Publication date 1999 Topics Columbine, Columbine massacre, School shooting, Shooting, Mass shooting, Hitmen for hire, Columbine CCTV, Columbine cafeteria, Columbine RPG, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold Language English. Despite
on the Internet. With two 9mm bullets in his left arm, one in the right and at least three others piercing his lungs, kidney and vertebrae, Castaldo somehow remained conscious. Kevin Walker, positioned at a southern point in the student parking lot, is able
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Neilson was in the library when she placed the call. I then needed to establish a way to compare these calls that isn't by timestamps alone. For some reason, the gunmen spared them. roof, one suspect in the library with a shotgun and several bombs, and another
We went to the police twice.". to report shots being fired outside the library. Bullets whistled and windows shattered. Taborskys
And yet, it's not a matter of just snapping out of it." Klebold is running behind them, but comes to an abrupt halt
Until I got called in to review a few training cases, and a few firing cases. Deputy
911 calls coming in, dispatch advises that a suspect has possibly left the
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units. Questions linger: why didnt police follow up on the Browns complaints? coat. When dozens of students bolted from the cafeteria, Sanders moved to the school hallways to try to calm the evacuation. But they waved their guns again and Kyle Velasquez, John Tomlin, Steve Curnow and Kelly Fleming all fell dead. their injuries, Patti Nielson and Brian are able to flee into the school library
Dan O'Shea, passed by the emergency exit that at least 30 survivors earlier had used to flee the library. "Stay tight,'' DePooter whispered. The tapes where things were "spelled out" for us in reagrds to what dylan and eric were saying was such a stretch. safe
Nielson: I cant believe hes not out of bullets. to Smoker as a gunman, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, appears on the inside of
are killed and 12 more wounded. Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. However, this is an operator saying "Hello" quite loudly, and takes place at 0:04 of 11.30.13. Klebold and Harris also have bombs constructed with timers in their
The first shot slammed Rohrbough through the back. I got all of the kids in the library on the floor.''. There are two other useful files that aren't necessary: Here is a link to my Audacity file if you'd like to listen to them yourself, and here is a link to the audio that I've put side-by-side after the shooters enter the library, with Nielson's call on the right side, and the background audio on the left side. Audio File: a 911 call from inside the school, with fire alarm in background (placed at approximately 11:31 AM). 9:19AM. 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. "I can see light at the end of the tunnel. pipe bomb is thrown over the railing from the hallway above and into the
Suspects
Nielson: I do not . Teacher
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.. Dispatch
But they are having difficulty stopping the bleeding. 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. Email. Harris
Aiming his handgun at Harris, Gardner fired four or five times from 60 yards away, but missed. Denver's independent source of An injured student (John Tomlin, 16) asks the shooters, "Haven't you done enough?" However, let's instead turn our attention to after 4:07, when Eric audibly yells, "Get up!" At 2:40 p.m., Pat Ireland summoned the strength to escape the library. one killer shouted. "Who is under the table?'' And that is definitely it. After
Paul Smoker, a motorcycle patrolman for the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office,
reports several shots fired at Columbine High School. and Klebold walk toward the food serving line in the cafeteria area. County Patrol Sgt. Focusing was a challenge. school lunch tables. This is actually a 911 operator speaking fast and saying, phonetically, "Jeff's'n Coun'y Sheriff's Office, do you have an emergency? County Sheriffs Office dispatch advises that there are possible shots fired
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. "Then, April 20, I was hiding in a cupboard, and it changed from how am I doing all this to why am I doing all this. Focusing was a challenge. I'm doing better concentrating. Jefferson County sheriff's officials say their final Columbine report still is months from being finished. Dispatch
Thats a great analysis and it clears up a bunch of the nonsense people who try to transcribe this call. Patti Nielson's Phone Number and Email. The gun is right outside my door, Nielson frantically told the 911 operator. Hoping a simple human gesture might stop the bloodshed, Steepleton peered from 20 feet away directly into Klebold's eyes. The tact team is aware of their location, its just going to be a while before they get to them. Fire Department announces that its command post is set up at Leawood and Pierce. Deputy
