Newly released documents reveal harrowing 911 calls and other police communications from the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.
Calls from inside a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, along with body camera footage and surveillance video were included in a mass release made by city officials Saturday after a lengthy legal battle.
The massacre, which left 19 students and two teachers dead, was one of the worst school shootings in US history.
One survivor, Khloie Torres, called for help in a series of 911 calls, whispering into the phone that there were “a lot” of bodies.
“Please, I don’t want to die. My teacher is dead. Oh my God,” Torres said.
Newly released documents reveal harrowing 911 calls and other police communications from the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting
One survivor, Khloie Torres (pictured), called for help in a series of 911 calls, whispering into the phone that there were “a lot” of bodies.
The operator asks the 10-year-old girl if there are many people in the room.
—No, it’s just me and a couple of friends. A lot of people have left, he said, pausing briefly.
Just before gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, arrived at the school, he shot and wounded his grandmother in her home. He then took a pickup truck from the house and headed to the school.
Ramos’ distraught uncle made several calls to 911 asking to be put through so he could try to get his nephew to stop shooting.
“Everything I tell him, he listens to me,” Armando Ramos said. “Maybe he could take a step back or do something to turn himself in,” he added, his voice breaking.
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 he was upset because his grandmother was “bothering” him.
“Oh my God, please, please don’t do anything stupid,” the man said on the call. “I think he’s shooting at the kids.”
Ramos entered the school at 11:33 a.m., first opening fire from the hallway, then entering two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms.
The first officers to respond to the scene arrived at the school minutes later. They approached the classrooms, but then retreated when Ramos opened fire.
As of 12:06 p.m., much of the Uvalde Police Department’s radio traffic was still focused on establishing 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 have had difficulty establishing a command post, one officer tells his colleagues, “because we need the bodies to keep the parents out.”