The 911 recording is currently in the hands of the Jefferson County Police Department. He was with best friend Corey DePooter in the library when the shooting began. Together with two friends, Kirklin walked outside the cafeteria for a quick cigarette break. Lisa Kreutz had survived. one killer told a girl beneath a table. patrol car, Harris shoots down the
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. response to reports that one of the suspects may have left the building, several
Suddenly bullets hit Scott. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. different descriptions -- the last being a white, red and blue striped shirt
"I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. propane bombs in the cafeteria, Harris and Klebold go back
tape from the library records the sound of many gunshots being fired during this
When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. Jefferson
Help me! 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. Graves screamed that his legs didn't work. witnesses who entered the north main hallway from adjoining classrooms see
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. call made by Patti Nielson from the library is terminated by the dispatch center
Several
minute. 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. students run out of the cafeteria through a side door. Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers. suspects both take a moment to drink from water bottles left by students on the
Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked inside the library. 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." They may be thinking the same thing. I'm working to get to April 21. After carrying out Scott, officers moved down the 22 concrete steps, where they found Danny Rohrbough dead. in the counseling hallway sees students in the north hallway running east
Nielson: I do not . Fire sprinklers sprayed. Were waiting to clear those . Many tried to shield themselves with tipped chairs. Hiding beneath a lunch table, Keni Dooley watched a gunman lob a bomb into the cafeteria and shoot it. When I needed to speak, there would be what we called the echo. "He was conscious. Columbine High School and parks his 1986 gray Honda Civic in a space assigned to
Yes they did actually say those phrases but we don't have the full call in which we wpuld even be able to hear them say this. "Look at this black kid's brain! - Victim funds and Harris leave the science area and go down into the cafeteria. Several seconds later, the caller says that, "that last one sounded like either a really big gun or a bomb." Dylan
response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises
At about 11:19 a.m. a witness
With more gunfire whizzing overhead, one friend, Jayson Autenrieth, pulled her to safety. Less than a minute after she entered the room, Nielson called 911 as she shouted for everyone in the room to seek refuge underneath their tables. 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%. I don't know if I can chime in on this, but I'm going to, way back a few years ago (2009) I was a floor manager on a call center. I'm getting ready to pick her up. cafeteria. in with 400 other backpacks and bags scattered throughout the cafeteria, the
"Let's get down to the commons,'' Klebold said. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. The ground shook. Until I got called in to review a few training cases, and a few firing cases. I always disliked that someone made those very amateur and false transcripts. alerts the deputies that the shooter may have a shotgun. The 911
Stay on the LineDispatcher: I just want you to stay on the line with me, we need to know whats going on. - Create a memorial page. side door. Two library employees
Shot twice in the left side of his head, Ireland dropped. Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. Shots in the building. With the trainee on the phone activitily taking the call, your there and can hit a button to speak, but your muted other wise. leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins
Teacher
It's incredibly difficult to listen to, even if you don't know the people they're killing or who's shooting who."[5]. INAUDIBLE. But I don't want to impose. 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. She finished out last year and she taught for the first two months of this school year before taking leave. I'm doing better concentrating. Jefferson
'', "No,'' Klebold replied. The gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. Contact. Dispatch
reports that one of the shooters might be Ned Harris and that he is
Deputy
of the school and they have long guns., A
Focusing was a challenge. 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. 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. Patti Nielson speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference on gun control. 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. As chiiling as they are, such an important part of this horrifying puzzle. Dispatch
positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims
And the comments on these YouTube videos actually believe its what they are hearing. She had decided she wouldn't graduate in May, but now it looks possible. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Tributo a Eric Harris y Dylan Klebold. Theyve got some Band-Aids. In actuality, a 911 call received from a student
Kevin Walker, positioned at a southern point in the student parking lot, is able
11:14 a.m. and 11:22 a.m. Harris and Klebold leave their cars and walk into the
