UVALDE, Texas — Thirty minutes into the deadly siege on her classroom in south Texas, a 10-year-old student did something extraordinary: she picked up a phone.
"There's a school shooting at Robb Elementary School," said the hushed voice of a little girl.From deep inside the siege that would end in the deaths of 19 children and two of their teachers, fourth-grader Khloie Torres -- terrified that the gunman might hear her -- kept law enforcement apprised of what was happening during a series of phone calls.
"The consequences of police inaction at the scene, that is really the whole point of the investigation, and that would be a part of what's presented to the grand jury" when that time comes, said Scott Durfee, a Uvalde County special assistant district attorney working on the case. "The idea that someone so young would know to get on a cell phone and call 911, but maintain that line, [an] open line, and report information that was helpful -- it would've been very helpful, put it that way," said Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety that is running the criminal investigation.
"The calls you got in from the -- from one of the students," Pargas asked a dispatcher."What did they say?""So how many are still alive?" Pargas asked.
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