In Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022, a fourth-grader named Khloie Torres made 911 calls during a school attack at Robb Elementary School. She whispered into the phone, asking for help and saying she didn’t want to die. She told the operator there were many bodies around her and that her teacher was dead.
The operator asked if there were other people with her. Khloie said it was just her and a few friends, and that many people were “gone.”
These distress calls, along with CCTV videos from the Uvalde incident at Robb school, were released by officials in Uvalde after a long legal fight. At first, they didn’t want to share this information, but The Associated Press report and other news groups sued to make it public.
The deadly shooting killed 19 students and two teachers, making it one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. The police response has been heavily criticized because nearly 400 law enforcement officers waited over 70 minutes before they went into the classroom to stop the shooter. The families of the victims have been asking for justice and answers about why it took so long to act in Uvalde, a small city 80 miles west of San Antonio.
