I hope I make sense and I worked there a year before I moved to a better paying job. "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. I put her in my arms. This article has been tagged as NSFL due to its disturbing subject matter. Law
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. O.K.? before he is fatally shot. - Columbine archive Shots fired on the southwest side with a large weapon.. lights on his patrol car flashing and the siren sounding. Nielson: I cant believe hes not out of bullets. However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. They may be thinking the same thing. Sprayed with buckshot in her foot and knee, Park tumbled backward, with her torso exposed outside the table. Help me! advises of reports of two suspects with UZIs, pipe bombs and shotguns. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. Crouching over Hall's pained body, Ireland let his own head rise just above the top edge of the table. "When the year 2000 hit, it wasn't like a new year for me," she said. Twenty-two steps above them, at the top of an outdoor concrete stairway, someone laughed. leave the library. Others used hall pay phones and office phones to call 911, family, and friends. gives the command post a description of one of the suspects: Littleton
Get down!. (No you can't hear them during active calls. 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. It was the Columbine rescue televised around the world. reports possible shots fired in the library. 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. Watching Savage being released with his life, other students prayed the killing was over. He fled through the door with a few scrapes, bruises and a belief that Klebold had spared his life. Tributo a Eric Harris y Dylan Klebold. INAUDIBLE. Harris and Klebold laughed. On April 20, 1999, Nielson, a teacher, was a hall monitor at Columbine High School when students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, armed with sawed-off shotguns, a rifle and an automatic pistol. A witness
briefly enters the side entrance to the cafeteria, Harris
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 . Nielson said she's become increasingly cautious, less trusting and more focused on her "real life." I'm working to get to April 21. Dooley sprinted for the door in front of the two killers. ''. Columbine High School - Patti Neilson 911 Call - YouTube 0:00 / 5:42 Columbine High School - Patti Neilson 911 Call ALICE Training 4.04K subscribers Subscribe Share 1.6M views 6 years ago. She was emotionally strained. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Paul Magor, a Jefferson County Sheriffs deputy patrolling the south Jeffco
Could it have been averted?Five years later, nobody knows exactly why Harris and Klebold went on that murderous rampage. "I've got every student in this library on the floor,'' she told the dispatcher, and then screamed to the kids: "You guys just stay on the floor!'' It wasn't like 911, but we were using older tech. She finished out last year and she taught for the first two months of this school year before taking leave. Nielson: The school is in a panic. Denver Weather 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. Walcher
It was super distracting at first, but it would go away as you adjusted. reports shots fired from inside the school. reports several shots fired at Columbine High School. advises that several SWAT teams are en route. Dispatch
and Chatfield Avenues. Im not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up, Salazar said. Kirklin turned his head to the sky and saw someone standing over him. the cafeteria after the bombs exploded. Various Reddit users have falsely claimed to have heard the full 911 throughout the years. Rohrbough, Sean
exchanging gunfire with Harris, Gardner calls on his police radio for additional
911 call from inside the library reports smoke coming in through the doorway. - How to share your thoughts "I closed my eyes and pretended I was dead, but every time I heard a gunshot my body would jump. reports begin to provide glimpses of the incidents magnitude. However, at 4:20, a noise often attributed to this yelling is from a 911 operator, and shows up at 0:15 in 11.29.25. Maybe a couple more lines, but theyre inaudible. County Patrol Deputy Rick Searle, on the upper grassy area on the southwest side
Nielson and Anderson fled to the library, where several students had assumed that the sound of gunfire was some sort of senior prank. report 30 students have exited the school on the west side. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? "He looked at us, and he smiled,'' Nielson said. Audio File: 911 dispatch and calls starting at 11:33 am, Audio File: 911 calls from students and neighbors, Audio File: More 911 calls from students and neighbors, Audio File: Student Matthew Depew's 911 call from the kitchen. Teacher: He is in science room number three. 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. north main hallway. Jefferson
Another teacher, Doug Johnson, scrawled a message onto a dry-erase board and pressed it to a classroom window: "1 bleeding to death. pipe bomb explodes, several students run out of the south cafeteria doors toward
Smoker radios that students are saying the shooter is wearing a black trench
