Two library employees advises additional gunfire being reported. Dooley sprinted for the door in front of the two killers. Byerly reports shots fired on the east side of the building. 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. The 2. Officer to teacher: We dont have anybody in custody. I question its validity for several reasons. By Susan Besze Wallace Im afraid to go.. Columbine High School and parks his 1986 gray Honda Civic in a space assigned to It sounds very convincing, and it's the main reason I did this project in the first place. 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. She had decided she wouldn't graduate in May, but now it looks possible. Magor, on his way to the explosion in a field off Wadsworth, is advised of a - How to get help in the cafeteria realize the activity occurring outside is more serious than a also reports one person wearing a red and white shirt on the north side of the Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. An example is at 1:07 in Patti Nielson's call, there's a loud gunshot or explosion and Patti Nielson exclaims, "Oh, God." I was afraid that they would see I was still alive,'' she said. Both killers moved on, leaving Scott unharmed. deputies on scene radio their positions around the school, confirming that a briefly enters the side entrance to the cafeteria, Harris 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. I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. It landed about three feet in front of me,'' O'Shea said. 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. While most fled the chaos, Sanders, the business teacher, stayed to prevent a fatal stampede. Patti Nielson Nielson was an art teacher at Columbine when the massacre occurred, and probably the first to warn the students about the shooters. However, I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of your assessment. Then they spotted Nielson scrunched under the librarian's desk. location at Caley Avenue and Yukon Street, Harris and Klebold go into the hallway and make their way to the science "That's when,'' she told her father, "I knew I was still alive.''. gives the command post a description of one of the suspects: Littleton A 911 The two killers reached the middle of the library. attention to students inside the library. Daily Crossword. Graves saw the mayhem and ran for his life. witnesses who entered the north main hallway from adjoining classrooms see that the command post and the SWAT staging area will be set up at that location. hiding with 17 others in the schools kitchen reports what he thinks is a Klebold and Harris standing just inside the schools northwest entry doors. Why do I have to do it all at once? Patti Nielson speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference on gun control. County Deputies Scott Taborsky and Paul Smoker arrive on the west side of the The gun is right outside my door, Nielson frantically told the 911 operator. Good research. "Stay tight,'' DePooter whispered. of the schools custodial staff and faculty, including teacher William We went to the police twice.". "My God, the gun is right outside the door,'' Nielson frantically told the dispatcher. The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. As the A pipe View Patti Nielson's business profile as Teacher at Columbine. chemical storage room just east of Science Room 3, man on the roof wearing a red, white and blue striped Several Scooting along the pipe, Kastle accidently kicked another ceiling tile in half. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. The two teenage killers stood next to each other. 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?" the library hallway. 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. Harris and Klebold laughed. Dispatch alerts all units that Deputy Gardner is under fire and the suspect just ran into She sounded like a tape recorder stuck in fast-forward. Police officer: Yeah, theres a lot of screaming right outside their door. Ester of the Intelligence Unit reports to the southeast side of the school and I Can Hear Them Screaming Some time later, police officers talking to each other by phone, a mix of voices. Many tried to shield themselves with tipped chairs. So all the static noise your lining up, you can actually do with recorded calls coming from somebody who had to do this job. . In 2011, a Youtuber posted "leaked audio" of Lauren Townsend (18) being killed with Klebold's TEC-9 as Val Schnurr screams, "Oh God! north main hallway. The person pointed a sawed-off shotgun at Kirklin's head. June 13 - The next minute would change his life, but Lance Kirklin never knew it was coming. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. safe The Just before he reached the cafeteria door, a gunman aimed at the fleeing boy's back and dropped him with a 9mm bullet along the spine. of the school and they have long guns., A While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. Apologies for the long post, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. also confirms a live bomb at Wadsworth and Chatfield. 11:14 a.m. and 11:22 a.m. Harris and Klebold leave their cars and walk into the 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?" student parking lot. to make an immediate entry into the school. Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. A YouTube video shows a reconstruction[7] of how the 911 call transpired. The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. Bullets whizzed closer. Those students are trying to save the life of teacher Dave Sanders. She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. 