Kids called 911 from classroom during Texas massacre as police waited outside: Official

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UVALDE, Texas: Nearly 20 police officers waited for nearly an hour in a hallway outside the classrooms where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a Texas elementary school, even as panicked 911 calls were placed from inside the rooms pleading for police to intervene, authorities said on Friday (May 27).

At least one child and one teacher made multiple calls to the 911 emergency number from the two connecting classrooms after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos had entered with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, according to Colonel Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Someone whom McCraw did not identify called the 911 line multiple times starting at 12:03pm, telling police in a whisper that there were multiple dead and that there were still"eight to nine" students alive, the colonel said. A student called at 12:47pm and asked the operator to"please send the police now."

 

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