A 10-year-old girl trapped with classmates and the Uvalde shooter repeatedly called 911 for help. It took officials 40 minutes to act.
, but insisted his department as a whole did not fail the community.
Time and again Khloie is told by the dispatcher to stay quiet, to keep her terrified and injured friends quiet, and to wait. There was plenty of confusion at the start of the massive response to the school shooting, which came after the gunman shot his grandmother in the head and crashed a truck near the school, both of which triggered emergency calls.
"We don't know if he has anybody in the room with him, do we?" asks an officer in the hallway outside the classrooms."He does," comes the reply."Eight or nine children."While some are talking about gas masks and shields and a command post, an emergency medic from Border Patrol arrives. He, too, knows about the children.
"Can you tell the police to come to my room?" she asks. And again, minutes later,"Can you send a policeman in now, please?" Later, Khloie tells police how she was using her teacher's phone, how she knew how to make the emergency call without having to unlock the phone as it was like her dad's.
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