The 911 Call to Save a Teacher in Classroom 112: How the Texas Police Chief Receded to the 911 Call on May 24

By then, the armed responders were positioned outside of the classrooms and waiting for a team to enter the rooms and kill the shooter.

They gave her room number and also heard her try to help her teacher, who had been shot and later died. Miah tried to keep her from making a commotion when Khloie told them to keep quiet.

All the officers who were there should hear this audio so they can understand what the hell the kids are going through, and these suckers are just outside

They did not know a total of 376 officers from 23 local, state and federal agencies were responding, many then just feet away from them, their injured friends and teachers. At least one child and one teacher survived the initial attack but died later.

Miah’s parents reached out to CNN after we ran a story Tuesday on Miah’s classmate Khloie calling 911 and giving details of the dead and injured in Classroom 112 some 40 minutes before officers finally burst into the room to stop the gunman and get victims out.

If children are calling and saying they are injured in the class, that shows that officers are really afraid of them and wouldn’t respond if they were.

The chaotic, prolonged response on May 24 has been decried as a failure for months. Texas’s police chief did not give an update at a public meeting last week, but full details about what happened are still being kept under wraps. Col. Steve McCaw of the Texas Department of Public Safety apologized to family members and said that his officers did not fail the community of Uvalde.

Khloie’s father Ruben Torres, praised his daughter’s actions and again contrasted them with the inaction of the officers after he heard the 911 call. “That day, the things that she did were absolutely incredible,” he said of his daughter. Of the adults who responded, he said: “None of them had courage that day.”

Wednesday was the first time Miah’s parents heard the call and they said it helped them better understand what she had gone through.

Hello, can you send some help? Miah asks at 12:19 p.m., 46 minutes since the shooter was seen entering the room but still more than 30 minutes from when he was stopped.

“Are they in the building?” She asks about the response from law enforcement. It wasn’t until her mother talked that she realized that Miah didn’t know that officers were lined up on the other side of the door.

She was able to see the distraction, delay and lack of communication on the body camera video that her family tried to shield her from.

Miah was able to tell CNN days later how she smeared blood on herself and played dead in the hope the gunman would leave her alone if he came back from the adjoining classroom. She sent a video to the House committee looking into gun violence when she said she wanted to have security.

Her mother remembers how her middle child used to be good at playing prank with her siblings and now is afraid of loud noise.

Maryland Elementary School Teacher False Report Stabbings Investigated by First-Class EMS Interferometry at a Small Town in Eastern Baltimore

Maryland law enforcement and school district officials are investigating why an elementary school teacher made unfounded claims that multiple stabbings occurred at the school before walking 27 fifth-graders off campus to a local café.

The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office has a news release saying they received a call about multiple stab wounds at a school. The western part of Baltimore is roughly 40 minutes west of Monrovia.

Instead, deputies quickly found out there had not been any stabbings in the school but that 27 students and a teacher were missing, the sheriff’s office said. Authorities soon found all the students and the teacher at a local cafe, the sheriff’s office added. All of the missing students were accounted for and reunited with their families and guardians, authorities said.

Earlier in the day, the teacher had allegedly attempted to call the front office to get permission to take students outside but did not receive a response and believed the school seemed “eerily quiet,” the sheriff’s office said.

The teacher made a decision to lead the students up to a nearby cafe due to her having taken part in emergency management procedures.

“As they are walking through the woods, she has the children remove any brightly colored clothing or accessories and removes her own brightly colored shirt to avoid detection,” the sheriff’s office added.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/us/maryland-teacher-false-report-stabbings-investigation/index.html

Investigating the 911 911 Call of Khloie Blows Up a School Door, Does it Really Matter If You’re a Student Is a Black Hole?

“We are grateful that this was a non-credible threat, but we know that the experience was upsetting for the students involved and our community at large. We are sorry, the school district said.

The teacher was taken into custody, which does not mean she was criminally arrested or charged, authorities said. She was taken to a hospital for evaluation but was not handcuffed, they added.