-Everybody get up NOW! (Dylan? sees Gardner down the hill to his right, holding a service pistol. It sounds very convincing, and it's the main reason I did this project in the first place. They have no intentions of releasing the audio in its entirety. Boulevard. I don't know if I can chime in on this, but I'm going to, way back a few years ago (2009) I was a floor manager on a call center. Nearby, a killer waved a gun at Cassie Bernall. The kids who are running with the shotguns also have Molotov-type cocktail bombs. killed and two more injured in the librarys center section before the gunmen
Sudoku A special education student who transferred to Columbine just three weeks earlier, Taylor was talking about his born-again Christianity with two Mormon classmates when the first bullet ripped through his left thigh. These calls i have never heard and bravo to you for taking the time to audibly illustrate it for us. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? And bullets ricocheted off hallway lockers. Walker, on the south side of the school, reports an explosion that blows out
One witness says Dylan says pigs are here, another says Eric said that. "On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado. Ive got students, under the table. Nielson said she's become increasingly cautious, less trusting and more focused on her "real life." a killer shouted. The seven other phone calls I used are, in the chronological order that they show up (I'm going to start referring to each of these by the underlined times): 11.23.57 Lindsay Macey's call (first minute of this is cut out), 11.23.11 Karen Nielson and Sue Caruther's call, 11.27.04 "Guns and Grenades" call (the one that I split), 11.29.25 "Suspects Near Custodial Closet" call, 11.30.13 "Assistant Principal at Columbine" call. "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. The 911
It was Klebold, wearing his Boston Red Sox cap. 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. She was raising three children, one still in diapers. Two library employees
So he ducked into the cafeteria's faculty lounge. County Deputies Scott Taborsky and Paul Smoker arrive on the west side of the
She studied post-traumatic stress disorder and reminded herself of the vow she had made in that cupboard. enforcement officers on the east side of the school report noises and shots
You had to have three people in the room listening to confirm what was heard, was said. 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. At one point during the rampage, Klebold uses racial slurs against one victim (Isaiah Shoels, 18) before Harris executes them. 16 - Patti Nielson. "I'm perfectly willing to talk to any of them. Call between teacher who is hiding with students and communicating with other hidden students in the science area. student can be seen on the cafeteria videotape crawling out of the cafeteria
The first bullet shattered the door glass and thumped harmlessly into Anderson's necklace. Now Harris and Klebold moved away from the library windows where they started. building. Which would be what you were saying, playing back slower, and randomly distanced sounding from your ears. During the incident, teacher Patty Nielson placed a call to 911 Emergency. bomb is thrown into the stairwell from the library hallway and lands in the
Nielson: O.K (shouting) I want every student in this library on the floor and you better stay on the floor! disseminating pertinent information to the initial responders. We have found so many explosive devices including several car bombs, things like that. Klebold subsequently arrives at the high school student parking lot alone in his
Ask God,'' said his mother, Jane Savage. - Columbine main page Several
Now the only sound in the library was silence - and the clinking of ammunition and bombs beneath the killers' trench coats. I think that's the start of my new year.". Nielson: Hes outside of this hall Hes in the hall There are alarms and things going off, theres smoke, my God, smoke is like coming Ive got the kids under the tables here, I dont know what is happening in the rest of the building. Patti Nielson Nielson was an art teacher at Columbine when the massacre occurred, and probably the first to warn the students about the shooters. 1982 black BMW. Dispatcher: We have paramedics, we have fire and we have police en route. GO! Klebold and Harris then pull their
The fire sprinkler system
gallon of fuel ignites in the area of the partially detonated propane bomb. inside the library entrance, continues her phone contact with the Jefferson
reports a possible shooter on the football field behind the shed. Security strobe lights pulsed. alerts the deputies that the shooter may have a shotgun. Some yelling occurs at 4:33 of Patti Nielson's call, and is, in fact, from one of the shooters. Seth Houy threw his body over Crystal Woodman and whispered a vow to take a bullet for her. - Join the discussion in Your Voice 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. Bullets whizzed closer. assumes the role of incident commander.