Eubanks dared to peek out from the table and saw Klebold reloading. Beneath one table, Craig Scott huddled with two schoolmates, Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter. Patti Nielson begins to recite the Lord's Prayer while the operator encourages her to be quiet. Smoker
2. "I was thinking, 'I can't believe this is happening.' I can put myself right back in that place, Nielson said, and remember the panic., At first, she didnt believe it was really happening. They laughed about it. I mean.. you could hear it all, just on the recorded call. 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. 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. He picked up a chair and smashed it on the table. It was Klebold, wearing his Boston Red Sox cap. About 4 p.m., Denver paramedic Troy Laman was ushered into the library. 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. '', Savage ran to freedom. This is because two seconds afterwards, at 4:19, Patti whispers, "He's yelling everybody get up right now," and repeats herself a couple seconds later. Just try and keep the kids in the library calm. At 4:56 is when amateur transcripts say Isaiah Shoels yells "Mom." Harris and Klebold laughed. out the east main entrance, to Littleton Hospital. 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. She was in the midst of work on a master's degree. Dispatch
Why can't I just take care of my kids? 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. Patty Nielson. Walker. the building. The 911
is writing a speeding ticket on West Bowles Avenue, just west of Pierce Street,
He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting. Scott didn't know that his sister, Rachel, already had been shot outside the cafeteria. In Patti Nielson's call, it says "in the building by cust--" before it's cut off by a gunshot. 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. Boom. It wasn't like 911, but we were using older tech. Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. Broncos The gunmen walk through the
Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. Deputy
The final Columbine death toll: 15, including a mortally wounded teacher, Dave Sanders, who bled to death because police hesitated to move into the schoolhouse. Hall's right leg gushed blood, so Ireland used his hands to try to slow the hemorrhaging. web pages north main hallway. County Undersheriff John Dunaway arrives at the command post and authorizes SWAT
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side door. coat. "Wait, there's one more thing,'' he told Harris. But I don't want to impose. I wanted to say your dedication to putting this all down in an orderly way is really appreciated. Several seconds after this event in 11.23.11, the caller says "they just shot, shot somebody inside the cafeteria.". 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. Both killers moved on, leaving Scott unharmed. Harris peeled off 15 more bullets at the deputy. In time, she says. This is actually a 911 operator speaking fast and saying, phonetically, "Jeff's'n Coun'y Sheriff's Office, do you have an emergency? spins hard to his right and Gardner momentarily thinks he has hit him. Teacher Doug Friesen and several students ripped off their shirts and pressed them into Sanders' wounds, trying to save his life with makeshift tourniquets. They may be thinking the same thing. Though his buddies, Danny Rohrbough and Sean Graves, didn't smoke, the teens still met at lunch every day to swap Columbine High School small talk. Rohrbough, Sean
I'm working to get to April 21. I laid her back down. At 4:53, you can hear someone saying "Alright", and this is the operator of 11.29.25, and it's at 0:49. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises
It was super distracting at first, but it would go away as you adjusted. Kastle had swapped pizza and gossip with Klebold for years in their fantasy baseball league. school cafeteria. 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 fire sprinkler system
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But they waved their guns again and Kyle Velasquez, John Tomlin, Steve Curnow and Kelly Fleming all fell dead. propane bombs in the cafeteria, Harris and Klebold go back
a killer shouted. Now Mauser was alone under a library table. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. At 2:40 p.m., Pat Ireland summoned the strength to escape the library. Boom. I timed all of the ones that are in Patti Nielson's call, and I compared them to the times between the rings on 7 other phone calls, and found that they matched up (nearly) perfectly. Magor sets up a road block on Pierce Street at the southeast corner of the
There are also a few other things that corroborate this. Sgt. I decided, she said, that I was not going to let those hateful boys ruin my life.. and help keep the future of Westword, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. This time, it worked. placing two 20-lb. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. Could it have been averted?Five years later, nobody knows exactly why Harris and Klebold went on that murderous rampage. I cant imagine! This is really great work! reports that one shooter is in the food preparation area and that the shooter has 17
students reporting a person in the school with a gun. However, it's another 911 operator, at 0:37 of 11.29.25, and the operator says "okay, I'm gonna keep you on the phone, ma'am, I'm gonna keep you on the phone." Dispatch
Nielson: The school is in a panic. or experienced to Deputy Magor, whose patrol car is blocking the traffic on
pipe bomb explodes, several students run out of the south cafeteria doors toward
ambulances should come into the area to rescue them. two-hour 911 phone call (from 11:29 a.m. to 1:24 p.m.) from a school secretary
Together with two friends, Kirklin walked outside the cafeteria for a quick cigarette break. '', "No,'' Klebold replied. Just get out of here. Jefferson
