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75 minutes before cops confront killer, ignoring the children’s cries for help! – ‘They’re cowards’ says teacher shot three times in Texas school shooting, who survived by playing dead for an hour after gunman killed all 11 of his students

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;302829&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>School shooting survivor Arnulfo Reyes said he will &&num;8216&semi;never forgive&&num;8217&semi; the police for &&num;8216&semi;sitting there and doing nothing for our community&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong> <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;302829&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Fourth grade teacher shot three times in Texas school massacre blasts cops for not intervening sooner <strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;302829&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Gunman Salvador Ramos&comma; 18&comma; killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in the Texas city during the rampage on May 24 in Uvalde&comma; Texas<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;302829&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>17 others were injured but survived <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;302829&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Strangely <strong>cops though at the scene&comma; made no attempt to stop the shooter for more than an hour after Police Chief Pete Arrendondo changed the status from an active shooter to a barricaded suspect situation<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;302829&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Reyes reveals he only survived by playing dead for an hour after gunman killed all 11 of his students during spree<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;302829&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He said the reason he survived was because he played dead for an hour while the gunman was on the loose <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;302829&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>All 11 of pupils in his class in Room 111 were murdered by the twisted killer&comma; who was later shot dead by cops in the same classroom <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Arnulfo-Reyes-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409327"&sol;><figcaption><strong>I will &&num;8216&semi;never forgive&&num;8217&semi; the police for &&num;8216&semi;sitting there and doing nothing for our community&&num;8217&semi; during the deadly attack says 4th grade teacher Arnulfo Reyes&comma; who was shot three times but survived&period; He is advocating stricter gun control&comma; including raising the age limit for gun ownership<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">As questions swirl around the tardy response of the Uvalde Police Department while very young children were being massacred along with their teachers by a lone gunman&comma; a hero teacher who was shot three times in the Rob Elementary School shooting in Texas has branded cops &&num;8216&semi;cowards&&num;8217&semi; for taking so long to raid the building&period; <br>Arnulfo Reyes who is recuperating from multiple gunshot wounds said he will &&num;8216&semi;never forgive&&num;8217&semi; the police for &&num;8216&semi;sitting there and doing nothing for our community&&num;8217&semi; during the deadly attack&period; <br>In an emotional interview&comma; he also revealed the only reason he survived was because he played dead for over an hour while the gunman was on the loose<br>Reyes bears the emotional scars of witnessing 18-year-old Salvador Ramos gun down 19 hapless children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<iframe width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;m3gUk3wPSMs" title&equals;"YouTube video player" frameborder&equals;"0" allow&equals;"accelerometer&semi; autoplay&semi; clipboard-write&semi; encrypted-media&semi; gyroscope&semi; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen&equals;""><&sol;iframe>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Fourth-grade teacher Arnulfo Reyes spoke to ABC News&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s recovering from multiple gunshot wounds after the shooting on May 24&comma; which saw 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos kill all 11 of his students at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&comma; Texas<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The fourth-grade teacher said all 11 of the pupils in his class in Room 111 were shot dead by the misfit&comma; who had over an hour to spare before he was finally stopped cops&period; But&comma; only after the toll of the rampage had risen to 19 dead and another 17 were left injured&period; <br>Reyes&comma; who is a fourth-grade teacher&comma; gave a heartbreaking interview from his hospital bed as he recovered from gunshot wounds to the arm&comma; lung and back&period;<br>He told <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;abcnews&period;go&period;com&sol;US&sol;News&sol;act-asleep-wounded-uvalde-teacher-recounts-chilling-moment&sol;story&quest;id&equals;85217589" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">ABC News<&sol;a>&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I feel so bad for the parents because they lost a child&period; But they lost one child&period; I lost 11 that day&comma; all at one time&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Arnulfo-Reyes-and-his-4th-grade-class-killed-in-Uvalde-school-shooting-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409329"&sol;><figcaption><strong>All 11 of Reyes&&num;8217&semi; students at Robb Elementary school were killed in the school massacre on May 24<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Reyes also revealed he was watching the animated The Addams Family movie with his students when he heard the first shots ringing out through the school&period;<br> &&num;8216&semi;The kids started asking out loud&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Mr&period; Reyes&comma; what is going on&comma;&&num;8217&semi; and I said &&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t know what&&num;8217&semi;s going on but let&&num;8217&semi;s go ahead and get under the table… get under the table and act like you&&num;8217&semi;re asleep&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he told his students&period;<br>He explained that under the school&&num;8217&semi;s protocols for school shootings