Uvalde 911 Calls Show Pleas for Help From Inside School Long Before Police Confronted Shooter
and a child who was trapped, calling with muffled voices. The calls were made as officers waited more than 70 minutes before confronting the gunman, a hesitant law enforcement response that has been widely condemned as a failure.
At 11:33 a.m., a man called 911 and yelled, “He’s inside the school shooting at the kids!” according to audio from the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary. A teacher hiding in a closet told the dispatcher, “There’s somebody banging at my school” and said “I’m so scared."
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