Next to him, Scott curled in pain. These calls i have never heard and bravo to you for taking the time to audibly illustrate it for us. Nielson: The school is in a panic. Paul Magor, a Jefferson County Sheriffs deputy patrolling the south Jeffco Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. 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. school lunch tables. Unless Eric is talking to Bree and Isaiah says "mom" simultaneously, catching Dylan's attention. are killed and 12 more wounded. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. 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. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? "Hi, Dylan,'' Savage said. She was teaching three art classes a day. countys dispatch center goes into an emergency command system as the incoming area, is dispatched to the scene of the fire and explosion on Wadsworth When the gunmen leave, survivors are heard fleeing. I hear this, in order: -WOO-HOO! (From hall) -Get up! (Eric?) As far as the peakaboo/mom thing, I think you are correct. Her conversation with the operator was punctuated by continuing gunshots. "The cops will come.''. They were playing God. "I looked up right into his eyes,'' Eubanks said. Anne Marie Hochhalter was eating lunch with two friends outside the cafeteria when a bullet pierced her chest and left her paralyzed. Harris, radio traffic they are hearing and personnel are quick to arrive at the scene. Nothing close to what I read elsewhere. cars, set to go off once they go back into the school. the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. At about 4:14 in Patti Nielson's call, someone distinctly says "okay." 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. Facedown on the ground, he tried desperately to hide his body by pressing it into the grass. Bullets whistled and windows shattered. Ive got students, under the table. Alarms blared. Sgt. Harris and Klebold leave My situation was unique among the teachers, and I think some people were afraid they'd say the wrong thing. last day of his life, Eric Harris arrives alone at the student parking lot at library toward the west windows, killing one student on the way, before they. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The person pointed a sawed-off shotgun at Kirklin's head. Through the library window, the killers spotted a police car. 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. Taborskys The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. Teacher: Yes, he is. Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. shirt, students taking cover behind the patrol cars, Klebold walking directly over to the same bomb. The first Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? 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 "When the year 2000 hit, it wasn't like a new year for me," she said. Jefferson The gun is right outside my door, Nielson frantically told the 911 operator. I hope I make sense and I worked there a year before I moved to a better paying job. County Commissioner and Board Chairman Patricia Holloway. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. Patti Nielson is a woman with an outwardly sunny disposition. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Suspects Contact. However, this corresponds with the operator saying "alright, if--" before being cut off by the caller at 0:40 in 11.29.25. Nielson, the hiding teacher who made the 911 call, said, "They were on a power trip. area, stopping in front of the to report shots being fired outside the library. Harris "I realize she's shot in the head. He kept moving. Harris and Klebold started walking for the library door. Dan O'Shea, passed by the emergency exit that at least 30 survivors earlier had used to flee the library. Deputy Now the school was in full panic. Daily Crossword. Rohrbough, Sean Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it." Tributo a Eric Harris y Dylan Klebold. 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. Shot twice in the left side of his head, Ireland dropped. I told the captain, 'I think she's dead.' Blending One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. In the library, the two teenagers had killed 10 classmates and wounded at least nine others. They celebrated it. He was with best friend Corey DePooter in the library when the shooting began. He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. "You want to ask why they let him go? Here is a link to the one that I sped up. Hes bleeding out of the mouth. As the Fire sprinklers sprayed. Sudoku 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. Oh God! Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. 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. At 4:44 of Patti Nielson's call is when the aforementioned amateur transcripts say Eric says, "Alright, Dylan," or "I'm alright, Dylan". While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. 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. Nielson: The school is in a panic. [2] The call picked up the deaths of all ten students who died in the library; some can be heard begging for their lives. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. shotgun). one killer shouted. and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. At least 30 survivors fled through the library's rear emergency exit. Help reached him too late. A 911 Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! This is at 4:52 of Patti Nielson's call, and happens at 0:03 in 11.30.04. Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. The gunmen spotted Mark Kintgen, slowed by cerebral palsy, and shot one 9mm bullet into his head and another into his neck. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. The terror soon would follow her inside the school. The tact team is aware of their location, its just going to be a while before they get to them. For the second time that day, Kirklin turned his head and said, "Help.''. County Patrol Sgt. I'm working to get to April 21. A few of what's translated here are right, but I really doubt anybody's going to hear "peekaboo" and the knocking on the desk, or anything specific like that on a lo-fi phone recording from 1999. Klebold walked around to Savage's side of the table. senior prank. Val Schnurr (18) is heard pleading for her life as Klebold taunts her with, "Do you believe in God?" reports begin to provide glimpses of the incidents magnitude. carrying two large duffel bags "That's when,'' she told her father, "I knew I was still alive.''. cancin: erased. Above the slain student, authorities believe they saw Harris and Klebold in a library window. 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!" Students The killers spotted Shoels, a football player and one of the few black students at Columbine. "Who is under the table?'' roof, one suspect in the library with a shotgun and several bombs, and another ballfields. 