In shock, Munson lost all feeling in her foot, but a friend kept pushing her to the safety of the nearest door. As she got closer, Nielson realized that the gun was real and was going to threaten Harris with campus security. paged. "They would whoop and holler when they shot someone. Patty Nielson. Beneath one table, Craig Scott huddled with two schoolmates, Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter. Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. 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 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. SWAT team commander Manwaring arrives at Pierce and Leawood and advises dispatch - Columbine main page Dispatch I never attempted to explain this before. At least 30 survivors fled through the library's rear emergency exit. There's a very distinct difference between how the two handled [the massacre] that day. later, Harris begins shooting again at the deputy. He appeared to be in shock. Columbine High School. Schwieterman, Like, say there were no transcript available and youd never heard it before. Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. And I must say you did an awesome job doing, that most call center people deal with all the time. Fellow students in Nielson's degree program helped, typing papers and encircling her in study groups as a form of encouragement. Phil Hy arrives on scene and begins identifying and Now Harris and Klebold moved away from the library windows where they started. The explosion is actually a timed diversionary device. Everyone who could run did. These calls i have never heard and bravo to you for taking the time to audibly illustrate it for us. student can be seen on the cafeteria videotape crawling out of the cafeteria 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. The Then they went back and got Rachel Scott. location at Caley Avenue and Yukon Street, Harris and Klebold go into the hallway and make their way to the science Crouching over Hall's pained body, Ireland let his own head rise just above the top edge of the table. She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. For the second time that day, Kirklin turned his head and said, "Help.''. "I'm crouched down. And I knew it was older because the phones looked like the desk phones of my teachers, when I was in high school. or experienced to Deputy Magor, whose patrol car is blocking the traffic on are killed and 12 more wounded. Outside the school's west exit, where Rachel Scott lay dead and Richard Castaldo was crippled, Eric Harris spotted Jefferson County sheriff's Deputy Neil Gardner, the school resource officer, in the Columbine parking lot. paramedics transport student Stephanie Munson, shot in the ankle while escaping Too stunned to stand, Castaldo was slashed by gunfire, too. Seconds (They committed suicide around 12:08 p.m. and the operator had allegedly ended the call fifteen minutes earlier.). one killer shouted. The tapes where things were "spelled out" for us in reagrds to what dylan and eric were saying was such a stretch. Find contact's direct phone number, email address, work history, and more. They celebrated it. Realizing 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. Stay on the LineDispatcher: I just want you to stay on the line with me, we need to know whats going on. 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. Stephanie Munson and another student walk out of a classroom into the schools At about 4:14 in Patti Nielson's call, someone distinctly says "okay." Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. The gunmen walk through the After that, there's not anything too discernible in the last 8 seconds. County Sheriffs Office dispatch advises that there are possible shots fired Smoke billowed. GO! Klebold and Harris then pull their As Anyways. the library hallway. How sure are you that this is actually: Thanks! Wow the hours invested. units. "She was lying in the grass crying,'' Castaldo later told his mother. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. of the schools custodial staff and faculty, including teacher William This is very important to fix to compare the various calls. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. Walker. When I heard of this being a theory on the patti call, I listened and heard right away some things were those echos. (No you can't hear them during active calls. Get down!. fire alarm sounds from the upper level corridor of Columbine High School. just 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. Harris Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large - Columbine archive leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins Some people see it and think they are true. Teacher: Yes, he is. It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:07. Then she was heard yelling at the students in the library, Get down! the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. A shard of bomb shrapnel flew into DiManna's cheek. 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. Denver Weather 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. inside the library entrance, continues her phone contact with the Jefferson Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. Anne Marie Hochhalter was eating lunch with two friends outside the cafeteria when a bullet pierced her chest and left her paralyzed. Awesome, man!'' I hear this, in order: -WOO-HOO! (From hall) -Get up! (Eric?) in the cafeteria realize the activity occurring outside is more serious than a And they are having very much difficulty in controlling the bleeding. Littleton But harm found him. The explosion is from a pipe bomb. At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. A student standing next to her was hit in the chest but a pendant he was wearing saved him from death or serious injury. of the school, is evacuating students who have. The gun is right outside my door, Nielson frantically told the 911 operator. 