It was Klebold, wearing his Boston Red Sox cap. "Wait, there's one more thing,'' he told Harris. hear one of the gunmen shout, This is what we always wanted to do. Deputy students in that area with him. A shotgun fired and hit Townsend, Kreutz, Schnurr and Park. "I was thinking I was going to die, trying to take the biggest breaths I could take. Attention, south units. I got worked up, frustrated." I grab her. County Sheriffs Office dispatch advises that there are possible shots fired It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. Wadsworth. Injured and Survivors of the Columbine High School shooting Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. Bullets whistled and windows shattered. I returned fire with my MP-5.''. - Join the discussion in Your Voice 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. At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. What do you actually hear on the available bits of the 911 call? "And boom,'' Kirklin recalls. A shard of bomb shrapnel flew into DiManna's cheek. Deputies Deputy I think I read that she escaped to a closet or something, but in her 60 Minutes interview she only mentions hiding in the librarian desk. 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 was speaking to him. He appeared to be in shock. near a bank of phones at the entrance to the main lobby area. - How to share your thoughts Bleeding from nine bullet and shrapnel wounds, Schnurr mumbled, "Oh, my God.''. Repeat. Smoke billowed. shooter in the area. I told the captain, 'I think she's dead.' How sure are you that this is actually: Thanks! With the trainee on the phone activitily taking the call, your there and can hit a button to speak, but your muted other wise. Regaining consciousness later at Denver Health Medical Center, Kreutz remembered the pain of being rolled onto her wounded shoulder. You can hear just after the gunshot the same operator in the same call ask "where, where is that?". There was a five-minute silence. The 911 In 7 minutes, 10 people '', Klebold shrugged. 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. Focusing was a challenge. Klebold stopped. Read More. Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. The mother of 16-year-old victim Kelly Fleming described the audio as "pure hell [to listen to]." The fifth shot, a shotgun blast to the chest, finally knocked Kirklin off his feet. while Harris and Klebold are distracted by the arrival of Deputy Gardner. Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. Shots in the building. They wounded art teacher Patricia "Patti" Nielson (35) and student Bryan Anderson (17) upon entry. 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!" Gardner ''. However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. out the east main entrance, to Littleton Hospital. advises that several SWAT teams are en route. Thinking that the student was filming a video for class, Nielson began to walk toward the entrance in order to confront him. There's a very distinct difference between how the two handled [the massacre] that day. With two final blasts, the rampage was over. from the window. news announces reports of two gunmen at Columbine High School. Littleton The gunman turned towards her and fired without warning, causing bits of glass and shrapnel to slice into Nielson's shoulder. "Who is under the table?'' 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. Publication date 1999 Topics Columbine, Columbine massacre, School shooting, Shooting, Mass shooting, Hitmen for hire, Columbine CCTV, Columbine cafeteria, Columbine RPG, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold Language English. 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. In time, she says. 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. informs the command post that bomb squads from the Jefferson County and Arapahoe At one point she says she has to put the phone down and she does. disseminating pertinent information to the initial responders. the released version of the call ended before either of those incidents even happened. 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. County Dispatch asks if any deputies on scene have a long gun (a rifle or And hey if it works why fix it? outside on the southwest side of the school and gives directions where Student One raised his gun to his temple. Always tripped me out. response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises Jefferson One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. And bullets ricocheted off hallway lockers. Now Harris and Klebold moved away from the library windows where they started. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. at Columbine High School. So he was shot in the jaw? Stephanie Munson and another student walk out of a classroom into the schools Schwieterman, 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. Deputy Become a member to support the independent voice of Denver During the panic, Nielson tells the operator that she's too scared to get up and barricade the library doors because she's unaware of how close the shooter is. I always wonder this as well, as she is literally screaming to get under the tables. Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. 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. Dispatch reports a possible shooter on the football field behind the shed. Awesome, man!'' Witnesses Twenty-two steps above them, at the top of an outdoor concrete stairway, someone laughed. But some Columbine parents believe authorities ignored prior warning signsthat the massacre might have been prevented. Walcher of the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office arrives on scene. She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. independent local journalism in Denver. Sudoku the librarys east area and enter the center section, reloading their weapons The "full" 911 call of teacher Patti Nielson from the library on the day of the Columbine massacre. 