New York Post

A room ‘full of victims’

Chilling radio alert

- By EVAN SIMKOBADNA­RSKI

Newly released audio reveals a police dispatcher alerting officers to a child trapped inside a room “full of victims” during the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre.

The recording was heard in a video clip shared by ABC News on Monday that shows police responding to the May 24 attack at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.

“Advise, we do have a child on the line,” the unidentifi­ed dispatcher is heard saying. “Room 12. Are we able to — is anybody inside of the building at this — ”

“Child is advising he is in the room, full of victims,” the dispatcher says before repeating, “Full of victims at this moment.”

The video has no obvious time stamp, and it was unknown at what point during the 78-minute-long attack that the recording was made.

In the video, filmed from a distance, officers are seen helping children escape the school through an open window.

The clip has not been independen­tly verified by The Post.

Police in Uvalde have faced increasing criticism for waiting to breach the room where the shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, had locked himself in with student.

Officials have said the cops mistakenly believed the rampage had evolved from an “active shooter” emergency into a “barricaded subject” situation in which the gunman was no longer killing people.

Children hiding in that room made a series of 911 calls saying they were trapped inside with the gunman, with one kid pleading with a dispatcher “Please send police now.”

The calls took place until moments before Border Patrol Tactical Unit members entered and fatally shot Ramos, according to officials.

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