Immediately, Nielson and several students retreated into the school library, where she found a telephone and called 911. Scott didn't know that his sister, Rachel, already had been shot outside the cafeteria. coming from the schools northeast side. 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 . are killed and 12 more wounded. Yeah, I guess I can try to go, but hes right outside that door. school cafeteria. response to reports that one of the suspects may have left the building, several Then they went back and got Rachel Scott. One One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. O.K.? At about 4:14 in Patti Nielson's call, someone distinctly says "okay." I'm doing better concentrating. Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? Hoping a simple human gesture might stop the bloodshed, Steepleton peered from 20 feet away directly into Klebold's eyes. one killer shouted. Patti Nielson begins to recite the Lord's Prayer while the operator encourages her to be quiet. Harris shouted. I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. Nielson: The school is in a panic. call made by Patti Nielson from the library is terminated by the dispatch center Alarms blared. another student, on the telephone with her mother, glances up in time to see the senior prank. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Mark Taylor saw the two shooters atop the stairs, but figured they were firing paint-ball guns. 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?" Between caliber.. "Peekaboo!'' On the Focusing was a challenge. Many of these. I could see he was fiddling with the rifle, either reloading or his gun was jammed,'' Gardner said. The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. (Sound of gunshots.) The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. of the schools custodial staff and faculty, including teacher William Still, Kastle was convinced the killers hadn't seen him yet. Dispatcher: We have paramedics, we have fire and we have police en route. 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. deputies on scene radio their positions around the school, confirming that a Five years ago,Patti Nielson's 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. caller tells dispatch. In the library, the two teenagers had killed 10 classmates and wounded at least nine others. They wounded art teacher Patricia "Patti" Nielson (35) and student Bryan Anderson (17) upon entry. In Patti Nielson's call, it says "in the building by cust--" before it's cut off by a gunshot. The And I must say you did an awesome job doing, that most call center people deal with all the time. Awesome, man!'' Outside the school, more police arrived. 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. spins hard to his right and Gardner momentarily thinks he has hit him. 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. the ballfields. Wow the hours invested. Klebold Jefferson also confirms a live bomb at Wadsworth and Chatfield. 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. IE 11 is not supported. But they are having difficulty stopping the bleeding. 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. ambulances should come into the area to rescue them. advises that several SWAT teams are en route. and were going to have another SWAT team do one last search of the school, because Ive heard two three and four suspects. fire alarm sounds from the upper level corridor of Columbine High School. Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. Graves screamed that his legs didn't work. ''. Teacher: There are about twenty to thirty students and faculty members there. He survived. 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. A 911 [2] At 4:44 of Patti Nielson's call is when the aforementioned amateur transcripts say Eric says, "Alright, Dylan," or "I'm alright, Dylan". "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. 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. 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. cafeteria area where it explodes. Beneath the librarian's desk, Nielson whispered the Lord's Prayer. The gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. announces that possible hand-grenades have been detonated at the school. sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. Jefferson up on the roof.. Here is a link to the one that I sped up. Daily Crossword. Gardner yells This is because two seconds afterwards, at 4:19, Patti whispers, "He's yelling everybody get up right now," and repeats herself a couple seconds later. Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. Most of the . 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. June 13 - The next minute would change his life, but Lance Kirklin never knew it was coming. patrol car, Harris shoots down the Klebold hurled a pipe bomb onto the school roof. "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it." carrying two large duffel bags "We couldn't leave that little girl there,'' DiManna said. We have two dead suspects in there. Copyright 1999 The Denver Post. 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. Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. 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. Several advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. 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. 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. I think that's the start of my new year.". propane bombs in the cafeteria, Harris and Klebold go back Theyre not Band-Aids, but they have cloth to try to control the bleeding. Dispatch She isn't always sure what to say. And that is definitely it. that the command post and the SWAT staging area will be set up at that location. Smoker "In some ways I was a magnet to some people, and yet other people felt uncomfortable around me. Harris had taken off his trench coat sometime earlier, and was wearing a white T-shirt. Theyve got the rooms locked up. '', Savage ran to freedom. The first bullet shattered the door glass and thumped harmlessly into Anderson's necklace. "I'm not blaming other people," Nielson says. Too stunned to stand, Castaldo was slashed by gunfire, too. Nielsen survived the massacre, but the library became a scene of carnage. She also fell behind on her master's. Realizing Stay on the LineDispatcher: I just want you to stay on the line with me, we need to know whats going on. One Smoker fires three rounds at him and the gunman disappears Four They saw Eric Harris at the top of the outdoor stairs, wearing a black trench coat. In 7 minutes, 10 people 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. He fled through the door with a few scrapes, bruises and a belief that Klebold had spared his life. This happens at 0:46 of 11.29.25. lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. alarm in the cafeteria is activated. cafeteria videotape shows that, as the gunmen are walking away, there is a. the cafeteria after the bombs exploded. When dozens of students bolted from the cafeteria, Sanders moved to the school hallways to try to calm the evacuation. 