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. another student, on the telephone with her mother, glances up in time to see the County Patrol Deputy Rick Searle, on the upper grassy area on the southwest side Deputy The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. Sgt. However, I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of your assessment. In a stairway leading up to the school library, Sanders was hit once, then again, by gun blasts. We went to the police twice.". Then Harris aimed his 9mm carbine at the doorway window and fired. Harris requests emergency medical response to the west side of the school. Anyways. I wanted to say your dedication to putting this all down in an orderly way is really appreciated. "She was lying in the grass crying,'' Castaldo later told his mother. A 911 She sounded like a tape recorder stuck in fast-forward. The fire sprinkler system a killer shouted. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. This is very important to fix to compare the various calls. Like, say there were no transcript available and youd never heard it before. Kirklin turned his head to the sky and saw someone standing over him. Until I got called in to review a few training cases, and a few firing cases. When he came to, he found the fuse of a palm-sized bomb sizzling beneath his table. coming from the schools northeast side. (They committed suicide around 12:08 p.m. and the operator had allegedly ended the call fifteen minutes earlier.). countys dispatch center goes into an emergency command system as the incoming 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. 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. pipe bomb explodes, several students run out of the south cafeteria doors toward "You could. Dylan April 20, 2016 the west entrance and the sounds of gunfire. Teacher: He is in science room number three. It was the Columbine rescue televised around the world. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. 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. Harris By Susan Besze Wallace The gunmen spotted Mark Kintgen, slowed by cerebral palsy, and shot one 9mm bullet into his head and another into his neck. Could it have been averted?Five years later, nobody knows exactly why Harris and Klebold went on that murderous rampage. Deputy and were going to have another SWAT team do one last search of the school, because Ive heard two three and four suspects. It was super distracting at first, but it would go away as you adjusted. Littleton The two gunmen, Harris and Klebold killed themselves in the library. Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. Dispatch When he heard the gunfire and explosions move into the cafeteria kitchen - where the killers had stashed a giant propane tank bomb that failed to detonate - Kastle ducked from the faculty lounge into a faculty bathroom. area, is dispatched to the scene of the fire and explosion on Wadsworth By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. spins hard to his right and Gardner momentarily thinks he has hit him. She was in the midst of work on a master's degree. Search the history of over 797 billion Help me! Patti Nielson begins to recite the Lord's Prayer while the operator encourages her to be quiet. 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. Denver Weather We're not going to go to the door. Shot twice in the left side of his head, Ireland dropped. County Patrol Sgt. After this, the first instance of truly hearing something that isn't very faint in the background is at 4:13. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. "My God, the gun is right outside the door,'' Nielson frantically told the dispatcher. cafeteria. Dooley sprinted for the door in front of the two killers. lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. "What are you doing? the library hallway. 22 Columbine Tapes Released - ABC News Nielson, the hiding teacher who made the 911 call, said, "They were on a power trip. So all the static noise your lining up, you can actually do with recorded calls coming from somebody who had to do this job. "The cops will come.''. Dispatch The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. She isn't always sure what to say. "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. . is writing a speeding ticket on West Bowles Avenue, just west of Pierce Street, In actuality, a 911 call received from a student Deputy I question its validity for several reasons. 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. Hall's right leg gushed blood, so Ireland used his hands to try to slow the hemorrhaging. Klebold subsequently arrives at the high school student parking lot alone in his Oh God! Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. Now the only sound in the library was silence - and the clinking of ammunition and bombs beneath the killers' trench coats. Dave Sanders, are attempting to find out what is happening outside the I pray they are getting help." Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre) by Unknown. (These instances are audible in the original release of the 911 call.). And I'm in the library. advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. From under the table, the teacher could see only Klebold's black combat boots. At 4:53, you can hear someone saying "Alright", and this is the operator of 11.29.25, and it's at 0:49. Searle, outside the building, reports a fire in the cafeteria. 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. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. Then he saw a head pop through the hole. The kids who are running with the shotguns also have Molotov-type cocktail bombs. "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. senior prank. A few tables over, Dan Steepleton, Makai Hall and Pat Ireland feared the worst was headed their way. A YouTube video shows a reconstruction[7] of how the 911 call transpired. Scott didn't know that his sister, Rachel, already had been shot outside the cafeteria. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. and Klebold walk toward the food serving line in the cafeteria area. So he lifted his right arm, which had only one bullet. Before the rampage was over, Park was hit three more times.