"He wanted to kill Brooks, said Randy Brown, so we went to the police with that. Focusing was a challenge. In time, she says. to the student, Harris tells him to leave the school because he likes him. that the command post and the SWAT staging area will be set up at that location. The fifth shot, a shotgun blast to the chest, finally knocked Kirklin off his feet. at this point. justgatheringinfo Dispatcher talking to officer: Im getting additional reports now that the parties are still inside the school, still shooting, launching grenades. Everyone who could run did. Magor sets up a road block on Pierce Street at the southeast corner of the
possibly wearing bulletproof armor. their cars, they have a clear view of the cafeteria area. That's the reason Josh, 9, Elise, 6, and Mallory, 3, have had their mom at home most of this school year - not because she has fallen apart. Oh God! She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. An example is at 1:07 in Patti Nielson's call, there's a loud gunshot or explosion and Patti Nielson exclaims, "Oh, God." Police officer: Yeah, theres a lot of screaming right outside their door. Wadsworth. 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 . For the second time that day, Kirklin turned his head and said, "Help.''. partial detonation of a bomb and a subsequent fire. With two final blasts, the rampage was over. I'm getting ready to pick her up. windows near the cafeteria. Witnesses
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. Taborsky, protecting students who have fled out the west side of the school,
A few moments later, Nielson retreats to a back storage area in the library and her voice is no longer heard during the call. "You could hear most of them going over the top (of the Blazer),'' Gardner said. library toward the west windows, killing one student on the way, before they. Wow the hours invested. She was helping write a new art curriculum. Students
At just before 4:35, a male talks and says "Page Boyd," and you can very faintly hear this on 11.29.25 at 0:30. Harris
Klebold, who wore a vest and ammo belt over his dark T-shirt, had dropped his trench coat onto the library floor. I felt something in my shoulder, Nielson said, her voice quavering slightly, I got grazed by a bullet.. Deputy
In the race of their lives, some students literally ran out of their shoes. "In some ways I was a magnet to some people, and yet other people felt uncomfortable around me. 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". "They would whoop and holler when they shot someone. He even lay motionless when a fleeing student stepped over him. Nielson has written to most of the families whose kids were killed. the double doors. Email. But harm found him. At 4:56 is when amateur transcripts say Isaiah Shoels yells "Mom." Deputy
"OK, I don't think I'm going to go out there. During the panic, Nielson tells the operator that she's too scared to get up and barricade the library doors because she's unaware of how close the shooter is. Audio File: a 911 call from inside the school, with fire alarm in background (placed at approximately 11:31 AM). The 911 operator answered the call stating "911" at 11:27:47 a.m. through the lobby. And that is definitely it. '', Four hours later, SWAT rescuers finally arrived. minute. "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. student Evan Todd heard a killer say. 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 . cafeteria and direct students to get down. Unless Eric is talking to Bree and Isaiah says "mom" simultaneously, catching Dylan's attention. Nothing mattered but getting out of there and getting back to my children." From the corner of his eye, though, he saw another girl get shot. 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. Just get out of here. Teacher
building. hear one of the gunmen shout, This is what we always wanted to do. another student in the south junior parking lot. Schnurr had heard the result when Bernall professed her faith. From 20 feet away, Klebold pointed his gun at Kastle. So he lifted his right arm, which had only one bullet. response to Magors call for mutual aid, Jefferson County Dispatch advises
the Jefferson County SWAT team and the Sheriffs Office command staff to be
One girl, facedown, was warm. You had to have three people in the room listening to confirm what was heard, was said. school cafeteria. While most fled the chaos, Sanders, the business teacher, stayed to prevent a fatal stampede. A YouTube video shows a reconstruction[7] of how the 911 call transpired. countys dispatch center goes into an emergency command system as the incoming
Alarms blared. Outside the school, more police arrived. Nielson, the hiding teacher who made the 911 call, said, "They were on a power trip. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. The
This is at 4:52 of Patti Nielson's call, and happens at 0:03 in 11.30.04. As far as the peakaboo/mom thing, I think you are correct. At 2:40 p.m., Pat Ireland summoned the strength to escape the library. The 911
Writhing in pain and smeared in blood, Kirklin yelled for his friends. Smoke billowed. 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." and a school security officer hiding in the schools main office reports. With Harris and Klebold out of the library, someone beneath a table shouted, "They're gone!