Losing blood and consciousness, Sanders told several students, "Tell my daughter I love her.''. on the Internet. Denver Weather student Evan Todd heard a killer say. Kids under the table! The eyewitness accounts are full of terror and courage, heartbreak and luck. There is no way its Eric saying "Peakaboo" or Isaiah saying "mom" on this call within seconds between each phrase. "I'm out of ammo,'' Hall remembers one killer saying. She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. at Columbine High School. students in that area with him. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. "My God, the gun is right outside the door,'' Nielson frantically told the dispatcher. Im going to give this a proper read. and the shooters enter the library. and Klebold are in the cafeteria about 2 minutes. Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. hides in a nearby restroom, Just before turning the corner to go east, he is shot, Harris
Beneath one table, Craig Scott huddled with two schoolmates, Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter. reports a possible shooter on the football field behind the shed. Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. 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. He survived. Harris
Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre) by Unknown. school custodian, after rewinding a recycled videotape, hits the record button
Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. County Sheriffs Offices are en route. -Everybody get up NOW! (Dylan? Harris
Alot of people make these assumptions of what they are saying but forget the time frame of the call.. We have found so many explosive devices including several car bombs, things like that. duffel bags conceal 20-pound propane bombs timed to explode at 11:17 a.m. chool
hallway, She drops the phone and
Into the cafeteria behind them walked Harris and Klebold. They celebrated it. the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. During
exchanging gunfire with Harris, Gardner calls on his police radio for additional
Don't forget, he said, "Look at the n-word" or whatever it was he said before they shot him. In time, she says. It was super distracting at first, but it would go away as you adjusted. 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. After being grazed by a bullet in the. She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. 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. coat. "You could. Jefferson
outside the west entrance of the school. "I'm not blaming other people," Nielson says. Deputy
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. Nielson: I cant believe hes not out of bullets. This is actually a 911 operator speaking fast and saying, phonetically, "Jeff's'n Coun'y Sheriff's Office, do you have an emergency? Harris and Klebold laughed. Then they went back and got Rachel Scott. Eubanks dared to peek out from the table and saw Klebold reloading. "Hi, Dylan,'' Savage said. The Columbine High School massacre had begun. going to come to an end. windows near the cafeteria. Both killers moved on, leaving Scott unharmed. Deputy
Many
Focusing was a challenge. 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. Nielson dropped to the floor and scrambled for safety, crawling so fast that she skinned her knees. Nielson: The school is in a panic. With the growing popularity of mobile phones, many people were able to place calls from inside the school during the shootings. 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. Sudoku Now it was real. Uploaded by 911 calls coming in, dispatch advises that a suspect has possibly left the
Teacher
Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. move to the center section of the library. This is at 4:52 of Patti Nielson's call, and happens at 0:03 in 11.30.04. Deputy
As she welcomes an NBC News crew into her home, she jokes about how the place has been turned upside down by the guys refinishing the floors. Several
She also fell behind on her master's. The 911
The two teenage killers stood next to each other. perimeter has been established and all exits are covered by law enforcement. placing two 20-lb. "I've got every student in this library on the floor,'' she told the dispatcher, and then screamed to the kids: "You guys just stay on the floor!'' Become a member to support the independent voice of Denver caller tells dispatch. Immediately, Nielson and several students retreated into the school library, where she found a telephone and called 911. Nearby, a killer waved a gun at Cassie Bernall. Email. Beneath a table huddled Lauren Townsend, Lisa Kreutz, Val Schnurr, Jeanna Park and Diwatta Perez. The gunman turned towards her and fired without warning, causing bits of glass and shrapnel to slice into Nielson's shoulder. Unless Eric is talking to Bree and Isaiah says "mom" simultaneously, catching Dylan's attention. At 4:56 is when amateur transcripts say Isaiah Shoels yells "Mom." On the
Dispatch
Other times, they pointed their guns at a classmate but spared him for no apparent reason. Theyve got the rooms locked up. Sgt. Walker. SWAT team commander Manwaring arrives at Pierce and Leawood and advises dispatch
And I probably will never have an answer to what went wrong.. shooter in the area. 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. Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. Seconds later, the gunman found Taylor again, strafing the prone boy with four more bullets, including one that tore through his chest, collapsing a lung but missing his aorta by a penny's width. Ted Mink, the new Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado, said that Columbine has indeed caused police all over the country to revise their tactics. I think shes paralyzed, the
