UVALDE, Texas —Terrifying audio of May 24 911 calls from inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, emerged on Tuesday, showing how soon law enforcement was aware of the desperate situation inside the school with an active shooter.
The recordings were first published by the Texas Tribune, ProPublica and CNN.
The first two calls came at 11:29 a.m. In the third call, placed at 11:33 a.m., the caller says, “He’s inside the school shooting at the kids!”
Nineteen children and two teachers lost their lives that day.
A 911 call at 12:10 p.m. came from Khloie Torres, who was 10 years old at the time. “I’m in classroom 112. Please hurry. There is a lot of dead bodies,” she pleaded.
It would be another 40 minutes before police made entry to her classroom.
About 20 911 calls emerged on Wednesday.
Law enforcement’s response that day has been heavily criticized and continues to be scrutinized. That scrutiny resulted in the firing of the Uvalde CISD chief of police and investigations into the actions of a handful of Texas Department of Public Safety officers.
Nearly 400 law enforcement officers responded to the active shooting.
In July, 80 minutes of surveillance footage from the shooting emerged and was published by the Austin American-Statesman. It shows that heavily armed police officers, some armed with rifles and bulletproof shields, massed in the hallway and waited more than an hour before going inside and stopping the slayings.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
