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    As police waited, children inside Texas school called 911 begging for help

    by Kevin Rector, Jenny Jarvie, Richard Winton and Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times May 27, 2022 4 minutes
    Emergency officials clean up outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, a day after 19 students and two teachers died when a gunman opened fire in a classroom.

    UVALDE, Texas — Children inside a Texas elementary school begged the police to enter their classroom and save them, frantically calling 911, as a team of 19 officers waited in the corridor for an hour because a commander believed the situation had shifted from active shooter to a barricaded subject, a state law enforcement officer said Friday.

    “Of course, it wasn’t the right decision.” Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at a news conference, choking back tears. “It was the wrong decision. Period.”

    With 19 officers inside, McCraw said, there were “plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done.” But the commander inside — Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde Consolidated School District chief of police — decided the team needed more

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