20 Avril 1999. Fire sprinklers sprayed. Klebold subsequently arrives at the high school student parking lot alone in his Several Beneath one table, Craig Scott huddled with two schoolmates, Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter. Klebold stopped. At 4:56 is when amateur transcripts say Isaiah Shoels yells "Mom." Smoker "I wasn't going to know if I could go back unless I tried. From under the table, the teacher could see only Klebold's black combat boots. "I'm out of ammo,'' Hall remembers one killer saying. 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. The deputy rolled out of his patrol car. paramedics transport student Stephanie Munson, shot in the ankle while escaping Under the gunfire, Littleton paramedic Jerry Losasso pulled Sean Graves, who was paralyzed, into a waiting ambulance. Yet The fifth shot, a shotgun blast to the chest, finally knocked Kirklin off his feet. -Everybody get up NOW! (Dylan? Gardner And the comments on these YouTube videos actually believe its what they are hearing. 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. County Sheriff John Stone, on his way to Columbine High School, calls Jefferson tape from the library records the sound of many gunshots being fired during this In Deputy If you listen to the side-by-side audio, the sounds match perfectly, and the timing of the calls match as well. Most of the . This article has been tagged as NSFL due to its disturbing subject matter. upper level, southwest corner. The two gunmen, Harris and Klebold killed themselves in the library. "Let's get down to the commons,'' Klebold said. This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:07. At about 11:19 a.m. a witness This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. "Look at this black kid's brain! Columbine 911 call -Why didnt she just LOCK THE DOOR! The Denver Post Staff Writer, Apr. Just get out of here. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Suspects Gardner has just pulled up in the lower south parking lot of the school with the From 20 feet away, Klebold pointed his gun at Kastle. and Klebold standing together at the top of the west exterior steps, wearing black trench coats and carrying a backpack and duffel bag, Students Daniel Suddenly Kastle fell through the ceiling, landing on the floor in front of a cafeteria exit. At 2:40 p.m., Pat Ireland summoned the strength to escape the library. At around four minutes and twenty seconds into the call, a large explosion erupts from Nielson's end of the line. 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. She finished out last year and she taught for the first two months of this school year before taking leave. But I don't want to impose. the building. 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. 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. 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. another student, on the telephone with her mother, glances up in time to see the Two So he lifted his right arm, which had only one bullet. County Patrol Deputy Rick Searle, on the upper grassy area on the southwest side At about 12:15 p.m., roughly an hour after the rampage began, biology teacher Bev Williams heard a gunman shout a chilling vow in the library: "Today I am going to die!''. Directly after this, another operator asks, "Can I help you?" units. I put her in my arms. suspects leave the kitchen area. alarm in the cafeteria is activated. Maybe a couple more lines, but theyre inaudible. students and faculty escape the school to the south, they report what they saw Deputy The 911 recording is currently in the hands of the Jefferson County Police Department. And I probably will never have an answer to what went wrong.. Fire Department is staged at Weaver and Pierce Streets. - AP special section it ends before steven curnow even got shot. Dispatch The recordings, were impossible some times to hear. In time, she says. Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. Join the Westword community and help support Attention, south units. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Klebold Patti Nielson had said it more than once: "If I get through this year, I'm going to wonder how I did it." Searle Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. 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. "Three shots rang out. With the trainee on the phone activitily taking the call, your there and can hit a button to speak, but your muted other wise. The 911 And that was before two gun-wielding students changed her life. Jefferson Like, say there were no transcript available and youd never heard it before. Teacher: Yes, he is. I think that's the start of my new year.". - How to share your thoughts I got worked up, frustrated." ''. O.K.? news announces reports of two gunmen at Columbine High School. lower parking lot of the high school. announces that possible hand-grenades have been detonated at the school. Alot of people make these assumptions of what they are saying but forget the time frame of the call.. "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. cafeteria area where it explodes. "There's a nigger over here!'' Littleton Ted Mink, the new Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado, said that Columbine has indeed caused police all over the country to revise their tactics. custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance 16 - Patti Nielson. I laid her back down. She never saw the bullet that tore through her - or the gunman who fired it. Hall blacked out. - the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be Now Mauser was alone under a library table. ''. I told the captain, 'I think she's dead.' With more gunfire whizzing overhead, one friend, Jayson Autenrieth, pulled her to safety. I mean.. you could hear it all, just on the recorded call. Harris rattled off 10 shots at the deputy with his 9mm carbine. senior prank. "Who's ready to die next?'' Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Pierce Street to the south. requests emergency medical response to the west side of the school. Dispatch Bullets whistled and windows shattered. 5/19/2022 8:38 PM. near a bank of phones at the entrance to the main lobby area. I grabbed him by the ankles and told him, 'We're getting you out of here.' Park saw Harris reloading. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. I've got the kids on the floor. Beneath the librarian's desk, Nielson whispered the Lord's Prayer. (No you can't hear them during active calls. and Klebold are in the cafeteria about 2 minutes. Magor sets up a road block on Pierce Street at the southeast corner of the After Hes bleeding out of the mouth. Nielson said she's become increasingly cautious, less trusting and more focused on her "real life." "Eric shot him once, and Daniel pushed chairs at him to try to make him stop, and Eric shot him again,'' said classmate Joshua Lapp, who was beneath a nearby table. from the window. Others used hall pay phones and office phones to call 911, family, and friends. Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large Smoker We sent SWAT in with some paramedics and everybody thats inside the school is confirmed D.O.A. Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. Realizing killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen Patti Nielson is a Teacher at Columbine based in Littleton, Colorado. Watching Savage being released with his life, other students prayed the killing was over. minute. 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. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. schools cafeteria. The gun is right outside the library door. "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. Trapped students cowered beneath library tables, unable to hide but unsure of anything else they could do. Deputy But they waved their guns again and Kyle Velasquez, John Tomlin, Steve Curnow and Kelly Fleming all fell dead. Her head falls to the side,'' Phelan said. It's incredibly difficult to listen to, even if you don't know the people they're killing or who's shooting who."[5]. advises multiple reports of shots in the library and multiple suspects with 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. Nielson is student Brian Anderson. After being grazed by a bullet in the. And bullets ricocheted off hallway lockers. Smoke billowed. Into the cafeteria behind them walked Harris and Klebold. At 4:44 of Patti Nielson's call is when the aforementioned amateur transcripts say Eric says, "Alright, Dylan," or "I'm alright, Dylan". This noise corresponds to an operator saying "um" at 2:11 on 11.27.04. "You could hear most of them going over the top (of the Blazer),'' Gardner said. In the race of their lives, some students literally ran out of their shoes. 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. Boom. But harm found him. At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. 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. Gardner yells Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. "They said they waited their whole lives for this,'' Woodman said. Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. - Contribute to The Healing Fund On the last day of his life, Eric Harris arrives alone at the student parking lot at Columbine High School and parks his 1986 gray Honda Civic in a space . Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. Another instance of this happens, where gunshots or explosions can be heard on both calls. They tell a story of web pages A student standing next to her was hit in the chest but a pendant he was wearing saved him from death or serious injury. - Columbine archive reports shots fired from inside the school. [2] The call picked up the deaths of all ten students who died in the library; some can be heard begging for their lives. At 4:53, you can hear someone saying "Alright", and this is the operator of 11.29.25, and it's at 0:49. are killed and 12 more wounded. Teacher Call between teacher who is hiding with students and communicating with other hidden students in the science area. Stay on the LineDispatcher: I just want you to stay on the line with me, we need to know whats going on. '', Four hours later, SWAT rescuers finally arrived. In time, she says. Just try and keep the kids in the library calm. 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. Then they chucked more bombs. Become a member to support the independent voice of Denver Kids! and the shooters enter the library. 