The school district said school officials held a meeting for parents of the impacted students to get more information and services for the children and will also have additional mental health staff at the school over the coming says for children and staff who need support, district officials said.

Records of interviews with the Texas Ranger and FBI agent reveal that Pargas did not mention that children were with the shooter at the time of the emergency call, or that he knew about what happened two days later.

Communication failures and a lack of leadership in the chaotic response are blamed for why it took 77 minutes to kill the man who had barricaded himself in two classrooms.

The senior officer in charge was given exact location of children who were alive and begging to be rescued after Pargas called the office, proving for the first time that a senior officer was aware of a call from inside the classroom.

The conversation shows that Pargas called about 6 minutes after Khloie hit the phone, while she was still on the line, and 4 minutes after the call was relayed to the Uvalde police.

Pargas asked how many are still alive and was told “eight to nine are still alive”. She’s not too sure … She cannot say how many of them might be injured or DOA. We are trying.

Based on analysis of surveillance and body cameras at the scene, he walks back into the hallway at 12:17 p.m. and mentions injured victims to a Border Patrol officer. At 12:18 p.m., he does not mention the children when a Texas Ranger talks to him about organizing the flow of information.

Pargas was last seen walking away from the entrance of the school. New angles of the hallway security cameras obtained by CNN confirm Pargas does not reenter the hallway near room 112 where officers are gathering and eventually breach the classroom door some 30 minutes later.

Pargas was placed on administrative leave by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin in July when videos from body cameras raised questions about whether he had taken any action to assume command. “This administrative leave is to investigate whether Lt. Pargas was responsible for taking command on May 24th, what specific actions Lt. Pargas took to establish that command, and whether it was even feasible given all the agencies involved and other possible policy violations,” McLaughlin said in a statement at the time.

Pargas told CNN that he could not talk about anything to do with the police department because of the advice of his lawyers.

“I want to defend myself. He said that he did on Monday. “There’s a lot of stuff that I can explain, that I would love to defend myself. The victims are saying everything they want to say, but they can’t say anything because we were told not to.

He said that there was nothing to be afraid of. We did what we could, but we have been told we are not allowed to speak publicly.

Mar’ace Pargas, the deputy commissioner of Uvalde county commissioner, after his wife lost in a shooting

Just last week, Pargas was reelected as a Uvalde county commissioner after defeating three write-in candidates including Javier Cazares, who lost his daughter Jackie in the shooting.

Pargas said he was told by the husband of a former officer in his police department that his wife was shot in her classroom. He said he observed the officer, Ruben Ruiz, tensing, and decided he should be disarmed and taken out of the hallway.

“He was holding the gun real tight,” Pargas said of Ruiz in his interview. “And we were just afraid that he was gonna try to run in the classroom and try to do what I wanted to do if I could have done it.”

Later in the interview, he added: “The last thing we thought was that he had actually shot the kids. We thought he had shot up in the air, broken the lights. We had no idea what was behind those doors.”

He told investigators he rushed to the vicinity of the school – about a mile and a half away – when someone came into his office to say there had been an accident and there was a man with a rifle.

I assumed this to be school property when I saw Pete Arredondo. Pargas told the Ranger that when something happens in the school, they usually assist it.

Arredondo has said he never considered himself the incident commander, though he did try to negotiate with the shooter as well as issue orders to those in the hallway with him.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/us/uvalde-investigation-acting-police-chief-mariano-pargas/index.html

The Robb Elementary School Shootout: When a UPD Officer and a Student Gets Their Own Fireballs Revisited

More officers from more agencies arrived and there was no clear direction for what was happening inside or outside the school building.

As they stood at the entrance door at 12:10 p.m., guns drawn but static, a UPD detective asks Pargas about the Border Patrol tactical team: “Are we just waiting for BORTAC, or what’s going on?”

Pargas appears to direct him to Texas Ranger Christopher Ryan Kindell, who is under investigation for actions he failed to take at Robb Elementary, after another local officer asked for an officer in charge.

