Uvalde pupil, 10, tells US 911 dispatcher ‘I don’t want to die’ during mass shooting

As law enforcement officers hung back outside Khloie Torres’ fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, she begged for help in a series of 911 calls, whispering into the phone that there were “a lot” of bodies and telling the operator: “Please, I don’t want to die. My teacher is dead. Oh, my God.”

At one point, the dispatcher asked Khloie if there are many people in the room with the 10-year-old, who ultimately survived.

“No, it’s just me and a couple of friends. A lot of people are,” she said, pausing briefly, “gone”.

Calls from Khloie and others, along with body camera footage and surveillance videos from the May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary School, were included in a massive collection of audio and video recordings released by Uvalde city officials on Saturday after a prolonged legal fight.

The Associated Press and other news organisations brought a lawsuit after the officials initially refused to publicly release the information. The massacre, which left 19 students and two teachers dead, was one of the worst school shootings in US history.

The delayed law enforcement response has been widely condemned as a massive failure. Nearly 400 officers waited more than 70 minutes before confronting the gunman in a classroom filled with dead and wounded children and teachers.