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   DALLAS (AP) — As law enforcement officers hung back outside Khloie Torres’   
   fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, she begged for help in a series   
   of 911 calls, whispering into the phone that there were “a lot” of bodies   
   and telling the operator: “Please, I don’t want to die. My teacher is   
   dead. Oh, my God.”   
      
   At one point, the dispatcher asks Khloie if there are many people in the   
   room with the 10-year-old, who ultimately survived.   
      
   “No, it’s just me and a couple of friends. A lot of people are,” she says,   
   pausing briefly, “gone.”   
      
   Calls from Khloie and others, along with body camera footage and   
   surveillance videos from the May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary   
   School, were included in a massive collection of audio and video   
   recordings released by Uvalde city officials on Saturday after a prolonged   
   legal fight.   
      
   The Associated Press and other news organizations brought a lawsuit after   
   the officials initially refused to publicly release the information. The   
   massacre, which left 19 students and two teachers dead, was one of the   
   worst school shootings in U.S. history.   
      
   The delayed law enforcement response to the shooting has been widely   
   condemned as a massive failure: Nearly 400 officers waited more than 70   
   minutes before confronting the gunman in a classroom filled with dead and   
   wounded children and teachers. Families of the victims have long sought   
   accountability for the slow police response in the South Texas city of   
   about 15,000 people 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of San Antonio.   
      
   Brett Cross’ 10-year-old nephew, Uziyah Garcia, was among those killed.   
   Cross, who was raising the boy as a son, was angered that relatives   
   weren’t told the records were being released and that it took so long for   
   them to be made public.   
      
   “If we thought we could get anything we wanted, we’d ask for a time   
   machine to go back ... and save our children, but we can’t, so all we are   
   asking for is for justice, accountability and transparency, and they   
   refuse to give this to us,” he said.   
      
   Jesse Rizo, whose 9-year-old niece Jacklyn Cazares was killed in the   
   shooting, said the release of information Saturday reignited festering   
   anger because it shows “the waiting and waiting and waiting” of law   
   enforcement.   
      
   “Perhaps if they were to have breached earlier, they would have saved some   
   lives, including my niece’s,” he said.   
      
   The police response included nearly 150 U.S. Border Patrol agents and 91   
   state police officials, as well as school and city police. While terrified   
   students and teachers called 911 from inside classrooms, dozens of   
   officers stood in the hallway trying to figure out what to do. Desperate   
   parents who had gathered outside the building pleaded with them to go in.   
      
   The gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, entered the school at 11:33 a.m.,   
   first opening fire from the hallway, then going into two adjoining fourth-   
   grade classrooms. The first responding officers arrived at the school   
   minutes later. They approached the classrooms, but then retreated as Ramos   
   opened fire.   
      
   At 12:06 p.m., much of the radio traffic from the Uvalde Police Department   
   was still focused on setting up a perimeter around the school and   
   controlling traffic in the area, as well as the logistics of keeping track   
   of those who safely evacuated the building. They’ve had trouble setting up   
   a command post, one officer tells his colleagues, “because we need the   
   bodies to keep the parents out.”   
      
   “They’re trying to push in,” he says.   
      
   At 12:16 p.m., someone with the Texas Department of Public Safety, the   
   state law enforcement agency, called police to let them know a SWAT team   
   was en route from Austin, about 162 miles (100 kilometers) away. She asked   
   for any information the police could give about the shooting, the suspect   
   and the police response.   
      
   “Do you have a command post? Or where do you need our officers to go?” the   
   caller asks.   
      
   The police representative responds that officers know there are several   
   dead students inside the elementary school and others still hiding. Some   
   of the survivors have been evacuated to a building nearby. She doesn’t   
   know if a command post has been set up.   
      
   At 12:50 p.m., a tactical team enters one of the classrooms and fatally   
   shoots Ramos.   
      
   Among criticisms included in a U.S. Justice Department report released   
   earlier this year was that there was “no urgency” in establishing a   
   command center, creating confusion among police about who was in charge.   
      
   Multiple federal and state investigations have laid bare cascading   
   problems in law enforcement training, communication, leadership and   
   technology, and questioned whether officers prioritized their own lives   
   over those of children and teachers.   
      
   Some of the 911 calls released were from terrified instructors. One   
   described “a lot, a whole lot of gunshots,” while another sobbed into the   
   phone as a dispatcher urged her to stay quiet. “Hurry, hurry, hurry,   
   hurry!” the first teacher cried before hanging up.   
      
   Just before arriving at the school, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother   
   at her home. He then took a pickup from the home and drove to the school.   
      
   Ramos’ distraught uncle made several 911 calls begging to be put through   
   so he could try to get his nephew to stop shooting.   
      
   “Everything I tell him, he does listen to me,” Armando Ramos said. “Maybe   
   he could stand down or do something to turn himself in,” he added, his   
   voice cracking.   
      
   He said his nephew, who had been with him at his house the night before,   
   stayed with him in his bedroom all night, and told him that he was upset   
   because his grandmother was “bugging” him.   
      
   “Oh my God, please, please, don’t do nothing stupid,” the man says on the   
   call. “I think he’s shooting kids.”   
      
   But the offer arrived too late, coming just around the time that the   
   shooting had ended and law enforcement officers killed Salvador Ramos.   
      
   Two of the responding officers now face criminal charges. Former Uvalde   
   school Police Chief Pete Arredondo and former school officer Adrian   
   Gonzales have pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of child abandonment   
   and endangerment. A Texas state trooper in Uvalde who had been suspended   
   was reinstated to his job earlier this month.   
      
   In an interview this week with CNN, Arredondo said he thinks he’s been   
   “scapegoated” as the one to blame for the botched law enforcement   
   response.   
      
   Some of the families have called for more officers to be charged and filed   
   federal and state lawsuits against law enforcement, social media, online   
   gaming companies, and the gun manufacturer that made the rifle the gunman   
   used.   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-video-released-   
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