Video Appears To Show Texas 911 Dispatchers Telling Officers Children Were Calling For Help In Classroom

Video obtained by ABC News appears to confirm that Texas 911 dispatchers told officers on the scene at Robb Elementary School that there were children alive and calling for help inside the classroom with the gunman who entered the school one week ago, killing 19 children and two teachers.

“Child is advising he is in the room, full of victims,” the dispatcher can be heard saying in the video, shot as officers staged outside the school in Uvalde, Texas. “Full of victims at this moment.” The gunman was inside the classroom for nearly 90 minutes as 19 officers waited in a hallway outside.

The video, which aired on ABC’s Good Morning America Tuesday, appears to contradict what law enforcement officials said at a news conference Friday, that information from the children’s calls to 911 was not relayed to officers at the school. “That question will be answered,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McGraw said when asked if the incident commander at the school received the 911 information. “I’m not going to share the information we have right now. Because I don’t have — I don’t have the detailed interview right now.”

It was the incident commander who believed the gunman had barricaded himself in a classroom and that there was no further risk. But the ABC video appears to confirm that dispatchers did relay the fact that there were children in the classroom with the gunman begging for the police. “Advise we do have a child on the line,” a dispatcher can be heard saying.