that additional assistance is coming from other agencies. A few moments later, Nielson retreats to a back storage area in the library and her voice is no longer heard during the call. Email. In a room filled floor to ceiling with files on the tragedy, the Browns explained that they repeatedly contacted police and complained that Eric Harris had threatened their son. They are in the science area in rooms one, two and three. Smoker Help reached him too late. positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims I was afraid that they would see I was still alive,'' she said. They laughed about it. Dylan Patti Nielson 9/11 Call (Columbine HS Massacre) : Unknown : Free A 911 "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. Thinking that the student was filming a video for class, Nielson began to walk toward the entrance in order to confront him. Jefferson We're not going to go to the door. - Columbine main page more pipe bombs are thrown into the cafeteria from the library hallway a floor Byerly reports shots fired on the east side of the building. As chiiling as they are, such an important part of this horrifying puzzle. — -- 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. Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. 911 Calls from Columbine High School Jefferson Lance Kirklin saw his friend being rescued. O.K.? He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. Dave Sanders, still on the second level, turns into the library hallway toward At one point she says she has to put the phone down and she does. Both Harris and Klebold use their shotguns, as well the latter unleashing carnage with his TEC-9 semi-automatic. The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. 911 calls coming in, dispatch advises that a suspect has possibly left the 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. A friend of the gunmen, Brooks Brown, also heard the recording (as investigators needed him and several others to confirm the shooters' voices). I think I want to have it behind. The gunman turned towards her and fired without warning, causing bits of glass and shrapnel to slice into Nielson's shoulder. I cant imagine! Rohrbough, Sean Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. Based on comments 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. "Run. There was a five-minute silence. ambulances, responding to Gardners call for medical assistance on the south Deputy Students An analysis of Patti Nielson's 911 call : r/Columbine - reddit 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. Jefferson alarm in the cafeteria is activated. Gardner, who is in the south parking lot and has exchanged gunfire with Eric And Im in the library. Dispatcher: O.K. caller tells dispatch. I grab her. justgatheringinfo They may be thinking the same thing. 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?" IMPD active-shooter training will include 911 call from inside Columbine attention to students inside the library. Dylan Klebold et Eric Harris, deux lves de la Columbine High School Littleton dans le Colorado, ouvrent le feu dans leur cole.Dans la lib. Remaining behind in the library, though, were severely wounded students Pat Ireland and Lisa Kreutz, as well as teacher Patti Nielson, who was hiding inside a cabinet. of the school and they have long guns., A Many of these. Bullets whizzed closer. is writing a speeding ticket on West Bowles Avenue, just west of Pierce Street, Bookshelves and cabinets and tables blocked sight lines and made it impossible for any one student to recount the exact sequence of what Harris and Klebold did next. Harris Police command to officers:Have SWAT when they get to headquarters, pick a staging area down south , Dispatcher talking to officer who is talking to hidden kids on cell phone:My officers that are in the school trying to find the kids on the cellphone. Tell them to start yelling so he can find them.. Join the Westword community and help support Searle, outside the building, reports a fire in the cafeteria. I think that's the start of my new year.". One . I hear this, in order: -WOO-HOO! (From hall) -Get up! (Eric?) Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. Theyre not Band-Aids, but they have cloth to try to control the bleeding. I hope I make sense and I worked there a year before I moved to a better paying job. On April 20th, 1999, seniors Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17) launched an attack on Columbine High School, located near the suburbs of Littleton, Colorado. leaning out of a broken window on the set of double doors into the school, begins This happens at 3:27 in Patti Nielson's call and 3:24 in 11.23.11. But some Columbine parents believe authorities ignored prior warning signsthat the massacre might have been prevented. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. "I made the decision I wasn't going to be in therapy the rest of my life. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Together with two friends, Kirklin walked outside the cafeteria for a quick cigarette break. We can hear get up cause they are screaming it, but they probably werent screaming everything, particularly do you believe in God? Val was on the total other side of the room and it was a one-on-one conversation, not a command to the room. Wadsworth. Jefferson Littleton 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. [2] I think shes paralyzed, the Beneath a table huddled Lauren Townsend, Lisa Kreutz, Val Schnurr, Jeanna Park and Diwatta Perez. 