Chilling audio from children and teachers trapped inside Robb Elementary reveal new details about law enforcement's failure to respond quickly to the Uvalde shooting. 'Please hurry,' one 10-year-old is heard pleading. 'There is a lot of dead bodies.'
That caller was student Khloie Torres. She was 10 at the time. It would be 40 minutes from the time of her first call until law enforcement forced their way into her classroom.According to reports, the newly surfaced recordings include more than 20 calls, including those between officers and dispatchers, and reveal a chaotic response without clear communication. At least one time a dispatcher gave misinformation to personnel.
Nearly 400 law enforcement officers from more than two dozen agencies were gathered at the scene that day. The recordings reflect a growing awareness from members of the group that the response was failing. More than one officer knew at an early point that the gunman was still in the classroom with students."We're taking too long," a medic says, according to reports. That was minutes before Khloie Torres started her third 911 call. She survived the shooting.
Arredondo proceeded to handle the incident as one of a barricaded subject and not an active shooter, according to the report. Officers said they knew the gunman was in one of the rooms, but did not know what was happening behind the closed doors because they did not hear screams or cries, despite hearing several gunshots ringing out.Officers still did not breach the classroom after a responding officer's wife, a fourth-grade teacher at the school, was shot, and called her husband saying she was"dying."
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