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. Dispatch 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. Deputy "And boom,'' Kirklin recalls. Lance Kirklin saw his friend being rescued. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. — -- 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. Klebold Suddenly Kastle fell through the ceiling, landing on the floor in front of a cafeteria exit. Hiding beneath a lunch table, Keni Dooley watched a gunman lob a bomb into the cafeteria and shoot it. County Deputies Scott Taborsky and Paul Smoker arrive on the west side of the call reports that students are injured outside the school. cafeteria area where it explodes. Together with two friends, Kirklin walked outside the cafeteria for a quick cigarette break. I'm doing better concentrating. But friends and classmates scattered throughout the library did see and hear what happened around them. advises that several SWAT teams are en route. Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. "You could. 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. The gunmen then turn their cafeteria videotape shows that, as the gunmen are walking away, there is a. Focusing was a challenge. patrol car, Harris shoots down the Teacher on phone, overheard talking to students: Get down.. Stay down. And hey if it works why fix it? And bullets ricocheted off hallway lockers. another student in the south junior parking lot. Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. Walker reports possibly seeing one of the gunmen through the windows on the She was helping write a new art curriculum. Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large Seems like they were making the transcript off witness accounts and not from actual sound, which is backwards. 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%. Oh God! Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. The deputy rolled out of his patrol car. When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. the double doors. I'm working to get to April 21. In 2011, a Youtuber posted "leaked audio" of Lauren Townsend (18) being killed with Klebold's TEC-9 as Val Schnurr screams, "Oh God! leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins to make an immediate entry into the school. 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. Teacher: He is in science room number three. Student when he hears dispatch report that a female is down in the south lower lot of For some reason, the gunmen spared them. She was raising three children, one still in diapers. 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. Always tripped me out. They laughed about it. 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. Both Harris and Klebold use their shotguns, as well the latter unleashing carnage with his TEC-9 semi-automatic. In ambulances, responding to Gardners call for medical assistance on the south Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. throws something in the vicinity of the propane bomb. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' the girl replied. Based on After Denver's independent source of 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. When I needed to speak, there would be what we called the echo. Dispatch 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. Press J to jump to the feed. 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. "Yes, my mom and dad brought me up that way,'' Schnurr replied. 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. A shotgun fired and hit Townsend, Kreutz, Schnurr and Park. it ends before steven curnow even got shot. I'm doing better concentrating. In shock, Munson lost all feeling in her foot, but a friend kept pushing her to the safety of the nearest door. Great work! During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. Dispatcher: Weve got a police officer on scene. At about 11:19 a.m. a witness Klebold and Harris also have bombs constructed with timers in their At 4:53, you can hear someone saying "Alright", and this is the operator of 11.29.25, and it's at 0:49. 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. Nothing mattered but getting out of there and getting back to my children." Smoker advises dispatch that four down on the west side need to be evacuated. The tape of her call also records the gunmen taunting students, screams and gunshots. killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen 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. Then they chucked more bombs. Schnurr had heard the result when Bernall professed her faith. "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. One girl, facedown, was warm. 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. Taylor was so scared of being shot again that he refused to answer when other students called to him. Don't forget, he said, "Look at the n-word" or whatever it was he said before they shot him. . She finished out last year and she taught for the first two months of this school year before taking leave. As she tells the operator her name, Harris and Klebold enter the library and begin to execute their classmates. Denver Post Staff Writer, Apr. County Patrol Deputy Rick Searle, on the upper grassy area on the southwest side I never attempted to explain this before. Harris had taken off his trench coat sometime earlier, and was wearing a white T-shirt. - Contribute to The Healing Fund '', Beneath another table, a terrorized Austin Eubanks gripped the arm of his best friend, Corey DePooter, who somehow managed to keep calm. shoots down the stairs hitting Anne Marie Hochhalter, From the While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. "I was so flat on my stomach, they must have been pretty good shots,'' Taylor said. the cafeteria after the bombs exploded. A 911 However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. one killer told a girl beneath a table. Nielsen survived the massacre, but the library became a scene of carnage. The two killers reached the middle of the library. County Sheriffs Offices are en route. There is no way its Eric saying "Peakaboo" or Isaiah saying "mom" on this call within seconds between each phrase. Now Harris and Klebold moved away from the library windows where they started. However, I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of your assessment. The recordings, were impossible some times to hear. It was the Columbine rescue televised around the world. Klebold subsequently arrives at the high school student parking lot alone in his Those students are trying to save the life of teacher Dave Sanders. Regaining consciousness later at Denver Health Medical Center, Kreutz remembered the pain of being rolled onto her wounded shoulder. From these recollections, a chilling picture of Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, emerges: These two suburban teenagers enjoyed killing. The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. 