students are trained to sit under their desks&period; <br>His account also highlighted failures in the school&&num;8217&semi;s emergency protocols&colon; &&num;8216&semi;No training would ever prepare anybody for this&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;It all happened too fast&period; Training&comma; no training&comma; all kinds of training &&num;8211&semi; nothing gets you ready for this&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;We trained our kids to sot under the table and that&&num;8217&semi;s what I thought of at the time&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Reyes continues&period; &&num;8216&semi;But we set them up to be like ducks&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Reyes told ABC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Salvador-Ramos-and-his-guns-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409331" width&equals;"824" height&equals;"582"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Pure Evil&colon; Robb school shooter Salvador Ramos &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in the Texas city during the rampage on May 24 in Uvalde&comma; Texas&period;17 others were injured but survived&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The 17-year veteran teacher said as he went to huddle under a table with the children&comma; he turned around to see Ramos standing there &&num;8211&semi; who then let off a burst of fire into the classroom&comma; striking Reyes three times before he went on to shoot all of his students as cops stood back for more than an hour&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;They&&num;8217&semi;re cowards&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Reyes said of the officers on the scene&period; &&num;8216&semi;They sit there and did nothing for our community&period; They took a long time to go in&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I will never forgive them&period;&&num;8217&semi;  <br>Reyes offered a mind-numbing account of the horrific massacre&comma; describing multiple encounters with Ramos&period; <br>Reyes was with his students in Room 111&comma; one of the adjoining classrooms where the teenage shooter carried out the massacre and where he was killed by police&period; <br>After injuring and incapacitating the teacher&comma; Ramos turned his AR-15 style rifle on his young students&comma; most of them in their third and fourth grades&period; Survival instinct kicking in&comma; Reyes took his own advice and feigned unconsciousness on the ground&comma; as Ramos shot him again&comma; this time piercing his back and lung&period;   <br>The severely injured teacher heard Ramos working his way through classrooms&comma; firing and continuing his spree&period; He also heard police officers outside his classroom as a student next door in Room 112&comma; was calling out for help&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Law-enfocement-outside-Robb-School-in-Uvalde-after-mass-shooting-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409334"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Law enforcement arrived at the school within minutes of the shooting Rampage by Ramos at Robb Elementary School&comma; on July 24&period; Survivor Arnulfo Reyes slammed the police response&period; Officers gave the killer over 75 minutes before the intervened<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">However&comma; he said he thinks the police had left by that time&comma; moving on down the corridor and so he didn&&num;8217&semi;t hear the cries for help&comma; while Ramos hid behind Reyes&&num;8217&semi; desk&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;One of the students from the next-door classroom was saying&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Officer&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re in here&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re in here&period;&&num;8217&semi; But they had already left&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Reyes said&period; <br>After that&comma; Reyes said the shooter then got up from behind his desk and went back into room 112&comma; and continued his rampage&period; <br>According to Reyes&comma; officers eventually returned to Room 111 &&num;8211&semi; his classroom &&num;8211&semi; for a second time&period; He heard them pleading with Ramos to come out&comma; assuring him that they just wanted to speak with him&comma; and would not hurt him&period;<br>There was silence&comma; he said&comma; before cops finally breached the door and shot the gunman&period; Ramos died instantly&period; However&comma; all 11 students in Room 111 were already dead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Parents-and-relatives-weeping-outside-Robb-School-in-Uvalde-after-mass-shooting-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409335"&sol;><figcaption><strong>This troubling image captures the anguish of parents&comma; relatives and members of the public begging law enforcement to get involved&comma; to no avail&period; A woman is seen here crying as she left the Uvalde Civic Center on May 24<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Reyes also described in his interview how the school failed to properly prepare for such a shooting&comma; despite holding active shooter drills&comma; the last&comma; just weeks before the shooting&period;<br>During those trainings&comma; he said he noticed the outside door nearest his classroom would not lock&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;When that would happen&comma; I would tell my principal&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Hey&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m going to get in trouble again&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re going to come and tell you that I left my door unlocked&comma; which I didn&&num;8217&semi;t&period;&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8216&semi;But the latch was stuck&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Reyes said&period;  Now&comma; as he recovers from his gunshot wounds at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio&comma; Texas&comma; Reyes is calling for more gun control&comma; telling ABC News&colon; &&num;8216&semi;If you want to buy a gun&comma; you want to own a gun&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s fine&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;But the age limit has to change&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period; &&num;8216&semi;And I think they need to do more background checks on