Through the library window, the killers spotted a police car. But Ireland couldn't bear watching his buddy just lie there and bleed. '', Klebold shrugged. In summary, there's only 3 concrete instances of the shooters talking and/or yelling, and all of the rest is background noise from the 911 call center. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. Harris
one killer told a girl beneath a table. Broncos the librarys east area and enter the center section, reloading their weapons
Suddenly bullets hit Scott. They were playing God. 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. A few moments later, Nielson retreats to a back storage area in the library and her voice is no longer heard during the call. suspects both take a moment to drink from water bottles left by students on the
before he is fatally shot. 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. Smoker radios that students are saying the shooter is wearing a black trench
Crouching over Hall's pained body, Ireland let his own head rise just above the top edge of the table. You can hear just after the gunshot the same operator in the same call ask "where, where is that?". Patti Nielson speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference on gun control. The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. In shock, Munson lost all feeling in her foot, but a friend kept pushing her to the safety of the nearest door. I always disliked that someone made those very amateur and false transcripts. A YouTube video shows a reconstruction[7] of how the 911 call transpired. Ted Mink, the new Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado, said that Columbine has indeed caused police all over the country to revise their tactics. (They committed suicide around 12:08 p.m. and the operator had allegedly ended the call fifteen minutes earlier.). Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. The first
countys dispatch center goes into an emergency command system as the incoming
It landed about three feet in front of me,'' O'Shea said. The gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. DePooter was dead. 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?" Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. 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. Outside the school, more police arrived. He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. Help reached him too late. I dont think Im going out there.. cafeteria area where it explodes. "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. the cafeteria after the bombs exploded. bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the
At around four minutes and twenty seconds into the call, a large explosion erupts from Nielson's end of the line. For the second time that day, Kirklin turned his head and said, "Help.''. And hey if it works why fix it? Two more students are
Dispatch
advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. "Oh, I'm killing people. and Klebold are in the cafeteria about 2 minutes. Student
at this point. 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. Paul Smoker, a motorcycle patrolman for the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office,
two-hour 911 phone call (from 11:29 a.m. to 1:24 p.m.) from a school secretary
also reports one person wearing a red and white shirt on the north side of the
''. I returned fire with my MP-5.''. It was the Columbine rescue televised around the world. "I wasn't going to know if I could go back unless I tried. And the comments on these YouTube videos actually believe its what they are hearing. Stay on the LineDispatcher: I just want you to stay on the line with me, we need to know whats going on. Dispatch
Jefferson
Harris and Klebold laughed. From 20 feet away, Klebold pointed his gun at Kastle. Into the cafeteria behind them walked Harris and Klebold. hallway, She drops the phone and
Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. Other times, they pointed their guns at a classmate but spared him for no apparent reason. We need police here. Scott didn't know that his sister, Rachel, already had been shot outside the cafeteria. Awesome, man!'' 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. reports a possible shooter on the football field behind the shed. 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. Nothing close to what I read elsewhere. Dispatcher: O.K. Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. Gardner has just pulled up in the lower south parking lot of the school with the
Deputy
Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. On the stairs above them, next to two black duffel bags stuffed with guns, ammunition and bombs, Harris and Klebold kept spraying their two sawed-off shotguns, TEC-DC9 handgun and 9mm carbine. 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 . 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. Help me! schools cafeteria. 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 put her in my arms. leave the library. There are also a few other things that corroborate this. last day of his life, Eric Harris arrives alone at the student parking lot at
Her conversation with the operator was punctuated by continuing gunshots. Ken
For some reason, the gunmen spared them. "There's a nigger over here!'' Klebold and Harris also have bombs constructed with timers in their
I got worked up, frustrated." above. So he lifted his right arm, which had only one bullet. Dispatch
custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance
caliber.. The eyewitness accounts are full of terror and courage, heartbreak and luck. Gardner, who is in the south parking lot and has exchanged gunfire with Eric
At 4:56 is when amateur transcripts say Isaiah Shoels yells "Mom." Klebold
report 30 students have exited the school on the west side. About 4 p.m., Denver paramedic Troy Laman was ushered into the library. Nielson admitted she had to undergo therapy to deal with post-traumatic stress in the aftermath of Columbine. Directly after this, another operator asks, "Can I help you?" - Columbine main page 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. - Columbine archive Nielson dropped to the floor and scrambled for safety, crawling so fast that she skinned her knees. A pipe
