One witness says Dylan says pigs are here, another says Eric said that. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' April 20, 2016 exchanging gunfire with Harris, Gardner calls on his police radio for additional County Patrol Sgt. Columbine Library Audio (partially lost 911 call of Colorado school Nielson: Smoke is coming in from out there and Im a little afraid. Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! Harris When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. In time, she says. 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. The call was placed at 11:25 a.m.[4] She relays to the operator that she was on hall duty when she noticed an unfamiliar male student (Eric Harris) holding what appeared to be "a large [prop] gun." As far as the peakaboo/mom thing, I think you are correct. throws something in the vicinity of the propane bomb. "He was conscious. two-hour 911 phone call (from 11:29 a.m. to 1:24 p.m.) from a school secretary reports begin to provide glimpses of the incidents magnitude. Do you think the fuller transcript is legit? lower parking lot of the high school. reports that Denver Police Department personnel are at the shed on the west side "They would whoop and holler when they shot someone. positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims Gruffer voice) -HEEYYY! -the leaked bit: oh my god help me help me! and shut the fuck up!. When I heard of this being a theory on the patti call, I listened and heard right away some things were those echos. I think that's the start of my new year.". Officer to teacher: We dont have anybody in custody. ''. Kevin Walker, positioned at a southern point in the student parking lot, is able A student standing next to her was hit in the chest but a pendant he was wearing saved him from death or serious injury. Byerly reports shots fired on the east side of the building. are killed and 12 more wounded. One girl, facedown, was warm. 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?" Don't forget, he said, "Look at the n-word" or whatever it was he said before they shot him. "I wasn't going to know if I could go back unless I tried. Theyve got him elevatedthe best they can. custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance Taborsky reports hearing additional shots being fired inside the school -- large Dispatch "Maybe we should start knifing people - that would be more fun,'' Todd recalls the other killer saying. Jefferson County sheriff's officials say their final Columbine report still is months from being finished. For some reason, the gunmen spared them. The I got all of the kids in the library on the floor.''. I question its validity for several reasons. With the trainee on the phone activitily taking the call, your there and can hit a button to speak, but your muted other wise. one killer told a girl beneath a table. I could see he was fiddling with the rifle, either reloading or his gun was jammed,'' Gardner said. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' the girl replied. Apologies for the long post, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. reports shots fired from inside the school. But I don't want to impose. The gunmen walk through the Dispatch However, this corresponds with the operator saying "alright, if--" before being cut off by the caller at 0:40 in 11.29.25. This corresponds to 0:07 of 11.30.13. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. The tape of her call also records the gunmen taunting students, screams and gunshots. Jefferson windows near the cafeteria. Immediately, Nielson and several students retreated into the school library, where she found a telephone and called 911. 911 transcript/s : r/Columbine - reddit Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. also confirms a live bomb at Wadsworth and Chatfield. Nielson is student Brian Anderson. Dispatch This is really great work! Moving from a small town in Oklahoma to oh-so-sophisticated Colorado, Austin Eubanks found it difficult to fit in. Security strobe lights pulsed. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it.". and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. "They said they waited their whole lives for this,'' Woodman said. Klebold and Harris made in their homemade videotapes, the investigation Oh God! At one point she says she has to put the phone down and she does. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. hears one of the suspects say, GO! containing enough explosive, student parking lots to sit in their respective cars, The — -- 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. Please enable JavaScript to pass antispam protection!Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser http://www.enable-javascript.com.Antispam by CleanTalk. Still, Kastle was convinced the killers hadn't seen him yet. inside the library entrance, continues her phone contact with the Jefferson Anyways. student parking lot. to report shots being fired outside the library. Dispatch 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. report 30 students have exited the school on the west side. 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? Those students are trying to save the life of teacher Dave Sanders. person in the cafeteria with bulletproof equipment and several bombs.. Everyone who could run did. Help me! Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. The auditory pareidolia is real in this. Police officer: Yeah, theres a lot of screaming right outside their door. In 7 minutes, 10 people Deputy the building. Dispatch Eubanks dared to peek out from the table and saw Klebold reloading. County Sheriffs Office dispatch advises that there are possible shots fired About 4 p.m., Denver paramedic Troy Laman was ushered into the library. advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. He survived. Deputy school lunch tables. Most of the . "He wanted to kill Brooks, said Randy Brown, so we went to the police with that. suspects both take a moment to drink from water bottles left by students on the 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. Towards the 12-minute mark, a loud crashing noise is heard near the phone's receiver; Klebold was using a chair to smash a computer that was above Nielson's hiding place. 