Rolling Stone
‘Please Send the Police Now’: Multiple Kids Made 911 Calls While Gunman Was Inside Uvalde School
Tomás Mier
Fri, May 27, 2022, 12:04 PM·3 min read
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ple ... 16231.html
On Rolling Stone itself,
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cu ... s-1359759/
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On Friday, Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw held a press conference to discuss an updated timeline of the shooting, the police’s delayed response, and the harrowing calls made by students to 911.
“It’s better that I read it than you listen to it,” McCraw said before discussing the calls, taking a moment to collect himself.
Without naming the children, McCraw said that a student in room 112 made four emergency calls: first, at 12:03 pm for one minute and 23 seconds as she whispered her location to first responders. She called back at 12:10 and said multiple people were dead. She then called at 12:13 and 12:16 and said eight to nine students in her classroom were alive.
By 12:19, another female student had made a 911 call from room 111. “She hung up after another student told her to hang up,” explained McCraw. Two minutes later, three gunshots could be heard from a second call. At 12:36, that same student called again for 21 seconds, before making a final call and staying on the line.
“She told us that he shot the door at 12:43,” McCraw said. “At 12:47, she asked 911 to ‘Please send the police now.'”
Minutes later, the student said she could hear officers on the scene taking students out of the classrooms. Later in the conference, when answering questions from journalists, McCraw said that more than one of the 911 callers survived. He provided no further detail.
The 911 calls discussed by McCraw were made as students waited for more than 40 minutes for police officers to intervene with the school shooter, and enter the school building, despite 19 officers being on school premises. McCraw explained that instead of entering the building, officers waited to enter — after receiving a master key — since they believed the gunman was barricaded and children were no longer in danger.
“Of course, it was not the right decision,” McCraw said. “It was the wrong decision.”
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The New York Times
Border Patrol Tactical Team Was Ordered to Hold Back Before Confronting the Gunman
Eileen Sullivan and J. David Goodman
Fri, May 27, 2022, 12:09 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/border-patrol-ta ... 04118.html
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When specially equipped federal immigration agents arrived at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, the local police at the scene would not allow them to go after the gunman who had opened fire on students inside the school, according to two officials briefed on the situation.
The agents from Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived at some point between 12 and 12:10 p.m., according to the officials — far earlier than previously known. But they did not breach the adjoining classrooms of the school where the gunman had locked himself in until a little before 1 p.m. Members of the federal tactical team killed the gunman.
The officials said that members of the Uvalde Police Department kept the federal agents from going in sooner.
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