County Sheriffs Offices are en route. Focusing was a challenge. 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. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Patti Nielson is a Teacher at Columbine based in Littleton, Colorado. - Create a memorial page. 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. Behind her, the gunmen rattled off six shots. We sent SWAT in with some paramedics and everybody thats inside the school is confirmed D.O.A. I think that's the start of my new year.". She was teaching three art classes a day. Vince DiManna and Lt. Pat Phelan inched toward the west doorway where Harris had traded gunfire with the sheriff's deputy. One
I grab her. O.K.? 5/19/2022 8:38 PM. 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?" Thank you. 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. attention to students inside the library. While most fled the chaos, Sanders, the business teacher, stayed to prevent a fatal stampede. to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of
students and faculty escape the school to the south, they report what they saw
Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. Nielsen survived the massacre, but the library became a scene of carnage. alerts the deputies that the shooter may have a shotgun. Great work! It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. "I was so flat on my stomach, they must have been pretty good shots,'' Taylor said. advises that the suspects are possibly wearing body armor. Dispatch
justgatheringinfo web pages Seems like they were making the transcript off witness accounts and not from actual sound, which is backwards. County Undersheriff John Dunaway arrives at the command post and authorizes SWAT
I pray they are getting help." The "full" 911 call of teacher Patti Nielson from the library on the day of the Columbine massacre. We have found so many explosive devices including several car bombs, things like that. the ballfields. Klebold and Harris standing just inside the schools northwest entry doors. Now it was real. response to reports that one of the suspects may have left the building, several
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. Nielson, the hiding teacher who made the 911 call, said, "They were on a power trip. 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? also confirms a live bomb at Wadsworth and Chatfield. IE 11 is not supported. Watching Savage being released with his life, other students prayed the killing was over. Several
One girl, facedown, was warm. killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen
Bullets whizzed closer. 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. 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. Nothing mattered but getting out of there and getting back to my children." In 2011, a Youtuber posted "leaked audio" of Lauren Townsend (18) being killed with Klebold's TEC-9 as Val Schnurr screams, "Oh God! Behind her, the hallway suddenly turned quiet. It always distinguishes between Eric and Dylan. The two killers reached the middle of the library. But some Columbine parents believe authorities ignored prior warning signsthat the massacre might have been prevented. going to come to an end. and were going to have another SWAT team do one last search of the school, because Ive heard two three and four suspects. Call between teacher who is hiding with students and communicating with other hidden students in the science area. The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. Officer to teacher: We dont have anybody in custody. They are in the science area in rooms one, two and three. students in that area with him. I hear this, in order: -WOO-HOO! (From hall) -Get up! (Eric?) "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' As far as the peakaboo/mom thing, I think you are correct. As the
Taylor was so scared of being shot again that he refused to answer when other students called to him. Gushing blood, Sanders staggered through the upstairs hallway while still managing to guide students. The same loud noise can be heard on 11.23.11 at 1:03, with sounds of people reacting to it. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. "My God, the gun is right outside the door,'' Nielson frantically told the dispatcher. 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. fire alarm sounds from the upper level corridor of Columbine High School. She sounded like a tape recorder stuck in fast-forward. While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. student can be seen on the cafeteria videotape crawling out of the cafeteria
When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. Fellow students in Nielson's degree program helped, typing papers and encircling her in study groups as a form of encouragement. Ive got students, under the table. Deputy
Then he saw a head pop through the hole. roof, one suspect in the library with a shotgun and several bombs, and another
Shot twice in the left side of his head, Ireland dropped. 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. Several seconds later, the caller says that, "that last one sounded like either a really big gun or a bomb." Beside
Thank you for doing and sharing all of this research!! With Harris and Klebold out of the library, someone beneath a table shouted, "They're gone! Littleton
Unless Eric is talking to Bree and Isaiah says "mom" simultaneously, catching Dylan's attention. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. 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. And I'm in the library. propane bombs in the cafeteria, Harris and Klebold go back
Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. ", which happens at the start of 11.30.04. Everyone who could run did. While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. 16 - Patti Nielson. 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. 2. At about 11:19 a.m. a witness
As chiiling as they are, such an important part of this horrifying puzzle. call reports that students are injured outside the school. 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." 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. Next to him, Scott curled in pain. 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. Denver Weather In the library, the two teenagers had killed 10 classmates and wounded at least nine others. or experienced to Deputy Magor, whose patrol car is blocking the traffic on
Klebold is running behind them, but comes to an abrupt halt
