independent local journalism in Denver. They may be thinking the same thing. lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. But mostly there was a resetting of priorities, she says. "Identify yourself!''. And they are having very much difficulty in controlling the bleeding. Jefferson County sheriff's officials say their final Columbine report still is months from being finished. "He wanted to kill Brooks, said Randy Brown, so we went to the police with that. Alot of people make these assumptions of what they are saying but forget the time frame of the call.. Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. 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. Press J to jump to the feed. Denver Weather sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. I'm working to get to April 21. Dispatch As far as the peakaboo/mom thing, I think you are correct. Warned that bodies might be booby-trapped with bombs, he felt gingerly for some sign, any sign, of life. Deputy This time, it worked. County dispatcher. Alarms blared. Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. Smoker fires three rounds at him and the gunman disappears The deputy ducked back inside his marked Chevrolet Blazer. (These instances are audible in the original release of the 911 call.). Harris rattled off 10 shots at the deputy with his 9mm carbine. A pipe This page has been accessed 20,739 times. Taylor crumpled. Klebold and Harris made in their homemade videotapes, the investigation 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. 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. Dispatch But I don't want to impose. area, is dispatched to the scene of the fire and explosion on Wadsworth hides in a nearby restroom, Just before turning the corner to go east, he is shot, Harris Sgt. Lance Kirklin saw his friend being rescued. "Yes, I do believe in God,'' the girl replied. They may be thinking the same thing. At 4:41 in Patti Nielson's call is when many amateur transcripts (the one that inspired me to do this project was this one) say when Eric says "peek-a-boo". "Who's ready to die next?'' On the Stephen Austin Eubanks, 16 in 1999. Denver's independent source of Klebold call made by Patti Nielson from the library is terminated by the dispatch center shotgun). I dont think Im going out there.. Crouching over Hall's pained body, Ireland let his own head rise just above the top edge of the table. Thank you for doing and sharing all of this research!! Boulevard. positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. minute. The FBI one looks like: SHOT. ambulances should come into the area to rescue them. She hopes her absence is being seen as running toward her family, not running away from the memories. Theyve got the rooms locked up. Oh God! Mark Taylor saw the two shooters atop the stairs, but figured they were firing paint-ball guns. While O'Shea fired into the doorway, DiManna and Phelan pulled Castaldo to safety. Sgt. Fire Department dispatches a fire engine to the explosion and grass fire on chemical storage room just east of Science Room 3, man on the roof wearing a red, white and blue striped Audio File: a 911 call from inside the school, with fire alarm in background (placed at approximately 11:31 AM). out to the, From report 30 students have exited the school on the west side. Dispatcher: We have paramedics, we have fire and we have police en route. since no more activity could be heard on the line. advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. Klebold subsequently arrives at the high school student parking lot alone in his 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 decided, she said, that I was not going to let those hateful boys ruin my life.. leave the library. — -- 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. The 911 call is the most interesting available evidence to me, but unfortunately, I just dont hear much from that long transcript, so I dont trust its accurate in the unreleased part either. ''. One Im going to give this a proper read. Oh God! 11:14 a.m. and 11:22 a.m. Harris and Klebold leave their cars and walk into the also reports one person wearing a red and white shirt on the north side of the Patti Nielson speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference on gun control. "They walked over to her and shot her again.''. They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. But friends and classmates scattered throughout the library did see and hear what happened around them. She was raising three children, one still in diapers. "I wasn't going to know if I could go back unless I tried. Gardner has just pulled up in the lower south parking lot of the school with the While I don't yet know who said it, it's someone in the 911 call center, since it's also clearly heard at 0:10 in 11.29.25. April 20, 2016 I question that. 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. Copyright 1999 The Denver Post. Harris Good research. Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. Taborsky, protecting students who have fled out the west side of the school, At one point she says she has to put the phone down and she does. Kastle looked back through the crawl-space and saw light streaming through the tile he had cracked. "Yes, my mom and dad brought me up that way,'' Schnurr replied. side, approach the south parking lot. custodian goes into the video room to change the schools cafeteria surveillance 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. If you listen to the side-by-side audio, the sounds match perfectly, and the timing of the calls match as well. I put her in my arms. "You want to ask why they let him go? It could be one or the other, but given the timing, definitely not both. 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. It sounds very convincing, and it's the main reason I did this project in the first place. Harris The chaos inside Columbine was so great that no one ever may know exactly what happened that day. A 911 radio traffic they are hearing and personnel are quick to arrive at the scene. 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. just All rights reserved. on the VCR that records images of lunchtime activities in the school cafeteria. windows near the cafeteria. Deputy "I haven't been dreading the anniversary. She was in the midst of work on a master's degree. "I'm out of ammo,'' Hall remembers one killer saying. In Deputy - Teacher A few seconds later, Klebold is heard screaming for everyone to stand. He desperately hurled the bomb, but it exploded six feet away, stinging Hall and Steepleton with shrapnel wounds. This is really great work! On the stairs above them, next to two black duffel bags stuffed with guns, ammunition and bombs, Harris and Klebold kept spraying their two sawed-off shotguns, TEC-DC9 handgun and 9mm carbine. They are in the science area in rooms one, two and three. 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. The When she does visit the school, Nielson is besieged by students who ask if she's returning. Behind her, the gunmen rattled off six shots. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. However, I'm not sure I agree with all aspects of your assessment. Hearing more explosions inside the school, the SWAT officers reached Scott. Nearby, Tim Kastle flushed with fear and dread - fear for his life, but dread because he knew one of the killers. Gardner "Look at this black kid's brain! "In some ways I was a magnet to some people, and yet other people felt uncomfortable around me. And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it.". Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Shot twice in the left side of his head, Ireland dropped. And bullets ricocheted off hallway lockers. Hall blacked out. coat. Stay down until the police come to you. Deputy This happens at 3:27 in Patti Nielson's call and 3:24 in 11.23.11. Steepleton and Hall felt their legs ripped by buckshot. An example is at 1:07 in Patti Nielson's call, there's a loud gunshot or explosion and Patti Nielson exclaims, "Oh, God." "Three shots rang out. "The cops will come.''. But Steepleton knew Klebold from time around school. She isn't always sure what to say. 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?" 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. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. later, Harris begins shooting again at the deputy. We went to the police twice.". Student However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. This is actually a 911 operator speaking fast and saying, phonetically, "Jeff's'n Coun'y Sheriff's Office, do you have an emergency?