I returned fire with my MP-5.''. On the last day of his life, Eric Harris arrives alone at the student parking lot at Columbine High School and parks his 1986 gray Honda Civic in a space . He survived. County Dispatch asks if any deputies on scene have a long gun (a rifle or The explosion is actually a timed diversionary device. Kirklin turned his head to the sky and saw someone standing over him. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. Last Update. Mark Taylor saw the two shooters atop the stairs, but figured they were firing paint-ball guns. 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. 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 looked up right into his eyes,'' Eubanks said. But [Harris] doesn't. She also fell behind on her master's. 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. There were flashbacks. "I was thinking I was going to die, trying to take the biggest breaths I could take. a killer shouted. I'm getting ready to pick her up. Get down!. when he hears dispatch report that a female is down in the south lower lot of The fire sprinkler system It landed about three feet in front of me,'' O'Shea said. Some say Eric was the quiet one, Athena says Dylan did much less speaking. 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. And I'm in the library. Stay down until the police come to you. agencies already are aware of the situation at the high school because of the in the cafeteria realize the activity occurring outside is more serious than a Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? Nothing mattered but getting out of there and getting back to my children." Another thing that corroborates this is a call at 11.32.23, in which a 911 operator calls Captain Boyd, and he responds with "c'mon, page me, it's Boyd," and the fact that he's called implies that they've already tried paging him, with no response. 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. justgatheringinfo This page has been accessed 20,739 times. Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. "Yes, my mom and dad brought me up that way,'' Schnurr replied. to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of Outside the school, more police arrived. Contact. The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. ambulances, responding to Gardners call for medical assistance on the south Deputy Student Jefferson Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. 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 gunfire is consistent throughout the next seven minutes. "OK, I don't think I'm going to go out there. response to reports that one of the suspects may have left the building, several Klebold stopped. advises additional gunfire being reported. A 911 Nothing close to what I read elsewhere. Ken She sounded like a tape recorder stuck in fast-forward. Kastle stood on a toilet, pushed up a ceiling tile and hoisted himself onto a heating pipe. April 20, 2016 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. different descriptions -- the last being a white, red and blue striped shirt The shotgun). Searle, outside the building, reports a fire in the cafeteria. In actuality, a 911 call received from a student Dispatcher talking to officer: Im getting additional reports now that the parties are still inside the school, still shooting, launching grenades. **THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO, JUST A REUPLOAD**Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJtexrf1xg Attention, south units. Seconds 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. caller tells dispatch. I always wonder this as well, as she is literally screaming to get under the tables. Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. Smoker Officer to teacher: We dont have anybody in custody. Dispatch Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked inside the library. (No you can't hear them during active calls. gallon of fuel ignites in the area of the partially detonated propane bomb. its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that of the school and they have long guns., A Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. The gun is right outside my door, Nielson frantically told the 911 operator. — -- 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. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. From 20 feet away, Klebold pointed his gun at Kastle. reports that one of the shooters might be Ned Harris and that he is The eyewitness accounts are full of terror and courage, heartbreak and luck. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. Above the slain student, authorities believe they saw Harris and Klebold in a library window. And Im in the library. I question that. Another thing that corroborates this is a call at 11.32.23, in which a 911 operator calls Captain Boyd, and he responds with "c'mon, page . Dylan killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen Oh God! Hall's right leg gushed blood, so Ireland used his hands to try to slow the hemorrhaging. their injuries, Patti Nielson and Brian are able to flee into the school library explosion in a field on the east side of Wadsworth Boulevard between Ken Caryl bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the And the kid standing there with us, I think, I, he got hit. Patty Nielson. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. Deputy I've got the kids on the floor. "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. Next to him, Scott curled in pain. Harris 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 . At around four minutes and twenty seconds into the call, a large explosion erupts from Nielson's end of the line. Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. We have found so many explosive devices including several car bombs, things like that. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. length of the front counter. side, approach the south parking lot. A big question you might have now is "if Patti Nielson's call started at 11.25.04, how is it possible that the call at 11.23.11 is able to be present fully?" The gunmen then turn their She had decided she wouldn't graduate in May, but now it looks possible. Suspects Columbine Library Audio (partially lost 911 call of Colorado school shooting; 1999), Lost advertising and interstitial material, http://acolumbinesite.com/victim/injured4.php#patti, http://acolumbinesite.com/911/minutes.txt, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#Perpetrators, https://lostmediawiki.com/index.php?title=Columbine_Library_Audio_(partially_lost_911_call_of_Colorado_school_shooting;_1999)&oldid=200231. call is received by the Sheriffs Office from the. DePooter was dead. Hoping a simple human gesture might stop the bloodshed, Steepleton peered from 20 feet away directly into Klebold's eyes. paged. positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims IE 11 is not supported. hallway, She drops the phone and Then they went back and got Rachel Scott. Dispatch Witnesses Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. The first shots rang out at 11:08 a.m. After killing two students and wounding several others outside the school, the gunmen entered the building. I grabbed him by the ankles and told him, 'We're getting you out of here.' Harris And the comments on these YouTube videos actually believe its what they are hearing. - Join the discussion in Your Voice The tapes where things were "spelled out" for us in reagrds to what dylan and eric were saying was such a stretch. Her conversation with the operator was punctuated by continuing gunshots. 