold subsequently arrives at the high school student parking lot alone in his Become a member to support the independent voice of Denver Why do I have to do it all at once? Kevin Walker, positioned at a southern point in the student parking lot, is able A YouTube video shows a reconstruction[7] of how the 911 call transpired. Stay down until the police come to you. "She was lying in the grass crying,'' Castaldo later told his mother. 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. can see other deputies on the west side of the school near the concrete shed and the library hallway. 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. A shard of bomb shrapnel flew into DiManna's cheek. cafeteria area where it explodes. Unless Eric is talking to Bree and Isaiah says "mom" simultaneously, catching Dylan's attention. Boom. From the corner of his eye, though, he saw another girl get shot. I felt something in my shoulder, Nielson said, her voice quavering slightly, I got grazed by a bullet.. At 4:56 is when amateur transcripts say Isaiah Shoels yells "Mom." I got worked up, frustrated." students and faculty escape the school to the south, they report what they saw Deputy Based on comments About how many people? 11:14 a.m. and 11:22 a.m. Harris and Klebold leave their cars and walk into the However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. Would be interested in your analysis on the extra audio exchanged between Val Schnurr and Eric/ Dylan. There's a very distinct difference between how the two handled [the massacre] that day. And I knew it was older because the phones looked like the desk phones of my teachers, when I was in high school. One Scooting along the pipe, Kastle accidently kicked another ceiling tile in half. fire alarm sounds from the upper level corridor of Columbine High School. For the second time that day, Kirklin turned his head and said, "Help.''. "I got up to him and saw he was shot in the chest,'' Phelan said. But Steepleton knew Klebold from time around school. the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. 5/19/2022 8:38 PM. "We couldn't leave that little girl there,'' DiManna said. alerts the deputies that the shooter may have a shotgun. ''. But I still won't do it if it starts to make me crazy or takes time from my kids. Dispatch Denver Weather Jefferson Teacher: Yes, he is. The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. students in that area with him. I returned fire with my MP-5.''. 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'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. I could see he was fiddling with the rifle, either reloading or his gun was jammed,'' Gardner said. Kirklin turned his head to the sky and saw someone standing over him. 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. By Susan Besze Wallace Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. - How sure are you that this is actually: Thanks! Dispatch another student, on the telephone with her mother, glances up in time to see the 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. upper level, southwest corner. When the makeshift bombs failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold approached the building with four different guns and numerous pipe bombs. throws something in the vicinity of the propane bomb. "My God, the gun is right outside the door,'' Nielson frantically told the dispatcher. Searle Teacher Ester reports that Denver Metro SWAT has arrived on the east side of the school. later, Harris begins shooting again at the deputy. The gunmen then turn their 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. 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. 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. hears one of the suspects say, GO! Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large student can be seen on the cafeteria videotape crawling out of the cafeteria But they are having difficulty stopping the bleeding. 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. So he was shot in the jaw? I've got the kids on the floor. Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. Press J to jump to the feed. one killer told a girl beneath a table. informs the command post that bomb squads from the Jefferson County and Arapahoe outside the west entrance of the school. 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. Focusing was a challenge. I'm working to get to April 21. and Chatfield Avenues. She isn't always sure what to say. 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. that additional assistance is coming from other agencies. Magor sets up a road block on Pierce Street at the southeast corner of the the cafeteria after the bombs exploded. Walcher Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. caller tells dispatch. Dispatch Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. suspects both take a moment to drink from water bottles left by students on the "Peekaboo!'' the librarys east area and enter the center section, reloading their weapons Into the cafeteria behind them walked Harris and Klebold. I think I want to have it behind. I question its validity for several reasons. 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. Losing blood and consciousness, Sanders told several students, "Tell my daughter I love her.''. in the cafeteria realize the activity occurring outside is more serious than a One girl, facedown, was warm. An injured student (John Tomlin, 16) asks the shooters, "Haven't you done enough?" 40.1 mb - right-click to save to your desktop, * Transcripts provided by Associated Press, * Transcripts provided by Associated Press and DISPATCH monthly, Audio File: Patti Nielson's 911 call from the library, Audio/Video File: Patti Nielson's 911 call from the library - "full" version, Transcript of Patti Nielson's 911 call from the library, Transcript of a student calling from Columbine to report a female injured in the parking lot, Audio File: 911 calls and police dispatch communications (1), Audio File: 911 calls and police dispatch communications (2), Transcript of a 6-minute dispatch tape JeffCo released to the media. From 20 feet away, Klebold pointed his gun at Kastle. sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. Officer to teacher: We dont have anybody in custody. Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. exchanging gunfire with Harris, Gardner calls on his police radio for additional Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Help me! 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. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. (No you can't hear them during active calls. in with 400 other backpacks and bags scattered throughout the cafeteria, the 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. "Look at this black kid's brain! With two final blasts, the rampage was over. before he is fatally shot. County Dispatch asks if any deputies on scene have a long gun (a rifle or Boom. Apologies for the long post, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. "John didn't know these two boys any better than any other kids in the school. taken cover behind Taborskys patrol car. Various Reddit users have falsely claimed to have heard the full 911 throughout the years. The gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. to watch the lower level main south doors of the school and the entrance to the Patti Nielson is a woman with an outwardly sunny disposition. Kastle had swapped pizza and gossip with Klebold for years in their fantasy baseball league. Search the history of over 797 billion lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. A student paramedics transport student Stephanie Munson, shot in the ankle while escaping 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. Klebold, who wore a vest and ammo belt over his dark T-shirt, had dropped his trench coat onto the library floor. Sudoku When I trained new people on the lines we would be jacked into the phone. "Yes, my mom and dad brought me up that way,'' Schnurr replied. 