‘Please send police now!’

Kids’ frantic calls to 911

Terrified kids called 911 while they were locked inside with the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter — with one child pleading, “Please send the police now,” as officers waited more than a half hour to take the gunman down.

Two students who were locked in two interconnected classrooms with the killer made multiple 911 calls, but the on-scene commanding officer decided the situation had evolved from an active shooter to a barricaded suspect and didn’t storm the class.

Gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, arrived at the school at just before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, marched in through an open door and locked himself into rooms 111 and 112, firing off at least 100 rounds in the massacre.

By 12:15 p.m., Ramos was in the classroom with at least 19 officers in the building — but law enforcement didn’t open the door using a janitor’s key and fatally shoot Ramos until 12:50 p.m., said Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The first child called 911 at 12:03 p.m., whispering from room 112 in a call that lasted one minute and 23 seconds, McCraw said. She called back at 12:10 to say “multiple” people were dead. She called three minutes later and again at 12:16 where she told a dispatcher there were eight to nine students alive, said McCraw.

At 12:19 p.m., another person in room 111 called. “She hung up when another student told her to hang up,” McCraw said. At 12:21 p.m. on that 911 call, shots could be heard fired in the background.

At 12:36 p.m., the initial child called back in a brief call where the dispatcher told her to “stay on the line and be very quiet,” he said. The child said Ramos had shot the door.

At 12:46 p.m., she said she could hear the police next door. At 12:47 p.m. she asked, “Please send the police now.”

At 12:50 p.m., shots were fired that could be heard on the 911 call. That was the time when the

tactical unit, armed with ballistic shields, entered Room 111 and finally killed Ramos. The sound of officers moving children out of the room could be heard a minute later on the 911 call.

It wasn’t clear if the incident commander was receiving the information coming in from 911 — and if he wasn’t, why not.