Uvalde Police Chief Told Children Were Alive in School During Mass Shooting: Report
was informed that children were alive in a classroom with the gunman more than 30 minutes before officers breached the room and ended one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
A dispatcher can be heard on audio recordings obtained by CNN telling the acting city police chief that"eight to nine" kids were alive and in need of help in the classroom. The call came as hundreds of officers gathered in and around RoThe dispatcher spoke with Lt. Mariano Pargas minutes after a 10-year-old girl dialed 911 from inside the adjoining rooms where the gunman had holed up.
Authorities have said the gunman did most of his shooting within minutes of entering the classroom at 11:33 a.m., but it's unclear whether there's an official tally of how many children in the room were not killed. Corina Camacho, whose son was shot and was one of the survivors, told The Associated Press that 11 children survived and their families try to stay in touch. Children have publicly recounted playing dead to avoid being noticed by the gunman.
Body camera footage previously released by the city shows that at 12:11 p.m. officers massed in a hallway outside the classroom were informed that a Border Patrol tactical team was 30 minutes away. A dispatcher can be heard saying there is a child on the line from the classroom talking of a"room full of victims." That is relayed to Pargas, who makes no audible comment on the footage.
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