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Fire calls for personnel to stage at the scene. The call was placed at 11:25 a.m.[4] She relays to the operator that she was on hall duty when she noticed an unfamiliar male student (Eric Harris) holding what appeared to be "a large [prop] gun." senior prank. countys dispatch center goes into an emergency command system as the incoming One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. placing two 20-lb. In a stairway leading up to the school library, Sanders was hit once, then again, by gun blasts. "Wait, there's one more thing,'' he told Harris. - Contribute to The Healing Fund is last seen running back down the north hall to the west in the direction of Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. Smoker "Hi, Dylan,'' Savage said. Smoker radios that students are saying the shooter is wearing a black trench And Im in the library. Klebold and Harris also have bombs constructed with timers in their Dispatch I've got the kids on the floor. Suddenly Kastle fell through the ceiling, landing on the floor in front of a cafeteria exit. I've cleared up a lot of this by comparing several 911 calls with Patti Nielson's. 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. side, approach the south parking lot. Harris Still, Schnurr answered truthfully. She was raising three children, one still in diapers. Great work! So he lifted his right arm, which had only one bullet. Deputy And I knew it was older because the phones looked like the desk phones of my teachers, when I was in high school. lower parking lot of the high school. Schnurr had heard the result when Bernall professed her faith. Teacher Doug Friesen and several students ripped off their shirts and pressed them into Sanders' wounds, trying to save his life with makeshift tourniquets. 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. The terror soon would follow her inside the school. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Lisa Kreutz had survived. 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. Become a member to support the independent voice of Denver Kids are screaming . We sent SWAT in with some paramedics and everybody thats inside the school is confirmed D.O.A. Rohrbough, Sean Nielson, who suffered from a severe case of PTSD, refused to listen to the playback. to report shots being fired outside the library. Klebold is running behind them, but comes to an abrupt halt 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. Outside the school, more police arrived. I was speaking to him. , Nielson: He turned the gun straight at us and shot and my God, the window went out. However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. Then they spotted Nielson scrunched under the librarian's desk. Park saw Harris reloading. Kids! [2] In 2011, a Youtuber posted "leaked audio" of Lauren Townsend (18) being killed with Klebold's TEC-9 as Val Schnurr screams, "Oh God! When he came to, he found the fuse of a palm-sized bomb sizzling beneath his table. Many tried to shield themselves with tipped chairs. 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. "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. County Patrol Deputy Rick Searle, on the upper grassy area on the southwest side Teacher pipe bomb is thrown over the railing from the hallway above and into the Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. The FBI one looks like: SHOT. Publication date 1999 Topics Columbine, Columbine massacre, School shooting, Shooting, Mass shooting, Hitmen for hire, Columbine CCTV, Columbine cafeteria, Columbine RPG, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold Language English. minute. We need police here. Yet Oh God! I hope I make sense and I worked there a year before I moved to a better paying job. As the bombs exploding in the field along Wadsworth Boulevard are intended to divert, Harris But I don't want to impose. The next audio happens directly after this, at 4:51 of Patti Nielson's call, and an operator clearly says "get under the desk, okay?" at this point. Gardner ''. But friends and classmates scattered throughout the library did see and hear what happened around them. Dispatcher: Is there any way you can lock the doors? taken cover behind Taborskys patrol car. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. 16 - Patti Nielson. reports that one shooter is in the food preparation area and that the shooter has 17 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. He even lay motionless when a fleeing student stepped over him. "As we crossed the open door, the suspect threw what turned out to be a homemade grenade. 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. One Nothing mattered but getting out of there and getting back to my children." sleeve of a black trench coat shooting a. Klebold The recordings, were impossible some times to hear. I'm getting ready to pick her up. 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?" Teacher: He is in science room number three. Nielson and Anderson fled to the library, where several students had assumed that the sound of gunfire was some sort of senior prank. "Full" Patti Nielson 911 Call - video Dailymotion From under the table, the teacher could see only Klebold's black combat boots. in the counseling hallway sees students in the north hallway running east A subreddit focused on constructive discussion to better understand the events that took place surrounding the mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. Klebold hurled a pipe bomb onto the school roof. I always wonder this as well, as she is literally screaming to get under the tables. location at Caley Avenue and Yukon Street, Harris and Klebold go into the hallway and make their way to the science Transcript: Columbine 911 Tapes - ABC News radio traffic they are hearing and personnel are quick to arrive at the scene. Anyways. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked inside the library. When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. 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. Graves screamed that his legs didn't work. that additional assistance is coming from other agencies. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' the girl replied. In 7 minutes, 10 people advises additional gunfire being reported. paged. Searle reports smoke coming from the building. (They committed suicide around 12:08 p.m. and the operator had allegedly ended the call fifteen minutes earlier.). Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. Stephanie Munson was in the hallway outside the principal's office when a bullet smashed through her leg, just above the ankle. One of the biggest issues with detecting anything that Harris and Klebold said on Patti Nielson's 911 call is the extraneous background noise, some of which people believe to be Harris and Klebold talking. In the documentary Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High, Brown is quoted as saying: "During the shooting, you can hear [Klebold] saying all kinds of things to people before he kills them. "Identify yourself!''. Regaining consciousness later at Denver Health Medical Center, Kreutz remembered the pain of being rolled onto her wounded shoulder. At about 4:14 in Patti Nielson's call, someone distinctly says "okay." Walker reports more explosions inside the school. Directly after this, another operator asks, "Can I help you?" Hoping a simple human gesture might stop the bloodshed, Steepleton peered from 20 feet away directly into Klebold's eyes. 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. She was emotionally strained. the west entrance and the sounds of gunfire. 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. County SWAT commander Lt. Terry Manwaring, on his way to the high school, orders The 911 recording is currently in the hands of the Jefferson County Police Department. Scott didn't know that his sister, Rachel, already had been shot outside the cafeteria. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? independent local journalism in Denver. 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. Her conversation with the operator was punctuated by continuing gunshots. and Klebold walk into the school library. Everyone who could run did. going to come to an end. reports begin to provide glimpses of the incidents magnitude. . Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. And I must say you did an awesome job doing, that most call center people deal with all the time. 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. County Dispatch asks if any deputies on scene have a long gun (a rifle or I felt something in my shoulder, Nielson said, her voice quavering slightly, I got grazed by a bullet.. I got all of the kids in the library on the floor.''. Lance Kirklin saw his friend being rescued. Stephanie Munson and another student walk out of a classroom into the schools As she tells the operator her name, Harris and Klebold enter the library and begin to execute their classmates. From these recollections, a chilling picture of Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, emerges: These two suburban teenagers enjoyed killing. "Oh, I'm killing people. [3] The duo placed two homemade propane tank bombs inside of the school's cafeteria in an attempt to create mass casualties. 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. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. Nothing close to what I read elsewhere. Walcher Denver's independent source of The first bullet shattered the door glass and thumped harmlessly into Anderson's necklace. "Maybe we should start knifing people - that would be more fun,'' Todd recalls the other killer saying. The two killers reached the middle of the library. Teachers The deputy rolled out of his patrol car. Columbine High School - Patti Neilson 911 Call - YouTube A big question you might have now is "if Patti Nielson's call started at 11.25.04, how is it possible that the call at 11.23.11 is able to be present fully?" The paramedic rolled her over and found open eyes full of tears. 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. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. Yeah, I guess I can try to go, but hes right outside that door. side. ''. The The 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!" - AP special section school and begin the rescue of two wounded students lying on the ground near the Most of the . She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. 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. This happens at 0:46 of 11.29.25. By Susan Besze Wallace I grabbed him by the ankles and told him, 'We're getting you out of here.' custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance Taborsky, protecting students who have fled out the west side of the school, If it is separate from FBI-If the FBI cant hear it with all their resources, how can you? Stay on the LineDispatcher: I just want you to stay on the line with me, we need to know whats going on. You can hear this operator again at 4:59 of Patti Nielson's call, and asks, "What's the emergency?" She had decided she wouldn't graduate in May, but now it looks possible. Boulevard. Now Harris and Klebold moved away from the library windows where they started. — -- 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. Beneath one table, Craig Scott huddled with two schoolmates, Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter. This noise corresponds to an operator saying "um" at 2:11 on 11.27.04. 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. the building. Paul Smoker, a motorcycle patrolman for the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office, 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. Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre) : Unknown : Free positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims The 911 cafeteria. Next to him, Scott curled in pain. "I realize she's shot in the head. students run out of the cafeteria through a side door. Around the library there were more explosions and bullets. and Harris leave the science area and go down into the cafeteria. But strangely, on the morning of the Columbine massacre, Harris warned Brooks Brown to go home just before the shooting started. Find contact's direct phone number, email address, work history, and more. and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. 911 Calls from Columbine High School There were flashbacks. "I'm crouched down. Audio File: a 911 call from inside the school, with fire alarm in background (placed at approximately 11:31 AM). "He wanted to kill Brooks, said Randy Brown, so we went to the police with that. bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the Deputy 1982 black BMW. Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? As chiiling as they are, such an important part of this horrifying puzzle. Apologies for the long post, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. Losing blood and consciousness, Sanders told several students, "Tell my daughter I love her.''. But they waved their guns again and Kyle Velasquez, John Tomlin, Steve Curnow and Kelly Fleming all fell dead. The "that bitch.." bit always came through very clearly to me. 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. "I was thinking I was going to die, trying to take the biggest breaths I could take. above. cafeteria videotape shows that, as the gunmen are walking away, there is a. Why do I have to do it all at once? Stay down until the police come to you. They laughed about it. "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. hears one of the suspects say, GO! This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 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. Hiding beneath a lunch table, Keni Dooley watched a gunman lob a bomb into the cafeteria and shoot it. 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. Under the gunfire, Littleton paramedic Jerry Losasso pulled Sean Graves, who was paralyzed, into a waiting ambulance. After Deputy coming from the schools northeast side. And they are having very much difficulty in controlling the bleeding. senseless tragedy on the 110th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth that stole the lives of the strong and popular as well as the handicapped and lonely. The other put his gun in his mouth. Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. Dispatch caller tells dispatch. Walker reports possibly seeing one of the gunmen through the windows on the She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. Deputy I thought it was probably a video production, she said, so I went out there to tell him to stop., It was then she realized it was real as one of the young gunmen turned around and fired in her direction. Smoker advises dispatch that four down on the west side need to be evacuated. Yeah, I still have a hard time hearing it as anything other than that. or experienced to Deputy Magor, whose patrol car is blocking the traffic on Nielson, the hiding teacher who made the 911 call, said, "They were on a power trip. Dispatch County Patrol Sgt. Based on The next bullet grazed Nielson along her shoulder. They are in the science area in rooms one, two and three. Hes bleeding out of the mouth. Many Deputies I returned fire with my MP-5.''. I think I want to have it behind. school cafeteria. Seth Houy threw his body over Crystal Woodman and whispered a vow to take a bullet for her. I can put myself right back in that place, Nielson said, and remember the panic., At first, she didnt believe it was really happening. school lunch tables. Always tripped me out. "My God, the gun is right outside the door,'' Nielson frantically told the dispatcher. 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? Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. There's a very distinct difference between how the two handled [the massacre] that day. in the cafeteria realize the activity occurring outside is more serious than a When the gunmen leave, survivors are heard fleeing. I always disliked that someone made those very amateur and false transcripts. Facedown on the ground, he tried desperately to hide his body by pressing it into the grass. "She was lying in the grass crying,'' Castaldo later told his mother. 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. Theyre not Band-Aids, but they have cloth to try to control the bleeding. A special education student who transferred to Columbine just three weeks earlier, Taylor was talking about his born-again Christianity with two Mormon classmates when the first bullet ripped through his left thigh. He immediately is approached by a teacher as well as He kept moving. This is really great work! call from a Columbine High School student reports a girl injured in the south 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. Deputy The eyewitness accounts are full of terror and courage, heartbreak and luck. Email. He survived. and Chatfield Avenues. Nielson dropped to the floor and scrambled for safety, crawling so fast that she skinned her knees. Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. Harris rattled off 10 shots at the deputy with his 9mm carbine. This is actually a 911 operator speaking fast and saying, phonetically, "Jeff's'n Coun'y Sheriff's Office, do you have an emergency? Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. 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. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. to the student, Harris tells him to leave the school because he likes him. 16 It landed about three feet in front of me,'' O'Shea said. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers. She was teaching three art classes a day. INAUDIBLE. Dave Sanders, still on the second level, turns into the library hallway toward In shock, Munson lost all feeling in her foot, but a friend kept pushing her to the safety of the nearest door. '', Klebold shrugged. shooting a rifle. They were playing God. County dispatcher. Taylor crumpled. A friend of the gunmen, Brooks Brown, also heard the recording (as investigators needed him and several others to confirm the shooters' voices). on the Internet. call is received by the Sheriffs Office from the. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it.". He appeared to be in shock. Patti Nielson Nielson was an art teacher at Columbine when the massacre occurred, and probably the first to warn the students about the shooters. Injured and Survivors of the Columbine High School shooting The the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be He desperately hurled the bomb, but it exploded six feet away, stinging Hall and Steepleton with shrapnel wounds. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. Byerly reports shots fired on the east side of the building. ", which happens at the start of 11.30.04. She also fell behind on her master's. students reporting a person in the school with a gun.