In the race of their lives, some students literally ran out of their shoes. But they are having difficulty stopping the bleeding. Students
Is there anyway you can block the door so no one can get in? When I trained new people on the lines we would be jacked into the phone. In the neighborhood surrounding the school, people who lived nearby called the police to alert them to the tragedy unfolding. (Sound of gunshots.) We're not going to go to the door. shoots down the stairs hitting Anne Marie Hochhalter, From the
Fire Department dispatches a fire engine to the explosion and grass fire on
Some people see it and think they are true. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. By Susan Besze Wallace Then she was heard yelling at the students in the library, Get down! There's a very distinct difference between how the two handled [the massacre] that day. Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. Wow the hours invested. Columbine High School. The killers spotted Shoels, a football player and one of the few black students at Columbine. . I'm doing better concentrating. Many tried to shield themselves with tipped chairs. One
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 . But strangely, on the morning of the Columbine massacre, Harris warned Brooks Brown to go home just before the shooting started. But I still won't do it if it starts to make me crazy or takes time from my kids. Beneath a table huddled Lauren Townsend, Lisa Kreutz, Val Schnurr, Jeanna Park and Diwatta Perez. And they are having very much difficulty in controlling the bleeding. This is very important to fix to compare the various calls. A teacher, Theresa Miller, spent hours on the phone with 911 to deliver updates on Sanders' condition. Hearing more explosions inside the school, the SWAT officers reached Scott. Stephen Austin Eubanks, 16 in 1999. 11:14 a.m. and 11:22 a.m. Harris and Klebold leave their cars and walk into the
Yeah, I guess I can try to go, but hes right outside that door. tape from the library records the sound of many gunshots being fired during this
There were flashbacks. Then Harris aimed his 9mm carbine at the doorway window and fired. ''. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. Walker reports possibly seeing one of the gunmen through the windows on the
announces that possible hand-grenades have been detonated at the school. Copyright 1999 The Denver Post. Last Update. 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). alarm in the cafeteria is activated. Dooley sprinted for the door in front of the two killers. "You could. 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. The terror soon would follow her inside the school. Pierce Street to the south. DETAILS: On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. Focusing was a challenge. Dispatch
Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. bombs exploding in the field along Wadsworth Boulevard are intended to divert, Harris
Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers. She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. However, this corresponds with the operator saying "alright, if--" before being cut off by the caller at 0:40 in 11.29.25. Hall's right leg gushed blood, so Ireland used his hands to try to slow the hemorrhaging. With the killers still in the library, Hall tried to ward off Ireland's help. Maybe a couple more lines, but theyre inaudible. Repeat. 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. Dispatcher: Dont let him close his eyes. Now Mauser was alone under a library table. The next bullet grazed Nielson along her shoulder. Nielson: The school is in a panic. The 911 recording is currently in the hands of the Jefferson County Police Department. The
news announces reports of two gunmen at Columbine High School. Dispatch
"I'm not blaming other people," Nielson says. The fifth shot, a shotgun blast to the chest, finally knocked Kirklin off his feet. Magor sets up a road block on Pierce Street at the southeast corner of the
And the kid standing there with us, I think, I, he got hit. As she got closer, Nielson realized that the gun was real and was going to threaten Harris with campus security. assists Deputy Magor. A witness
Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. — -- 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 tapes where things were "spelled out" for us in reagrds to what dylan and eric were saying was such a stretch. The FBI one looks like: SHOT. through the lobby. "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. Without breaking eye contact, Klebold raised his sawed-off shotgun. 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. side. They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. [3] The duo placed two homemade propane tank bombs inside of the school's cafeteria in an attempt to create mass casualties. "Look at this black kid's brain! At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. 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. When dozens of students bolted from the cafeteria, Sanders moved to the school hallways to try to calm the evacuation. Police command to officers:Have SWAT when they get to headquarters, pick a staging area down south , Dispatcher talking to officer who is talking to hidden kids on cell phone:My officers that are in the school trying to find the kids on the cellphone. Tell them to start yelling so he can find them.. 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. I think shes paralyzed, the
cafeteria. Dave Sanders, are attempting to find out what is happening outside the
However, let's instead turn our attention to after 4:07, when Eric audibly yells, "Get up!" "Then, April 20, I was hiding in a cupboard, and it changed from how am I doing all this to why am I doing all this. person in the cafeteria with bulletproof equipment and several bombs.. This happens at 3:27 in Patti Nielson's call and 3:24 in 11.23.11. Dispatch
Time and again, they were savage enough to spray a classmate with bullets, hear the moans of pain, and then silence the cries with a final gunshot at point-blank range. Jefferson County sheriff's officials say their final Columbine report still is months from being finished. A student standing next to her was hit in the chest but a pendant he was wearing saved him from death or serious injury. 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.