Uvalde officials liberate 911 call and records trove roverdelighted to shooting at Robb Elementary School

A massive trove of audio and video recordings including a 911 call joined to the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School were liberated by Uvalde officials Saturday after a prolengthyed lhorrible fight. The Associated Press and other news organizations brawt a litigation after the officials initiassociate declined to accessiblely liberate the alertation.

“Maybe he could hear to me becaemploy he does hear to me, everyleang I tell him he does hear to me,” the man, who identified himself as Armando Ramos, said on the 911 call. “Maybe he could stand down or do someleang to turn himself in,” Ramos said, his voice cracking.

The caller tgreater the dispatcher that the shooter, identified as 18-year-greater Salvador Ramos, was with him at his hoemploy the night before. He said his nephew stayed with him in his bedroom all night, and tgreater him that he was disturb becaemploy his magnificentmother was “bugging” him.

“Oh my god, phire, phire, don’t do noleang stupid,” the man says on the call. “I leank he’s shooting kids.”

The call came in about 1 p.m. on May 24, 2022, about 10 minutes after the shooting had stopped. Salvador Ramos was fahighy sboiling by authorities at 12:50 p.m. He had go ined the school at 11:33 a.m., officials said.

The postponecessitate law utilizement response – csurrfinisherly 400 officers paemployed more than 70 minutes before disputeing the firearmman in a classroom filled with dead and wounded children and directers – has been expansively condemned as a massive flunkure. The Uvalde massacre was one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

Multiple federal and state spendigations into the sluggish law utilizement response laid naked cascading problems in training, communication, directership and technology, and asked whether officers arranged their own inhabits over those of children and directers in the South Texas city of about 15,000 people 80 miles west of San Antonio. Families of the victims have lengthy sought accountability for the sluggish police response.

Two of the replying officers now face criminal accuses: Former Uvalde school Police Chief Pete Arredondo and establisher school officer Adrian Gonzales have pdirected not culpable to multiple accuses of child aprohibitdonment and finishangerment. A Texas state trooper in Uvalde who had been suspfinished was reinstated to his job earlier this month.

Some of the families have called for more officers to be accused and filed federal and state litigations aobtainst law utilizement, social media, online gaming companies, and the firearm manufacturer that made the rifle the firearmman employd.

The police response take partd csurrfinisherly 150 U.S. Border Patrol agents and 91 state police officials, as well as school and city police. While dozens of officers stood in the hallway trying to figure out what to do, students inside the classroom called 911 on cellphones, begging for help, and frantic parents who had accumulateed outside the originateing pdirected with officers to go in. A tactical team eventuassociate go ined the classroom and ended the shooter.

Previously liberated video from school cameras showed police officers, some armed with rifles and bulletproof shields, paemploying in the hallway.

A alert coshiftrlookioned by the city, however, deffinished the actions of local police, saying officers showed “immeasurable strength” and “level-headed leanking” as they faced fire from the shooter and refrained from firing into a stupidened classroom.