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. Teacher He immediately is approached by a teacher as well as County Sheriffs Offices are en route. The killers spotted Shoels, a football player and one of the few black students at Columbine. At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. Two Teacher Dispatch Focusing was a challenge. How Should RTD Deal With the Drug Problem on Trains? pipe bomb is thrown over the railing from the hallway above and into the different descriptions -- the last being a white, red and blue striped shirt The kids who are running with the shotguns also have Molotov-type cocktail bombs. Why can't I just take care of my kids? Attention, south units. can see other deputies on the west side of the school near the concrete shed and Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. reports that Denver Police Department personnel are at the shed on the west side Two library employees radio traffic they are hearing and personnel are quick to arrive at the scene. Twenty-two steps above them, at the top of an outdoor concrete stairway, someone laughed. There were flashbacks. while Harris and Klebold are distracted by the arrival of Deputy Gardner. The These calls i have never heard and bravo to you for taking the time to audibly illustrate it for us. Val Schnurr (18) is heard pleading for her life as Klebold taunts her with, "Do you believe in God?" Graves saw the mayhem and ran for his life. There are two other useful files that aren't necessary: Here is a link to my Audacity file if you'd like to listen to them yourself, and here is a link to the audio that I've put side-by-side after the shooters enter the library, with Nielson's call on the right side, and the background audio on the left side. The fire sprinkler system Some people see it and think they are true. County Dispatch Center receives the first 911 call from a citizen reporting an Thank you for doing and sharing all of this research!! Fire sprinklers sprayed. In the neighborhood surrounding the school, people who lived nearby called the police to alert them to the tragedy unfolding. Nielson said she's become increasingly cautious, less trusting and more focused on her "real life." 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%. 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. units. Harris "She was lying in the grass crying,'' Castaldo later told his mother. After that, there's not anything too discernible in the last 8 seconds. I dont think Im going out there.. As Jefferson informs the command post that bomb squads from the Jefferson County and Arapahoe With more gunfire whizzing overhead, one friend, Jayson Autenrieth, pulled her to safety. their injuries, Patti Nielson and Brian are able to flee into the school library I always wonder this as well, as she is literally screaming to get under the tables. Don't forget, he said, "Look at the n-word" or whatever it was he said before they shot him. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. You had to have three people in the room listening to confirm what was heard, was said. Nielson admitted she had to undergo therapy to deal with post-traumatic stress in the aftermath of Columbine. Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. ''. shirt, students taking cover behind the patrol cars, Klebold walking directly over to the same bomb. I hope I make sense and I worked there a year before I moved to a better paying job. "I looked up right into his eyes,'' Eubanks said. Then Harris aimed his 9mm carbine at the doorway window and fired. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. Several seconds after this event in 11.23.11, the caller says "they just shot, shot somebody inside the cafeteria.". Dispatcher: Dont let him close his eyes. Security strobe lights pulsed. While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. Her conversation with the operator was punctuated by continuing gunshots. at Columbine High School. In time, she says. advises that the suspects are possibly wearing body armor. From 20 feet away, Klebold pointed his gun at Kastle. another student in the south junior parking lot. Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. Dispatch Then they spotted Nielson scrunched under the librarian's desk. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? I grab her. When the makeshift bombs failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold approached the building with four different guns and numerous pipe bombs. "There's a nigger over here!'' Dave Sanders, are attempting to find out what is happening outside the to make an immediate entry into the school. Sudoku Paul Smoker, a motorcycle patrolman for the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office, outside on the southwest side of the school and gives directions where 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!''. tape from the library records the sound of many gunshots being fired during this 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. the library hallway. side, approach the south parking lot. a killer shouted. But some Columbine parents believe authorities ignored prior warning signsthat the massacre might have been prevented. and help keep the future of Westword, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. the building. At Science Room 3, Sanders collapsed. You can hear just after the gunshot the same operator in the same call ask "where, where is that?". student Evan Todd heard a killer say. I was losing air.''. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. The recordings, were impossible some times to hear. Directly after this, another operator asks, "Can I help you?" "I realize she's shot in the head. It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. One of the faculty is injured; he was shot in the jaw. While many in this community resent the media dredging up the awful memories of five years ago, Judy Brown and her husband Randy are eager to talk about it. "He looked at us, and he smiled,'' Nielson said. a danger, Sanders and school custodians Jon Curtis and Jay Gallatine enter the to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of 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. near a bank of phones at the entrance to the main lobby area. female down in the south parking lot of Columbine High School. An injured student (John Tomlin, 16) asks the shooters, "Haven't you done enough?" New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. and the shooters enter the library. Deputy Dispatcher: O.K. Without breaking eye contact, Klebold raised his sawed-off shotgun. library toward the west windows, killing one student on the way, before they. And I'm in the library. Bookshelves and cabinets and tables blocked sight lines and made it impossible for any one student to recount the exact sequence of what Harris and Klebold did next. I pray they are getting help." In Now the school was in full panic. Oh God! The fireball scorched the ceiling and blew out tiles. Read More. Upon entering the library, Harris shouts, "Get up!" Searle reports the man is still on the roof and has moved over to the north Suspended out of sight inside the ceiling, Kastle listened. This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:07. Nielson is student Brian Anderson. Sudoku 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. This happens at 3:27 in Patti Nielson's call and 3:24 in 11.23.11. The first Thinking all the noise was a student video production, Patti Nielson, a hall monitor and art teacher, walked through a school corridor with a curious student, Brian Anderson, to ask the kids to quiet down. "Stay tight,'' DePooter whispered. I've got the kids on the floor. In the race of their lives, some students literally ran out of their shoes. 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. She got over the fear of sending her own children to school. There is no way its Eric saying "Peakaboo" or Isaiah saying "mom" on this call within seconds between each phrase.
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