A 10-year-old girl trapped in a classroom with the shooter during the Ulvade shooting called 911 multiple times for help and waited long minutes before being rescued.
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Khloie Torres was locked up in room 112 with the shooter, injured people, other children, and several corpses of comrades.
The CNN network broadcast excerpts from the 911 calls made by the child, with the agreement of his family, a call showing the serious shortcomings of the police intervention.
“I’m in class 112,” the little girl whispered to the police dispatcher. “Hurry up, there are a lot of dead bodies.”
The father of Khloie Torres, an ex-marine, would have taught his daughter what to do in this kind of situation.
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She repeats it to the dispatcher who asks her to silence the other children around her.
“I do, I do. I tell everyone to stay calm, but nobody listens to me. I know how to handle these situations, my father taught me when I was a little girl. Send help. One of my teachers is still alive, but he was shot,” she said at 12:12 p.m.
The dispatcher sends the message to the dozens of police officers, almost a hundred, who burst into the school. However, they remain in the background and do not enter the classes where the shooter is.
More and more police are arriving on the scene: there were nearly 400 at the end of the intervention.
At 12:17 p.m., little Khloie calls 911. “Are the police still far away?”
“They’re inside the building,” 911 responds.
However, the child will still have to be patient.
On the other side of the door, the police intervention is chaotic and disorganized, show the body cameras of police officers.
The police believe that the suspect has barricaded himself, not that he is still active.
Yet the call of the child was clear: it was indeed an active shooter.
Some police officers did not even seem to know that there were injuries and victims.
In the batch of emergency forces present on the spot, a rescuer from the “border patrol” called in reinforcement, complains and worries: “We are taking too much time!”.
It was only around 12:50 p.m. that the police broke into the classroom.
The intervention of the forces of order was condemned, almost from beginning to end.
The various police forces are accused of having changed the versions of the event since the May 24 massacre.
Nineteen children and two female teachers were killed that day, but at least one adult and one child did not die immediately.
For Khloie’s father, Ruben Torres, the police on the spot literally lacked courage. His wife agrees. It still hurts her to think of those children who were helpless, left to fend for themselves.
“The children had no backup in there. Nobody had armor,” Jamie Torres told CNN.
Little Khloie Torres survived. Officers eventually managed to enter the classroom as she hid under a desk and spoke, once once more, to 911.
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