A Texas House committee report into the tragedy at Robb Elementary said the lack of any effective incident command was a key problem. The report, which faults the choices Pargas made, said the fact that UPD officers responding to reports of a crash and a man with a gun were first on scene would have made them initial commanders, and while Arredondo could then have assumed command at the school he would have needed to go outside the building to coordinate effectively.

Pargas then walks inside the school building where officers from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies were lined up at the end of a hallway leading to the classrooms.

But then he gives some praise to the operation: “I think keeping him contained, I think it did save a lot more lives that could have been taken that day.”

The New Jersey school district where a 14-year-old student took her own life days after a video of her being attacked by four other teenagers went viral has announced that the school district’s superintendent has resigned.

Four students at Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township, located in Ocean County, New Jersey, have been charged in connection with the attack, according to prosecutors. The incident sparked outrage among students and parents because they say it signifies a culture of bad behavior in the district.

New Jersey teen suicide after violent attack at a high school: A complaint by the principal, Parlapanides, and Galifi

On February 1, Adriana called her father and told him that she had been “jumped,” Kuch said. He says he rushed to the school and was informed by school officials that his daughter had been attacked but said he wasn’t given details about the incident, including that multiple girls were allegedly involved and that his daughter was hit with a water bottle.

The school district did not elaborate on any further details regarding Parlapanides’s resignation. CNN tried to contact Parlapanides, but he did not reply.

“The Central Regional School District is evaluating all current and past allegations of bullying. The District has contacted the Department of Education and will undergo an independent assessment of the District’s anti-bullying policies and ensure every necessary safeguard is in place to protect our students and staff,” the district’s statement reads.

The video, obtained and reviewed by CNN, shows the freshman student being hit in the face with a water bottle several times. The footage shows the punches, kicked, and hair pulled on Adriana. Kuch says his daughter suffered bruising and blacked out for a short time as a result of the attack.

Kuch disputes the superintendent’s account and claims three of the girls involved were back at school the following day. He claimed that the school didn’t file a report with the police.

John Galifi, a father of two children at the high school, told CNN affiliate News 12 New Jersey that other children at the school have also dealt with serious bullying.

Dozens of students walked out of the school on Wednesday in order to pressure the district to take stronger action against the people who bully them.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/us/new-jersey-teen-suicide-after-violent-attack/index.html

Surviving the death of Adriana, the sixth grader in the Parlapanides area: Superintendent Billhimer says he and students will meet with principals during a difficult time

Parlapanides informed parents and guardians of Adriana’s death in a letter on February 6, saying the district crisis team was “immediately activated to meet with students and staff during this difficult time.”

It is not the case that we always press charges based on each individual case. We always notify the police when there is an incident. Adriana had several cuts and bruises.”

In a Facebook post on February 8, Kuch wrote, “I want the entire world to know what these animals did to my daughter. I don’t want to sleep until their family watches them plead guilty in front of a judge.

“Please know that you are never alone in this world and there is always support during bad times to help change things for the better,” the superintendent added.

The four minor accused in the attack were served with charges and have been released pending future court appearances according to Billhimer.

Billhimer said he spoke with protestors at the school on Wednesday and offered to meet with them to hear their concerns. He said he also met with Parlapanides Friday morning to “discuss ways to improve the district’s response to incidents within the school.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/us/new-jersey-teen-suicide-after-violent-attack/index.html

Families and friends of Adriana Ferro: The impact of suicide prevention on their children, family and the future of the child caregiving system

Adriana’s sister-in-law, Jennifer Ferro, told CNN in an interview that the family does not want people to remember Adriana “as the girl who sadly passed away at the age of 14.”

“We want everyone to remember her as the fun-loving little girl we always loved being around,” Ferro said. “We don’t want people to remember her from how she died, more who she was as a person.”

The international directory of resources and hotlines is provided by the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Befrienders Worldwide can also be a source of assistance.