More than two years have passed since the devastating school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.
On Sunday, the City of Uvalde released hundreds of new pieces of evidence, including audio and video recordings.
In July, a Texas judge ordered that all school and county sheriff records pertaining to the Uvalde school shooting must be released to the public, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
The victims, victims’ families, and community members have long sought information about — as well as accountability for — the shooting at Robb Elementary School in 2022 that left two teachers and 19 children dead and 17 others injured. Lawsuits have been pursued against an array of actors, such as the City of Uvalde, the social media company Meta, shipping giants UPS and FedEx, and the video game titan Activision, believed by the claimants to have played a role in the 18-year-old killer’s heinous actions.
Among the new evidence is a recording of a 911 call by a man who identifies himself as the shooter’s uncle, Armando Ramos, in which he claimed he might be able to get his nephew to “stand down” or “turn himself in.”
CNN reports on the contents of the phone call from Armando. Here’s the start of the story:
A man claiming to be the uncle of Uvalde school shooter Salvador Ramos called 911 during the May 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School and begged a dispatcher to connect him with his nephew in hopes that he could help end the situation.
“The thing that’s happening at Robb right now, he’s my nephew,” the 911 caller, who identified himself as Armando Ramos, said. “I was wondering, maybe he could listen to me because he does listen to me, everything I tell him, he does listen to me.”
The audio is part of a trove of bodycam and dashcam videos, audio recordings of 911 calls and radio communication, documents and text message the city released more than two years after the shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas.
Most of the material released was previously reported by CNN. The files – some of which were redacted – were released only after CNN and more than a dozen other major news organizations filed a lawsuit to obtain public records related to the massacre.
Ramos’ call came into dispatch at 12:57 p.m., just seven minutes after law enforcement used a janitor key to breach the locked classroom door, and shot and killed the suspect, CNN previously reported.