MADRID, 15 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A new audio of a phone call made during the Uvalde massacre, which resulted in the death of 19 children and two teachers, shows the inaction on the part of the Texas Police during the assault on the school, amid the controversy over alleged failures in the police response.
From this audio it appears that the police chief knew that there were between eight and nine children alive inside the Robb Elementary School and that they needed to be rescued as soon as possible, according to information to which the CNN television network has had access. which has indicated that, however, the agents were not able to organize the rescue properly.
Agent Mariano Pargas called his colleagues from the Uvalde Police Department to get more details about what was happening that May 24 after a ten-year-old girl contacted the agents and claimed to be in a classroom “full of victims”.
However, a series of failures in communication and leadership occurred, leading to a chaotic response that took officers 77 minutes to stop the attacker who entered the school armed. Some police officers have claimed they were unaware of the calls made to 911, while others have claimed they were unable to hear the radio transmissions.
Now, the calls made to the Pagas phone show that one of the main chiefs of the Corps was aware of the call made to 911 from inside the classroom and that it gave exact data on the location of the children who were left alive.
The conversation, recorded as part of routine police procedure, shows how Pargas makes a call at 12:16 p.m. (local time), about six minutes after the student called the police, and is brought up to date on the situation.
However, analysis of the data collected suggests that Pargas went to a Border Guard agent to inform him that there were victims and, at around 12:18, forgets to name the children who are still alive when he speaks with a Texas ranger. .
Later, he walks towards the entrance of the school, away from the agents who are next to one of the affected classrooms and who would not break into the class until after 30 minutes.
The police finally entered the classes and shot down the assailant at 12:50, about 80 minutes after the massacre began at the school.