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. And that was before two gun-wielding students changed her life. Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. Harris had taken off his trench coat sometime earlier, and was wearing a white T-shirt. Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. County Patrol Sgt. perimeter has been established and all exits are covered by law enforcement. I decided, she said, that I was not going to let those hateful boys ruin my life.. and Klebold are in the cafeteria about 2 minutes. Deputies Deputy All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Beneath one table, Craig Scott huddled with two schoolmates, Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter. 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. "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. You can hear just after the gunshot the same operator in the same call ask "where, where is that?". Taylor crumpled. Bullets whistled and windows shattered. Sgt. later, Harris begins shooting again at the deputy. 911 calls coming in, dispatch advises that a suspect has possibly left the senseless tragedy on the 110th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth that stole the lives of the strong and popular as well as the handicapped and lonely. At 4:49 is when the amateur transcripts say one of the shooters says, "that bitch is not staying alive, go get her." While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. When I needed to speak, there would be what we called the echo. onset, both suspects are seen lighting and throwing explosive, Klebold fire a semi-automatic weapon east towards, Klebold and Harris walking east down the north 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. Ambulance traffic addressing SWAT teams searching for Sanders: We are still in contact with some patients via cell phone in the school. Littleton At Science Room 3, Sanders collapsed. Behind her, the gunmen rattled off six shots. north main hallway. Let me know what you think! Creepy huh?). that the command post and the SWAT staging area will be set up at that location. 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. also reports one person wearing a red and white shirt on the north side of the Ireland closed his eyes. 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 reports more explosions inside the school. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. One Some people see it and think they are true. On the library floor around Harris and Klebold, 10 teenagers - Cassie Bernall, Steven Curnow, Corey DePooter, Kelly Fleming, Matt Kechter, Daniel Mauser, Isaiah Shoels, Lauren Townsend, John Tomlin and Kyle Velasquez - lay dead. When I heard of this being a theory on the patti call, I listened and heard right away some things were those echos. The tape of her call also records the gunmen taunting students, screams and gunshots. Dispatch lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. Its merely a flesh wound! and the peekaboo thing and do you believe in God?. [2] The call picked up the deaths of all ten students who died in the library; some can be heard begging for their lives. Dispatch They may be thinking the same thing. Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. Everyone who could run did. And bullets ricocheted off hallway lockers. Deputy The But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. coat. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. (Sound of gunshots.) Help reached him too late. of the school, is evacuating students who have. Fire Department is staged at Weaver and Pierce Streets. leave the library. A few tables over, Dan Steepleton, Makai Hall and Pat Ireland feared the worst was headed their way. "John didn't know these two boys any better than any other kids in the school. 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. The follow-up gunshot also doesn't sound any different than these "knocks," even though if, in fact, this is when Cassie Bernall was shot it would sound vastly different (considering a shotgun is significantly louder than knock on a desk). Search the history of over 797 billion But strangely, on the morning of the Columbine massacre, Harris warned Brooks Brown to go home just before the shooting started. Help me! Watching Savage being released with his life, other students prayed the killing was over. The first Daily Crossword. Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. I laid her back down. web pages "Three shots rang out. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. briefly enters the side entrance to the cafeteria, Harris Other times, they pointed their guns at a classmate but spared him for no apparent reason. Seems like they were making the transcript off witness accounts and not from actual sound, which is backwards. hides in a nearby restroom, Just before turning the corner to go east, he is shot, Harris advises that the suspects are possibly wearing body armor. students reporting a person in the school with a gun. Deputy coming from the schools northeast side. With two final blasts, the rampage was over. Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. and Klebold walk toward the food serving line in the cafeteria area. 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. Vince DiManna and Lt. Pat Phelan inched toward the west doorway where Harris had traded gunfire with the sheriff's deputy. I never attempted to explain this before. reports a possible shooter on the football field behind the shed. Fire sprinklers sprayed. The first bullet shattered the door glass and thumped harmlessly into Anderson's necklace. At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. [2] Sudoku When a second deputy's car raced up to help Gardner, Harris retreated inside the school, which echoed with a new round of gunfire and bomb explosions. When I trained new people on the lines we would be jacked into the phone. Jefferson Without breaking eye contact, Klebold raised his sawed-off shotgun. He picked up a chair and smashed it on the table. Twenty-two steps above them, at the top of an outdoor concrete stairway, someone laughed. videotape. I got all of the kids in the library on the floor.''. But I don't want to impose.