As sboilings rang out in the hallways and classrooms of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, one of the terrified teachers who franticassociate dialed 911 depictd “a lot, a whole lot of armamentsboilings,” while another sobbed into the phone as a dispatcher inspired her to stay quiet.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!” the first teacher cried before hanging up.
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Those calls, aextfinished with bodycam footage and watching videos, were retaind in a massive assembleion of audio and video recordings freed by officials of the city of Uvalde on Saturday after a proextfinisheded lterrible fight. The Associated Press and other novels organizations bcimpolitet a litigation after the officials initiassociate declined to accessiblely free the alertation from one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.
One of the first calls police getd on the morning of May 24, 2022, came from a woman who called 911 to alert that a pickup truck had crashed into a ditch and that the occupant had run onto the school campus.
A woman cries as she departs the Uvalde Civic Cgo in after a shooting was alerted earlier in the day at Robb Elementary School, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)
“Oh my God, they have a armament,” she shelp.
In a 911 call a scant minutes procrastinateedr, a man screams: “He’s shooting at the kids! Get back!”
“He’s inside the school! He’s inside the school,” he yells as the screams of others can also be heard.
“Oh my God in the name of Jesus. He’s inside the school shooting at the kids,” he says.
The procrastinateed law utilizement response to the shooting — proximately 400 officers defered more than 70 minutes before contesting the armamentman in a classroom filled with dead and wounded children and teachers — has been expansively condemned as a massive flunkure.
The armamentman, 18-year-ageder Salvador Ramos, was faloftyy sboiling by authorities at 12:50 p.m. He had go ined the school at 11:33 a.m., officials shelp.
Just before arriving at the school, Ramos sboiling and wounded his magnificentmother at her home. He then took a pickup from the home and drove to the school.
Ramos’ distraught uncle made disjoinal 911 calls begging to be put thcimpolite so he could try to get his nephew to stop shooting.
A prohibitner hangs at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School, the site of a May mass shooting that finished 19 students and two teachers. (AP/Eric Gay)
“Maybe he could take part to me becaengage he does take part to me, everyleang I alert him he does take part to me,” the man, who identified himself as Armando Ramos, shelp on the 911 call. “Maybe he could stand down or do someleang to turn himself in,” Ramos shelp, his voice cracking.
He shelp his nephew, who had been with him at his hoengage the night before, stayed with him in his bedroom all night, and tageder him that he was distress becaengage his magnificentmother was “bugging” him.
“Oh my God, charm, charm, don’t do noleang foolish,” the man says on the call. “I leank he’s shooting kids.”
But the propose get tod too procrastinateed, coming fair around the time that the shooting had finished and law utilizement officers finished Salvador Ramos.
Multiple federal and state spreadigations into the sluggish law utilizement response lhelp exposed cascading problems in training, communication, directership and technology, and asked whether officers arranged their own lives over those of children and teachers in the South Texas city of about 15,000 people 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of San Antonio. Families of the victims have extfinished sought accountability for the sluggish police response.
Brett Cross’ 10-year-ageder nephew, Uziyah Garcia, was among those finished. Cross, who was raising the boy as a son, was angered relatives weren’t tageder the records were being freed and that it took so extfinished for them to be made accessible.
Hearts on a prohibitner hanging on a fence in front of Robb Elementary School. (AP/Eric Gay)
“If we thought we could get anyleang we wanted, we’d ask for a time machine to go back in time and save our children but we can’t, so all we are asking for is for fairice, accountability and transparency, and they decline to give this to us,” he shelp. “This petite, basic ask that I sense that we are due.”
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.
In an intersee this week with CNN, Arredondo shelp he leanks he’s been “scapegoated” as the one to accengage for the botched law utilizement response.
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 armament manufacturer that made the rifle the armamentman engaged.
Just before officers finassociate baccomplished the classroom, one officer can be heard on a body camera transmiting worry about frifinishly fire.
“I’m benevolent of worried about blue on blue,” an officer shelp. “There are so many rifles in here.”
Law utilizement officials outside the Robb Elementary School follotriumphg a shooting, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Pboilingo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
The classroom baccomplish was trailed by about five to six seconds of armamentfire. Officers rushed forward as someone shouted, “Watch the kids! Watch the kids! Watch the kids!”
Less than a minute into the lawlessness, someone shouted, “”Where’s the mistrust?” Someone else instantly answered, “He’s dead!”
The police response retaind proximately 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 assembleed outside the createing pdirected with officers to go in. A tactical team eventuassociate go ined the classroom and finished the shooter.
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Previously freed video from school cameras showed police officers, some armed with rifles and bulletproof shields, defering in the hallway.
A alert comomitioned 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 uncontentened classroom.