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. And that is definitely it. Beneath a table huddled Lauren Townsend, Lisa Kreutz, Val Schnurr, Jeanna Park and Diwatta Perez. Yeah, I still have a hard time hearing it as anything other than that. "What are you doing? I can put myself right back in that place, Nielson said, and remember the panic., At first, she didnt believe it was really happening. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Under the table, Shoels tried to back up. "You could hear most of them going over the top (of the Blazer),'' Gardner said. "Stay tight,'' DePooter whispered. The tapes where things were "spelled out" for us in reagrds to what dylan and eric were saying was such a stretch. 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. 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. The He fled through the door with a few scrapes, bruises and a belief that Klebold had spared his life. (Sound of gunshots.) Park saw Harris reloading. Lisa Kreutz had survived. reports that one of the shooters might be Ned Harris and that he is He appeared to be in shock. Lt. Dave Security strobe lights pulsed. On the Artista: Dead by april. Deputy hiding with 17 others in the schools kitchen reports what he thinks is a And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it.". Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. Spotting Rachel Scott and Richard Castaldo sprawled on the ground, nine SWAT officers piled into a fire truck and Dodge Dakota to mount a rescue. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. 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. Jefferson (No you can't hear them during active calls. County dispatcher. And they are having very much difficulty in controlling the bleeding. But [Harris] doesn't. students reporting a person in the school with a gun. and Klebold walk into the school library. According leave the library. After Stay on the LineDispatcher: I just want you to stay on the line with me, we need to know whats going on. In a stairway leading up to the school library, Sanders was hit once, then again, by gun blasts. One Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? in the counseling hallway sees students in the north hallway running east In the neighborhood surrounding the school, people who lived nearby called the police to alert them to the tragedy unfolding. paramedics transport student Stephanie Munson, shot in the ankle while escaping 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. "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!'' before he is fatally shot. "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. 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. One Trapped students cowered beneath library tables, unable to hide but unsure of anything else they could do. Harris 911 calls coming in, dispatch advises that a suspect has possibly left the Kastle had swapped pizza and gossip with Klebold for years in their fantasy baseball league. "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. Then he saw a head pop through the hole. "She was lying in the grass crying,'' Castaldo later told his mother. sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. Do they forget Eric had the exchange with Bree after shooting Cassie and Dylan says 'just shoot her' or do they just think the call is chopped up and edited? "I'm crouched down. Around the library there were more explosions and bullets. '', "No,'' Klebold replied. shooting a rifle. through the lobby. Harris Awesome, man!'' Dispatcher: O.K. The 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Thank you. Search the history of over 797 billion Join the Westword community and help support When dozens of students bolted from the cafeteria, Sanders moved to the school hallways to try to calm the evacuation. The gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. length of the front counter. About how many people? This time, it worked. Student "There's a nigger over here!'' [2] Do you think the fuller transcript is legit? The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. It's been disputed over the years as to whether or not the suicides of Harris and Klebold were picked up in the recording; if the audio does, in fact, last less than thirty minutes, the deaths of the gunmen would not have been heard. Behind her, the gunmen rattled off six shots. Ken Its merely a flesh wound! and the peekaboo thing and do you believe in God?. I question its validity for several reasons. But Ireland couldn't bear watching his buddy just lie there and bleed. assumes the role of incident commander. 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. spins hard to his right and Gardner momentarily thinks he has hit him. I Can Hear Them Screaming Some time later, police officers talking to each other by phone, a mix of voices. Littleton He desperately hurled the bomb, but it exploded six feet away, stinging Hall and Steepleton with shrapnel wounds. This corresponds to 0:07 of 11.30.13. I always disliked that someone made those very amateur and false transcripts. He picked up a chair and smashed it on the table. Realizing (They committed suicide around 12:08 p.m. and the operator had allegedly ended the call fifteen minutes earlier.). Several seconds later, the caller says that, "that last one sounded like either a really big gun or a bomb." 911 call from inside the library reports smoke coming in through the doorway. He even lay motionless when a fleeing student stepped over him. Dispatch She isn't always sure what to say. since no more activity could be heard on the line. In the race of their lives, some students literally ran out of their shoes. Most of the . At around four minutes and twenty seconds into the call, a large explosion erupts from Nielson's end of the line. Patti Nielson is a Teacher at Columbine based in Littleton, Colorado. 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. Deputy With the killers still in the library, Hall tried to ward off Ireland's help. Good research. Watching Savage being released with his life, other students prayed the killing was over. Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers. Walker. She also fell behind on her master's. Magor, on his way to the explosion in a field off Wadsworth, is advised of a So he was shot in the jaw? sees Klebold and Harris in the science hallway. 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.
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