it&period; Things just have to change&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Reyes said&period; &&num;8216&semi;It must change&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Law-enfocement-outside-Robb-School-in-Uvalde-after-mass-shooting-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409338"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Inexplicably&comma; Uvalde PD officers though at the scene&comma; made no attempt to stop the shooter &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; for more than an hour after Uvalde Schools Police Chief Pete Arrendondo changed the status from an active shooter to a barricaded suspect situation<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Back-door-at-Robb-School-in-Uvalde-after-mass-shooting-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409342"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Reyes said he has previously raised concerns about the back door near his classroom not locking during previous active shooter trainings&comma; but school authorities did nothing about the safety issue<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Arnulfo-Reyes-thanks-well-wishers-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409344"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Reyes posted a public message on social media last week thanking friends for their prayers and love<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Reyes posted a public message on social media last week thanking friends for their prayers and love&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I have long journey ahead&comma; but I know I&&num;8217&semi;ll get through it&period; My thoughts and prayers are with the families who continue to grieve their loved ones&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Reyes&comma; who runs a small plant and gift store when not teaching&period; <br>One student who survived the shooting&comma; 10-year-old Khloie Torres&comma; told a 911 dispatcher at 12&colon;10 pm &&num;8211&semi; after the shooting had started &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8216&semi;There is a lot of bodies&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Khloie added that one of her teachers had been shot but was still alive and begged for help from Room 112&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to die&comma; my teacher is dead&comma; my teacher is dead&comma; please send help&comma; send help for my teacher&comma; she is shot but still alive&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the desperate girl pleaded&period; <br>The fourth-grader did not specify if it was Irma Garcia or Eva Mireles- the two teachers shot and killed- who was injured&period; <br>The 10-year-old stayed on the line for about 17 minutes- and 11 minutes into the call&comma; the sound of gunfire could be heard in the background&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Wooden-crosses-at-a-memorial-dedicated-to-the-Robb-Elementary-School-mass-shootting-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409350"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Wooden crosses are placed to memorialize victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&comma; Texas&period; The 18-year-old gunman killed 19 school children and two of their teachers <strong>on May 24<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Khloie said her fourth grade classroom in Room 112 were watching a movie when her teacher&comma; Irma Garcia&comma; told the class to go into lockdown- turning off the movie and rushing to lock the classroom door&comma; the Times reported&period;  <br>But Garcia struggled to find the keys to the door and by the time she found the right key 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos was outside the door&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;He grabbed the door&comma; and he opened it&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Khloie said&period; <br>As Khloie and her classmates hid under tables she said she heard Ramos say &&num;8216&semi;you&&num;8217&semi;ll die&&num;8217&semi; and fire his gun while Garcia tried to protect her students&period; The 10-year-old said she also heard Ramos say &&num;8216&semi;good night&&num;8217&semi; before shooting at her classmates&period; <br>When one student who was struck shouted out &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m shot&&num;8217&semi; he caught Ramos&&num;8217&semi;s attention&comma; who returned to the wounded child and shot them dead&comma; Khloie told the Times&period; <br>As Ramos moved between the adjoining classroom where teacher Eva Mireles was&comma;  Khloie said she took the chance to call out quietly&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Is anybody OK&quest; Is anybody hurt&quest;&&num;8217&semi; to which one classmate responded&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Yeah&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Just be quiet&comma; so he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t come back in here&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Khloie said she replied&period;<br>She said one of her other classmates asked for help getting Ms&period; Garcia&&num;8217&semi;s body off her&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Salvador-Ramos-and-his-guns-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409360"&sol;><figcaption><strong>School shooter Salvador Ramos abandoned this AR-15 next to his crashed pick-up truck&period; He bought the gun two days after his 18th birthday <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The 10-year-old&&num;8217&semi;s call came 37 minutes after Ramos entered the campus and an entire 40 minutes before authorities swooped in and shot and killed the gunman&period; <br>Her 911 call is another piece of evidence that proves if police had acted more swiftly lives could have been saved&period; <br>Tensions are growing between the state and local authorities over how police handled the shooting and communicated what happened to the public&comma; while calls are growing for gun control legislation to be introduced&period; <br>Ramos slipped through an unlocked door into adjoining fourth-grade classrooms at 11&colon;33&comma; authorities said and spent roughly 80 minutes inside the school&comma; and more than an hour passed from when the first officers followed him into the building and when he was killed by law enforcement&comma; according to an official timeline&period;<br>A minute-by-minute break down of how cops waited outside class while kids called 911 after gunman walked