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. Harris and Klebold leave Losing blood and consciousness, Sanders told several students, "Tell my daughter I love her.''. 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. Two building. But toward the end of his freshman year at Columbine High School, he came across Corey DePooter a guy who, like Eubanks, appreciated the simple joys of golf, fly fishing and country music. Two others, Pat Ireland and Lisa Kreutz, were too wounded to move. About how many people? its late morning news program, Denvers KMGH-TV Channel 7 announces that (Sound of gunshots.) -Everybody get up NOW! (Dylan? Walcher 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. sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. 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. One witness says Dylan says pigs are here, another says Eric said that. Dispatcher: Are they applying some pressure to the jaw area? Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. gives the command post a description of one of the suspects: Littleton Harris During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. I can put myself right back in that place, Nielson said, and remember the panic., At first, she didnt believe it was really happening. Harris and Klebold started walking for the library door. Smoker fires three rounds at him and the gunman disappears Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. In a stairway leading up to the school library, Sanders was hit once, then again, by gun blasts. Deputy I was losing air.''. Boom. "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. move to the center section of the library. This article has been tagged as NSFL due to its disturbing subject matter. Pierce Street to the south. Vince DiManna and Lt. Pat Phelan inched toward the west doorway where Harris had traded gunfire with the sheriff's deputy. "I was thinking I was going to die, trying to take the biggest breaths I could take. Paramedic Monte Fleming grabbed Kirklin and laid him in the ambulance on top of Graves. (No you can't hear them during active calls. The Paralyzed on one side with two bullets in his head, Ireland dropped through a shattered library window into the arms of waiting officers. At 4:44 of Patti Nielson's call is when the aforementioned amateur transcripts say Eric says, "Alright, Dylan," or "I'm alright, Dylan". "And boom,'' Kirklin recalls. Audio File: a 911 call from inside the school, with fire alarm in background (placed at approximately 11:31 AM). About 4 p.m., Denver paramedic Troy Laman was ushered into the library. 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." Into the cafeteria behind them walked Harris and Klebold. Columbine High School - Patti Neilson 911 Call - YouTube Anne Marie Hochhalter was eating lunch with two friends outside the cafeteria when a bullet pierced her chest and left her paralyzed. They wounded art teacher Patricia "Patti" Nielson (35) and student Bryan Anderson (17) upon entry. She was emotionally strained. "Yes, my mom and dad brought me up that way,'' Schnurr replied. With four guns, 67 bombs and two hearts full of hate, classmates Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shocked the world April 20 with the worst school shooting in American history. Graves screamed that his legs didn't work. sees Klebold and Harris in the science hallway. and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. On the C-SPAN Networks: Patty Nielson is a Teacher for the Columbine High School with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Rally.Most appearances . Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. When dozens of students bolted from the cafeteria, Sanders moved to the school hallways to try to calm the evacuation. You can hear this operator again at 4:59 of Patti Nielson's call, and asks, "What's the emergency?" advises that several SWAT teams are en route. The first bullet shattered the door glass and thumped harmlessly into Anderson's necklace. Around the library there were more explosions and bullets. the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be My situation was unique among the teachers, and I think some people were afraid they'd say the wrong thing. 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. Realizing Castaldo played dead to fool his attacker. From the corner of his eye, though, he saw another girl get shot. What would you be able to actually say for SURE you can hear? She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. 9:19AM. Sgt. April 20, 2016 She finished out last year and she taught for the first two months of this school year before taking leave. One of the calls I had to split because it didn't match up. According Dispatch Patti Nielson - Inside Columbine - Google Harris and Klebold apparently were trying to detonate it from across the room with gunfire and smaller bombs. Dispatch bombs exploding in the field along Wadsworth Boulevard are intended to divert, Harris A few seconds later, Klebold is heard screaming for everyone to stand. outside the west entrance of the school. Apologies for the long post, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. Smoker in the cafeteria realize the activity occurring outside is more serious than a