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. Above the slain student, authorities believe they saw Harris and Klebold in a library window. Harris, radios dispatch with a Code 33.. two-hour 911 phone call (from 11:29 a.m. to 1:24 p.m.) from a school secretary "I was so flat on my stomach, they must have been pretty good shots,'' Taylor said. Gardner has just pulled up in the lower south parking lot of the school with the Dispatch We sent SWAT in with some paramedics and everybody thats inside the school is confirmed D.O.A. In Smoker advises dispatch that four down on the west side need to be evacuated. Deputy Klebold "They saw me and didn't do anything,'' said the girl, who hid safely between cars in the student parking lot for 2 1/2 hours. - How to share your thoughts paged. above. Beneath one table, Craig Scott huddled with two schoolmates, Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter. ambulances, responding to Gardners call for medical assistance on the south 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. Oh God! Let's get out of here!''. Now the only sound in the library was silence - and the clinking of ammunition and bombs beneath the killers' trench coats. The gun is right outside the library door. This time, it worked. hear one of the gunmen shout, This is what we always wanted to do. REB! Whereas the other one has things like Stop your bitching! Realizing Columbine High School. and Klebold are in the cafeteria about 2 minutes. The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. Anyways. 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. sleeve of a black trench coat shooting a. Klebold Ken radio traffic they are hearing and personnel are quick to arrive at the scene. I'm working to get to April 21. But strangely, on the morning of the Columbine massacre, Harris warned Brooks Brown to go home just before the shooting started. alerts all units that Deputy Gardner is under fire and the suspect just ran into Nielson, who suffered from a severe case of PTSD, refused to listen to the playback. bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the Searle, outside the building, reports a fire in the cafeteria. 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. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. 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. Beneath the librarian's desk, Nielson whispered the Lord's Prayer. The 90-minute tapes released in Littleton, Colo., have been edited and do not include the complete 26-minute call placed by teacher Patti Nielson from the library, where most of the victims were killed. Outside the school, more police arrived. reports shots fired from inside the school. Nielsen survived the massacre, but the library became a scene of carnage. disseminating pertinent information to the initial responders. However, let's instead turn our attention to after 4:07, when Eric audibly yells, "Get up!" 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. Bullets whistled and windows shattered. different descriptions -- the last being a white, red and blue striped shirt "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. "When the year 2000 hit, it wasn't like a new year for me," she said. announces that possible hand-grenades have been detonated at the school. 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. We need police here. library toward the west windows, killing one student on the way, before they. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. The other put his gun in his mouth. report 30 students have exited the school on the west side. I laid her back down. What do you actually hear on the available bits of the 911 call? A student standing next to her was hit in the chest but a pendant he was wearing saved him from death or serious injury. school lunch tables. Harris, Dylan The mother of 16-year-old victim Kelly Fleming described the audio as "pure hell [to listen to]." Nielson and Anderson fled to the library, where several students had assumed that the sound of gunfire was some sort of senior prank. the ballfields. up on the roof.. 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). 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. While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. The "full" 911 call of teacher Patti Nielson from the library on the day of the Columbine massacre. The chaos inside Columbine was so great that no one ever may know exactly what happened that day. Broncos Two Around the library there were more explosions and bullets. Sudoku She was in the midst of work on a master's degree. containing enough explosive, student parking lots to sit in their respective cars, The You can hear just after the gunshot the same operator in the same call ask "where, where is that?". 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 . What would you be able to actually say for SURE you can hear? The answer that proves that it lines up, aside from the background phone ringing, is a woman who starts talking at 0:11 in Patti Nielson's call, and it lines up exactly with the 911 operator at 0:08 in 11.23.11, who, on Patti Nielson's call, says "Kat, she's got shots being--" before being cut off by Nielson. 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. 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. agencies already are aware of the situation at the high school because of the Next to him, Scott curled in pain. Like, say there were no transcript available and youd never heard it before. "Who is under the table?'' Klebold [2] 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. Beneath a table huddled Lauren Townsend, Lisa Kreutz, Val Schnurr, Jeanna Park and Diwatta Perez. They saw Eric Harris at the top of the outdoor stairs, wearing a black trench coat. killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen Dispatch One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. 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. He appeared to be in shock. Lance Kirklin saw his friend being rescued. 2. schools cafeteria. After being grazed by a bullet in the. 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." Then they chucked more bombs. Still, Schnurr answered truthfully. Deputy In Patti Nielson's call, it says "in the building by cust--" before it's cut off by a gunshot. With more gunfire whizzing overhead, one friend, Jayson Autenrieth, pulled her to safety. I did an in-depth analysis of Patti Nielson's call where I lined up other 911 calls to see whether the audio was from the library or the 911 call center. cancin: erased. Walker Fire Department announces that its command post is set up at Leawood and Pierce. Copyright 1999 The Denver Post. "I realize she's shot in the head. Help reached him too late. Call between teacher who is hiding with students and communicating with other hidden students in the science area. Graves, and Lance Kirklin, Klebold 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? She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. just shirt, students taking cover behind the patrol cars, Klebold walking directly over to the same bomb. reports begin to provide glimpses of the incidents magnitude. assumes the role of incident commander. The terror soon would follow her inside the school. Jefferson I hope I make sense and I worked there a year before I moved to a better paying job. Jeffco -Everybody get up NOW! (Dylan? I pray they are getting help." Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call.