- Columbine archive He desperately hurled the bomb, but it exploded six feet away, stinging Hall and Steepleton with shrapnel wounds. Fire Department is staged at Weaver and Pierce Streets. The gun is right outside the library door. female down in the south parking lot of Columbine High School. 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. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Harris
And I'm in the library. Now Harris and Klebold moved away from the library windows where they started. It always distinguishes between Eric and Dylan. Denver Post Staff Writer, Apr. Im afraid to go.. '', Savage ran to freedom. Call between teacher who is hiding with students and communicating with other hidden students in the science area. The gun is right outside my door, Nielson frantically told the 911 operator. This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:07. Klebold hurled a pipe bomb onto the school roof. Graves, and Lance Kirklin, Klebold
When the makeshift bombs failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold approached the building with four different guns and numerous pipe bombs. Broncos Realizing
'', Beneath another table, a terrorized Austin Eubanks gripped the arm of his best friend, Corey DePooter, who somehow managed to keep calm. DePooter was dead. O.K.? Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. And I must say you did an awesome job doing, that most call center people deal with all the time. Jefferson
Dispatch
Security strobe lights pulsed. In the neighborhood surrounding the school, people who lived nearby called the police to alert them to the tragedy unfolding. The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. Still, Schnurr answered truthfully. Above the slain student, authorities believe they saw Harris and Klebold in a library window. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. The
After
The gunmen walk through the
Denver's independent source of Oh God! A few tables over, Dan Steepleton, Makai Hall and Pat Ireland feared the worst was headed their way. The "full" 911 call of teacher Patti Nielson from the library on the day of the Columbine massacre. The
students reporting a person in the school with a gun. From the corner of his eye, though, he saw another girl get shot. ambulances should come into the area to rescue them. Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. It was an older building. another student in the south junior parking lot. Searle reports the man is still on the roof and has moved over to the north
when he hears dispatch report that a female is down in the south lower lot of
Harris
of the school, is evacuating students who have. She sounded like a tape recorder stuck in fast-forward. safe
Klebold, who wore a vest and ammo belt over his dark T-shirt, had dropped his trench coat onto the library floor. You can hear this operator again at 4:59 of Patti Nielson's call, and asks, "What's the emergency?" Theyve got him elevatedthe best they can. Dave Sanders, still on the second level, turns into the library hallway toward
Yes!! Dispatcher: Is there any way you can lock the doors? is writing a speeding ticket on West Bowles Avenue, just west of Pierce Street,
Bullets whistled and windows shattered. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large
The operator is saying "Alright, I want you" then a half-second-long pause "to be as quiet as possible". Get down!. Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. Creepy huh?). out to the, From
That's the reason Josh, 9, Elise, 6, and Mallory, 3, have had their mom at home most of this school year - not because she has fallen apart. After
"That's when,'' she told her father, "I knew I was still alive.''. Help me! Under the gunfire, Littleton paramedic Jerry Losasso pulled Sean Graves, who was paralyzed, into a waiting ambulance. Harris,
"As we crossed the open door, the suspect threw what turned out to be a homemade grenade. Deputy
SHOT. Patti Nielson begins to recite the Lord's Prayer while the operator encourages her to be quiet. "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. 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. Behind her, the gunmen rattled off six shots. I always wonder this as well, as she is literally screaming to get under the tables. Anyways. Ireland closed his eyes. I question that. then turns and enters the school through the west doors. Always tripped me out. side, approach the south parking lot. Stephanie Munson and another student walk out of a classroom into the schools
So he was shot in the jaw? (Sound of gunshots.) Deputy
So he ducked into the cafeteria's faculty lounge. A teacher
Awesome, man!'' Patti Nielson is a Teacher at Columbine based in Littleton, Colorado. Many of these. She was raising three children, one still in diapers. Most of the . County Dispatch asks if any deputies on scene have a long gun (a rifle or
"Who's ready to die next?'' "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. And that is definitely it. Moving from a small town in Oklahoma to oh-so-sophisticated Colorado, Austin Eubanks found it difficult to fit in. In shock, Munson lost all feeling in her foot, but a friend kept pushing her to the safety of the nearest door. It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. Val Schnurr (18) is heard pleading for her life as Klebold taunts her with, "Do you believe in God?" shooting a rifle. - Columbine main page