through door that had been propped open by a teacher shows that Salvador Ramos crashed his truck at 11&period;28 am&comma; which he abandoned clutching an AR-15&period; Witnesses in a funeral home next to the school called 911 to report sighting a man with a gun walking towards the school&period; <br>Within five minutes he was in the parking lot of Robb Elementary school&period; He starts shooting at the school building using the parked vehicles as camouflage&period; <br>The shooting began at 11&period;31am&period; <br>A minute later the school resource officer who arrived in a patrol car after hearing 911 call about truck crash&comma; but proceeds to drive past the shooter&period; Unchallenged&comma; the gunman was inside the school building in a couple minutes&period;<br>His first attacked rooms 111 and 112&comma; where he fired more than 100 rounds&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;image-11&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409388"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Mourners were seen visiting a memorial at Robb Elementary School created to honor the victims killed in the recent school shooting&comma; Friday&comma; June 3&comma; 2022&comma; in Uvalde<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Three minutes into the school house rampage at 11&period;35am&comma; three police officers from the Uvalde Police Department entered the same propped door used by the suspect&period; They were later joined by another four cops&comma; swelling the total of officers on scene to seven&period; <br>However&comma; after they were grazed by bullets in a direct approach to the closed door the first responding officers retreated and refused to approach again <br>Continuing his rampage the shooter allegedly&comma; fired another 16 rounds inside the classroom&period; However&comma; at this point the Police sergeant and US Border guards had arrived and the by noon&comma; more cops had entered the building&comma; numbering up to 19 officers in that hallway at that time&period; <br>Law enforcement received a call at 12&period;03 a girl from inside the classroom who called 911 and whispers that she is in room 112&period; Seven minutes later the same girl calls back and advises &&num;8216&semi;there are multiple dead&&num;8217&semi;&period; With rescue not forthcoming&comma; she called back three minutes later&period; <br>A minute after the BORTAC &lpar;SWAT&rpar; members arrive with shields at 12&period;15pm&comma; the same little girl called 911 for the fourth time in 13 minutes asking for help&period; She let cops know there are &&num;8216&semi;8-9 students alive&&num;8217&semi; in classroom 112&period; <br>Still awaiting help at 12&period;19pm&comma; a different child from classroom 111 called 911&comma; only to hang up after another student told her to be quiet&comma; only for the gunman to resume firing within a couple of minutes&period;<br>Almost a half hour later one of the children who called earlier&comma; dialed 911 again at 12&period;26pm and told the operator that the gunman had just &&num;8216&semi;shot at the door&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>At 12&period;43pm relief had not come as the girl was still on the line pleading &&num;8216&semi;please send the police now&&num;8217&semi;&period; But it was not until 12&period;50pm that law enforcement finally breached the door using keys from the janitor&period;<br>The killed gunman immediately and started moving children out of the room&period;<a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<iframe title&equals;"VideoPress Video Player" aria-label&equals;'VideoPress Video Player' width&equals;'620' height&equals;'348' src&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;videopress&period;com&sol;embed&sol;wwYmUDCp&quest;cover&equals;1&amp&semi;preloadContent&equals;metadata&amp&semi;useAverageColor&equals;1&amp&semi;hd&equals;0' frameborder&equals;'0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent&equals;"true" allow&equals;'clipboard-write'><&sol;iframe><script src&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;v0&period;wordpress&period;com&sol;js&sol;next&sol;videopress-iframe&period;js&quest;m&equals;1674852142'><&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div><figcaption><strong>Locals are displeased with the response of police chief Pete Arredondo and his men as the school shooting unfolded<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The state agency investigating the mass shooting has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded&comma; a Texas state senator said on Friday&period; <br>Sen&period; Roland Gutierrez told The Associated Press in a brief telephone interview that a Texas Department of Public Safety official told him school district police Chief Pete Arredondo was without a radio during the May 24 attack&period; <br>Authorities have not said how Arredondo was communicating with other law enforcement officials at the scene&comma; including the more than a dozen officers who were at one point waiting outside the classroom where the gunman was holed up&period; <br>Arredondo heads the district&&num;8217&semi;s small department and was in charge of the multi-agency response to the shooting&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<iframe width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;nEnmWq3Ymy8" title&equals;"YouTube video player" frameborder&equals;"0" allow&equals;"accelerometer&semi; autoplay&semi; clipboard-write&semi; encrypted-media&semi; gyroscope&semi; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen><&sol;iframe>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>President Joe Biden and the First Lady join members of a heart-broken community gathered to mourn at the site of the massacre before first of the Uvalde school shooting funerals<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Justice Department has said it will review the law enforcement response&period; <br>Focus has turned to the chief in recent days after Steven McCraw&comma; the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety&comma; said Arredondo believed the active shooting had turned into a hostage situation&comma; and that he made the &&num;8216&semi;wrong decision&&num;8217&semi; to not order officers to breach the classroom more quickly to confront the gunman&period;<br>Gutierrez&comma; who represents Uvalde&comma; complained Thursday that Arredondo was not informed of panicked 911 calls coming from students trapped inside a classroom where the gunman had holed up&period; 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