Repeated 911 calls, a wait for deputies: Texas survivors question why help didn’t arrive sooner

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“It was half an hour after we first started calling,” Ramiro Guzman said. “I wonder if they had come in those 30 minutes this wouldn’t have happened. Maybe my family would still be alive.”

Wilson Garcia said he and his wife first called police late Friday night after their neighbor refused to stop shooting a gun outside and threatened them.Then the neighbor turned up at the house, occupied by several members of an extended family from Honduras. He had a rifle. He began shooting.. He called 911 over and over. Each time, he said, a dispatcher told him that deputies were already there.“They would cut off the call. I would call back again,” Guzman recalled in an interview.

Capers told reporters Saturday that “a few seconds” passed between the harassment call and others reporting a shooting. The Associated Pressas saying that he had only three deputies covering a county spread across 700 square miles. The county has about 27,000 residents. “They swarmed to get there as soon as the information was put out,” Dillon said. “It just took them a while to get there because they were not staged to get there quickly.”

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