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. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. But I don't want to impose. A teacher, Theresa Miller, spent hours on the phone with 911 to deliver updates on Sanders' condition. But strangely, on the morning of the Columbine massacre, Harris warned Brooks Brown to go home just before the shooting started. Two the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be shirt, students taking cover behind the patrol cars, Klebold walking directly over to the same bomb. countys dispatch center goes into an emergency command system as the incoming Realizing "Yes, my mom and dad brought me up that way,'' Schnurr replied. Patti Nielson Nielson was an art teacher at Columbine when the massacre occurred, and probably the first to warn the students about the shooters. "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. 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. Walker, on the south side of the school, reports an explosion that blows out "And boom,'' Kirklin recalls. Gardner yells The Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. By Susan Besze Wallace Uploaded by Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. At 2:40 p.m., Pat Ireland summoned the strength to escape the library. "I did a quick peek through the window. Jefferson Deputy At least 30 survivors fled through the library's rear emergency exit. INAUDIBLE. Four Pierce Street to the south. Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. before he is fatally shot. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. I think that's the start of my new year.". REB! Whereas the other one has things like Stop your bitching! 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. I was losing air.''. '', Four hours later, SWAT rescuers finally arrived. - cafeteria below. Suddenly bullets hit Scott. Smoke billowed. Hall blacked out. The teacher - who was among the first shot, made the initial 911 call from the school library and was huddled in that cupboard, closest to the shooters when they killed themselves - isn't sure when or if she'll return to Columbine. '', Klebold shrugged. A subreddit focused on constructive discussion to better understand the events that took place surrounding the mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. They are in the science area in rooms one, two and three. In 2011, a Youtuber posted "leaked audio" of Lauren Townsend (18) being killed with Klebold's TEC-9 as Val Schnurr screams, "Oh God! requests emergency medical response to the west side of the school. They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. It always distinguishes between Eric and Dylan. Several seconds later, the caller says that, "that last one sounded like either a really big gun or a bomb." She isn't always sure what to say. He fled through the door with a few scrapes, bruises and a belief that Klebold had spared his life. ''. Into the cafeteria behind them walked Harris and Klebold. However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. area, is dispatched to the scene of the fire and explosion on Wadsworth Nielsen survived the massacre, but the library became a scene of carnage. briefly enters the side entrance to the cafeteria, Harris Behind her, the hallway suddenly turned quiet. I question that. the library hallway. also reports one person wearing a red and white shirt on the north side of the At about 11:19 a.m. a witness Sudoku "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. Hoping a simple human gesture might stop the bloodshed, Steepleton peered from 20 feet away directly into Klebold's eyes. The Denver Post Online - Columbine - Tragedy and Recovery An injured student (John Tomlin, 16) asks the shooters, "Haven't you done enough?" hides in a nearby restroom, Just before turning the corner to go east, he is shot, Harris She also fell behind on her master's. Gardner Klebold and Harris standing just inside the schools northwest entry doors. It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. She had decided she wouldn't graduate in May, but now it looks possible. Klebold, who wore a vest and ammo belt over his dark T-shirt, had dropped his trench coat onto the library floor. 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. One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. Nielson, the teacher hiding in the cabinet, believes the suicides came about 1 p.m. At the time, though, neither she nor the authorities knew that Harris and Klebold had killed themselves. through the lobby. It was Klebold, wearing his Boston Red Sox cap. students run out of the cafeteria through a side door. He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. Broncos Let's get out of here!''. 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. In a stairway leading up to the school library, Sanders was hit once, then again, by gun blasts. Patty Nielson | C-SPAN.org "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. While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. . Nielson: I cant believe hes not out of bullets. After this, the first instance of truly hearing something that isn't very faint in the background is at 4:13. "I looked up right into his eyes,'' Eubanks said. Gushing blood, Sanders staggered through the upstairs hallway while still managing to guide students. An analysis of Patti Nielson's 911 call : r/Columbine - reddit Ted Mink, the new Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado, said that Columbine has indeed caused police all over the country to revise their tactics. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. I laid her back down. their cars, they have a clear view of the cafeteria area. its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that female down in the south parking lot of Columbine High School. And I probably will never have an answer to what went wrong.. This happens at 0:46 of 11.29.25. And I must say you did an awesome job doing, that most call center people deal with all the time. and Klebold are in the cafeteria about 2 minutes. Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. County Undersheriff John Dunaway arrives at the command post and authorizes SWAT The two quickly became best friends, and Eubanks figured high school was going to be bearable after all.