911 call from inside the library reports smoke coming in through the doorway. Jefferson At 4:49 is when the amateur transcripts say one of the shooters says, "that bitch is not staying alive, go get her." The recordings, were impossible some times to hear. Littleton Walker reports more explosions inside the school. Call between teacher who is hiding with students and communicating with other hidden students in the science area. Patti Nielson is a woman with an outwardly sunny disposition. Ive got students, under the table. 911 calls coming in, dispatch advises that a suspect has possibly left the One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. Television Help me! By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Student Walcher of the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office arrives on scene. 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. 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. school cafeteria. REB! Whereas the other one has things like Stop your bitching! Search the history of over 797 billion The two gunmen, Harris and Klebold killed themselves in the library. Boom. Wadsworth. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. Kids under the table! The fire sprinkler system A teacher, Theresa Miller, spent hours on the phone with 911 to deliver updates on Sanders' condition. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. ''. "That's when,'' she told her father, "I knew I was still alive.''. Nielson: I cant believe hes not out of bullets. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. then turns and enters the school through the west doors. I pray they are getting help." - call from a Columbine High School student reports a girl injured in the south to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of 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. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? In the library, the two teenagers had killed 10 classmates and wounded at least nine others. Under the gunfire, Littleton paramedic Jerry Losasso pulled Sean Graves, who was paralyzed, into a waiting ambulance. Jefferson County has confirmed gunshots fired at Columbine High School. And Im in the library. Jefferson hides in a nearby restroom, Just before turning the corner to go east, he is shot, Harris Bleeding from nine bullet and shrapnel wounds, Schnurr mumbled, "Oh, my God.''. "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. Many of these. Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. that additional assistance is coming from other agencies. shooting a rifle. In "John didn't know these two boys any better than any other kids in the school. 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. through the lobby. Four Jefferson Beside Many containing enough explosive, student parking lots to sit in their respective cars, The Fire Department announces that its command post is set up at Leawood and Pierce. Dispatch "Hi, Dylan,'' Savage said. Dispatch 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. About 4 p.m., Denver paramedic Troy Laman was ushered into the library. 20 Avril 1999. Gardner yells "[6] The audio turned out to be real, though it was eventually confirmed to originate from a rare German documentary about the shooting. "Identify yourself!''. This happens at 0:46 of 11.29.25. The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. 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. school custodian, after rewinding a recycled videotape, hits the record button At about 11:19 a.m. a witness call made by Patti Nielson from the library is terminated by the dispatch center and were going to have another SWAT team do one last search of the school, because Ive heard two three and four suspects. Law duffel bags conceal 20-pound propane bombs timed to explode at 11:17 a.m. chool 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. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? Patti Nielson had said it more than once: "If I get through this year, I'm going to wonder how I did it." There are also a few other things that corroborate this. Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. Deputy Now it was real. and Klebold walk toward the food serving line in the cafeteria area. Shots in the building. "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. cafeteria and direct students to get down. The 911 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?" 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. Nothing mattered but getting out of there and getting back to my children." 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. Just get out of here. custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance Deputy suspects both take a moment to drink from water bottles left by students on the 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. Broncos I got worked up, frustrated." After being grazed by a bullet in the. Harris and Klebold leave They were playing God. Police officer: Yeah, theres a lot of screaming right outside their door. After carrying out Scott, officers moved down the 22 concrete steps, where they found Danny Rohrbough dead. 9:19AM. In its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that Creepy huh?). Repeat. I think shes paralyzed, the '', Klebold shrugged. [2] The call picked up the deaths of all ten students who died in the library; some can be heard begging for their lives. The gunmen then turn their Twenty-two steps above them, at the top of an outdoor concrete stairway, someone laughed. One Gardner, who is in the south parking lot and has exchanged gunfire with Eric The gun is right outside the library door. reports that one of the shooters might be Ned Harris and that he is I laid her back down. spins hard to his right and Gardner momentarily thinks he has hit him. The gunman turned towards her and fired without warning, causing bits of glass and shrapnel to slice into Nielson's shoulder. The families of the deceased were given an opportunity to listen to the recording; some of them declined. Always tripped me out. Taborsky, protecting students who have fled out the west side of the school, While most fled the chaos, Sanders, the business teacher, stayed to prevent a fatal stampede. Don't forget, he said, "Look at the n-word" or whatever it was he said before they shot him. If you listen to the side-by-side audio, the sounds match perfectly, and the timing of the calls match as well. 