Teacher Eva Mireles was in her fourth grade classroom when a year old shooter entered her Robb High School in Uvalde, Texas and murdered her, along with another teacher and 19 children.
While the school was being attacked, Mireles called her husband, Rubén Ruiz. It was a school district police officer stationed outside the building, part of a growing group of first responders.
From opposite sides of the school wall, Mireles and Ruiz had the last conversation they would have.
“ She is in the classroom and he is outside. It’s terrifying,” Uvalde County Judge Bill Mitchell told reporters after being told by sheriff’s deputies that they were at the shooting, reports the New York Times.
Although the phone call reflects a tender moment between husband and wife, also has an additional meaning. While authorities have said the commanding officer believed the gunman was barricaded in an empty classroom, the phone call between Mireles and Ruiz appears to suggest that at least one of the officers on the scene may have known the gunman was in a room with students.
This information comes a day after a video from an emergency dispatch appeared to tell officers that the children were calling 911 from inside the room.
It is unclear how long Mireles and Ruiz spoke, but Mitchell told reporters that the teacher apparently she described the scene to her husband.