The 911 calls made by children during the Texas massacre: “Please come in now!”

the police of Texas He acknowledged that it was a “wrong decision” to wait almost an hour outside the classrooms where Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two teachers in a primary school in the city of Uvaldeeven when some kids made calls to 911 from inside the rooms asking for the agents to intervene.

“From the benefit of hindsight… It was a wrong decision, periodsaid Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. “From what we know, we think it should have been entered as soon as possible,” he added.

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The 911 calls of the boys in the middle of the massacre

An unidentified McCraw student called 911 several times from 12:03 and told the police in whispers that he was in room 112 and that “there were several dead”. On his fourth and last call, at 12:16, he said that there were still between “eight and nine” students alivesaid the colonel.

A second student called 911 from room 111, although she hung up when challenged by another student. McCraw explained that in another call to the same phone around 12:21 p.m. at least three shots were heard in the backgrounddepending on the channel NBC.

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Finally, a student He called at 12:47 and asked the operator to “please send the police now.”

The officers they didn’t enter the classroom until 12:50according to McCraw, when the US Border Patrol tactical team used a janitor’s keys to open the sealed door and shoot Ramos down.

As for the reason for the delay, McCraw said the on-scene commander believed the 18-year-old suspect was barricaded alone in the classroom at the time and there were no survivors among the students. “I was convinced at that point that there were no more threats to the children and that the subject was barricaded and they had time to organize” to enter the classroom, McCraw said.

When they heard more shots, the officers in charge thought that the perpetrator of the crime I was trying to “get attention” of the Police for them to enter and then commit suicide.

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Videos that surfaced Thursday showed desperate parents urging police to enter the school during the attack, with some having to be restrained by officers.

Ramos fired at least 142 bullets at the school

The police recovered 142 replies inside the school that were shot with Ramos’s rifle, as well as nearly two dozen others on school property, McCraw said.

Survivors described horrific scenes inside the classroom. A boy told a reporter CBS in San Antonio that Ramos said: “It’s time to die”while an 11-year-old girl told CNN what smeared with the blood of a companion class to look dead.

America’s deadliest school attack in nearly a decade reopened the debate over gun portability rules and the power of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the nation’s leading gun rights advocacy group. from the country.

Trump asks to arm teachers three days after the massacre in Texas

President Joe Biden called for confronting the gun lobby and increasing gun control. From the NRA’s annual conference, former President Donald Trump made one strong defense of the weapons, attributed the massacre to the sole mental health of the attacker and attacked “the grotesque efforts” of the Democrats for greater control in the purchase of arms.

“Gun control policies pushed by the left they would have done nothing to prevent the horror That had place. Absolutely nothing,” Trump continued.

Amid applause, the former president replicated the traditional NRA script and several Republicans: he called for installing metal detectors at school entrances, reinforcing the armor of doors, arming teachers, but in no case limit access to weapons because, “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”