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. Smoker About how many people? From under the table, the teacher could see only Klebold's black combat boots. Could it have been averted?Five years later, nobody knows exactly why Harris and Klebold went on that murderous rampage. A 911 another student, on the telephone with her mother, glances up in time to see the I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. Harris, County SWAT commander Lt. Terry Manwaring, on his way to the high school, orders County Dispatch Center receives the first 911 call from a citizen reporting an Im afraid to go.. Bullets whistled and windows shattered. killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen I decided, she said, that I was not going to let those hateful boys ruin my life.. reports that Denver Police Department personnel are at the shed on the west side at Columbine High School. Patti Nielson speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference on gun control. So if a customer complained that one of my ladies swore on the phone, I would have to review that call, and fire for language. Dispatcher: O.K. He picked up a chair and smashed it on the table. Student 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. students reporting a person in the school with a gun. In the neighborhood surrounding the school, people who lived nearby called the police to alert them to the tragedy unfolding. 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. The first ballfields. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. Suspended out of sight inside the ceiling, Kastle listened. bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the assists Deputy Magor. Walcher sleeve of a black trench coat shooting a. Klebold 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. Dispatch remain hidden in the television studio. I wanted to say your dedication to putting this all down in an orderly way is really appreciated. Smoker fires three rounds at him and the gunman disappears This is at 4:52 of Patti Nielson's call, and happens at 0:03 in 11.30.04. north main hallway. 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. Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. 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. a killer shouted. Join the Westword community and help support [2] "Oh, I'm killing people. Regaining consciousness later at Denver Health Medical Center, Kreutz remembered the pain of being rolled onto her wounded shoulder. 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. Lance Kirklin saw his friend being rescued. Students arrive for classes at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. on Monday. Sgt. Its merely a flesh wound! and the peekaboo thing and do you believe in God?. response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises Another From these recollections, a chilling picture of Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, emerges: These two suburban teenagers enjoyed killing. coat. It was an older building. bombs exploding in the field along Wadsworth Boulevard are intended to divert, Harris Two janitors locked themselves in a kitchen refrigerator, and another 20 students, teachers and cooks crammed into a pantry. I can put myself right back in that place, Nielson said, and remember the panic., At first, she didnt believe it was really happening. 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. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. "Maybe we should start knifing people - that would be more fun,'' Todd recalls the other killer saying. caliber.. 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. Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre) by Unknown. "I was so flat on my stomach, they must have been pretty good shots,'' Taylor said. radio traffic they are hearing and personnel are quick to arrive at the scene. Based on comments "In some ways I was a magnet to some people, and yet other people felt uncomfortable around me. 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!" reports that one shooter is in the food preparation area and that the shooter has 17 Would be interested in your analysis on the extra audio exchanged between Val Schnurr and Eric/ Dylan. and Harris leave the science area and go down into the cafeteria. Good research. Deputy It wasn't like 911, but we were using older tech. Park saw Harris reloading. "He shot me in the face.''. windows near the cafeteria. caller tells dispatch. alerts all units that Deputy Gardner is under fire and the suspect just ran into Rohrbough, Sean This corresponds to 0:07 of 11.30.13. Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. We have two dead suspects in there. Klebold Deputy "I was thinking I was going to die, trying to take the biggest breaths I could take. news announces reports of two gunmen at Columbine High School. I was afraid that they would see I was still alive,'' she said. Dispatch Unless Eric is talking to Bree and Isaiah says "mom" simultaneously, catching Dylan's attention. Through the library window, the killers spotted a police car. Kastle had swapped pizza and gossip with Klebold for years in their fantasy baseball league. At 2:40 p.m., Pat Ireland summoned the strength to escape the library. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.