County Patrol Sgt. Those students are trying to save the life of teacher Dave Sanders. And that is definitely it. Denver Post Staff Writer, Apr. I grab her. I was afraid that they would see I was still alive,'' she said. shotguns out of their bags. Nothing close to what I read elsewhere. ''. Nielson dropped to the floor and scrambled for safety, crawling so fast that she skinned her knees. From 20 feet away, Klebold pointed his gun at Kastle. Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. 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. assumes the role of incident commander. The terror soon would follow her inside the school. roof, one suspect in the library with a shotgun and several bombs, and another
location at Caley Avenue and Yukon Street, Harris and Klebold go into the hallway and make their way to the science
Alarms blared. I hear this, in order: -WOO-HOO! (From hall) -Get up! (Eric?) advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. I've got the kids on the floor. suspects both take a moment to drink from water bottles left by students on the
While Kirklin lay outside the school, exhaling blood with every breath, Rohrbough was dead and Graves was paralyzed. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? I never attempted to explain this before. 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. Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. Deputies
"I'm not blaming other people," Nielson says. Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. 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. alerts all units that Deputy Gardner is under fire and the suspect just ran into
Join the Westword community and help support "Look at this black kid's brain! 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. Rohrbough was silent on the sidewalk. 20 Avril 1999. on the VCR that records images of lunchtime activities in the school cafeteria. Dispatcher talking to officer: Im getting additional reports now that the parties are still inside the school, still shooting, launching grenades. hallway, She drops the phone and
According
Regaining consciousness later at Denver Health Medical Center, Kreutz remembered the pain of being rolled onto her wounded shoulder. Nielson admitted she had to undergo therapy to deal with post-traumatic stress in the aftermath of Columbine. female down in the south parking lot of Columbine High School. 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. It's been disputed over the years as to whether or not the suicides of Harris and Klebold were picked up in the recording; if the audio does, in fact, last less than thirty minutes, the deaths of the gunmen would not have been heard. "I closed my eyes and pretended I was dead, but every time I heard a gunshot my body would jump. lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. In
speaks to one student briefly outside the west entrance of the school. suspects leave the kitchen area. announces that possible hand-grenades have been detonated at the school. 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. Oh God! Jeffco
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I got all of the kids in the library on the floor.''. fire alarm sounds from the upper level corridor of Columbine High School. Colorado Attorney-General Ken Salazar said, I dont think that anything that law enforcement did was negligent, but added that hes still investigating whether the police tried to hide some of their mistakes. Shots in the building. - Join the discussion in Your Voice "I got up to him and saw he was shot in the chest,'' Phelan said. Dave Sanders, still on the second level, turns into the library hallway toward
I question that. '', Klebold shrugged. positioned by the west side athletic shed, reports that there are five victims
Five years ago,Patti Nielson's life was turned upside down by a pair of violent teenagers whose actions Nielson and the rest of this Colorado community are still struggling to comprehend. informs the command post that bomb squads from the Jefferson County and Arapahoe
So he was shot in the jaw? Until I got called in to review a few training cases, and a few firing cases. Pierce Street to the south. at this point. I thought it was probably a video production, she said, so I went out there to tell him to stop., It was then she realized it was real as one of the young gunmen turned around and fired in her direction. 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. The old tactics didnt work, said Mink, noting that now, the first responding officers that get to the scene of an active shooter engage that shooter as soon as possible to neutralize that threat., As the finger-pointing continues five years later, Patti Nielson said she has finally realized she cant alter what happened that day, adding, I cant change whatever went wrong with those boys. "[6] The audio turned out to be real, though it was eventually confirmed to originate from a rare German documentary about the shooting. Nielson is student Brian Anderson. while Harris and Klebold are distracted by the arrival of Deputy Gardner. After
Searle reports smoke coming from the building. Scooting along the pipe, Kastle accidently kicked another ceiling tile in half. of the school and they have long guns., A
This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:07. possibly wearing bulletproof armor. shooter in the area. and Klebold walk up and down the library hallway, seek safety behind
Columbine High School. out to the, From
Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. But [Harris] doesn't. bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the
on the Internet. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? Patti Nielson is a woman with an outwardly sunny disposition. Harris
They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. Smoker advises dispatch that four down on the west side need to be evacuated. Deputy
advises that the suspects are possibly wearing body armor. Seth Houy threw his body over Crystal Woodman and whispered a vow to take a bullet for her. Then they spotted Nielson scrunched under the librarian's desk. Searle, outside the building, reports a fire in the cafeteria. Help reached him too late. The "that bitch.." bit always came through very clearly to me. Last Update. There were flashbacks. Attention, south units. Several
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.