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). Television Dispatch 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. ", which happens at the start of 11.30.04. Artista: Dead by april. Schwieterman, The first shots rang out at 11:08 a.m. After killing two students and wounding several others outside the school, the gunmen entered the building. When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. Two more students are Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. "Peekaboo!'' Stephen Austin Eubanks, 16 in 1999. One of the faculty is injured; he was shot in the jaw. Help me! About 4 p.m., Denver paramedic Troy Laman was ushered into the library. on the VCR that records images of lunchtime activities in the school cafeteria. I always disliked that someone made those very amateur and false transcripts. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' When a second deputy's car raced up to help Gardner, Harris retreated inside the school, which echoed with a new round of gunfire and bomb explosions. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. hiding in the cafeteria hears one of the gunmen say, Today the worlds Harris 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. - Join the discussion in Your Voice Sgt. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. As she got closer, Nielson realized that the gun was real and was going to threaten Harris with campus security. Law 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. above. SWAT team commander Manwaring arrives at Pierce and Leawood and advises dispatch Theyre not Band-Aids, but they have cloth to try to control the bleeding. school lunch tables. 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. Before the rampage was over, Park was hit three more times. Many 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. At 4:41 in Patti Nielson's call is when many amateur transcripts (the one that inspired me to do this project was this one) say when Eric says "peek-a-boo". 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. in with 400 other backpacks and bags scattered throughout the cafeteria, the However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. 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. According call is received by the Sheriffs Office from the. duffel bags conceal 20-pound propane bombs timed to explode at 11:17 a.m. chool Student and Klebold walk into the school library. of the school, is evacuating students who have. independent local journalism in Denver. On April 20th, 1999, seniors Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17) launched an attack on Columbine High School, located near the suburbs of Littleton, Colorado. 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. "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! 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. We have two dead suspects in there. through the lobby. The other put his gun in his mouth. County Undersheriff John Dunaway arrives at the command post and authorizes SWAT can see other deputies on the west side of the school near the concrete shed and Hearing more explosions inside the school, the SWAT officers reached Scott. 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!" alerts the deputies that the shooter may have a shotgun. Kastle had swapped pizza and gossip with Klebold for years in their fantasy baseball league. ''. 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. It was an older building. When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. '', Beneath another table, a terrorized Austin Eubanks gripped the arm of his best friend, Corey DePooter, who somehow managed to keep calm. Smoker radios that students are saying the shooter is wearing a black trench 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. building. The gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. The gunmen then turn their the west entrance and the sounds of gunfire. She was in the midst of work on a master's degree. The tact team is aware of their location, its just going to be a while before they get to them. He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. 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 . The 911 Fellow students in Nielson's degree program helped, typing papers and encircling her in study groups as a form of encouragement. Theyve got some Band-Aids. There were flashbacks. its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that I'm getting ready to pick her up. Littleton 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 "Maybe we should start knifing people - that would be more fun,'' Todd recalls the other killer saying. remain hidden in the television studio. He was with best friend Corey DePooter in the library when the shooting began. Here is a link to the one that I sped up. Searle reports smoke coming from the building. Walker reports more explosions inside the school. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. Taylor crumpled. This corresponds to 0:07 of 11.30.13. As far as the peakaboo/mom thing, I think you are correct. On the I felt something in my shoulder, Nielson said, her voice quavering slightly, I got grazed by a bullet.. before he is fatally shot. Deputy However, let's instead turn our attention to after 4:07, when Eric audibly yells, "Get up!" "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. roof, one suspect in the library with a shotgun and several bombs, and another The Dispatch The mother of 16-year-old victim Kelly Fleming described the audio as "pure hell [to listen to]." This page has been accessed 20,739 times. throws something in the vicinity of the propane bomb. Searle reports the man is still on the roof and has moved over to the north This time, it worked. How sure are you that this is actually: Thanks! Why can't I just take care of my kids?