Slain Uvalde teacher called her officer husband during the Texas school shooting, a county judge said. The husband rushed over, but wasn't allowed to go inside

• The teacher killed in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting called her husband.

• He rushed to the scene, but other officers prevented him from going inside.

• Bill Mitchell is the Uvalde County judge.

A teacher killed in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting called her police officer husband, but he was barred by other law enforcement from going inside after rushing to the scene of the mass shooting.

He is outside while she is in the classroom. Uvalde County judge, Bill Mitchell, told The New York Times on Wednesday that he was frightened by the May 24 shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

Eva Mireles was on the phone with her husband when she was killed in the attack.

Mitchell did not know what was said.

The shooter opened fire in two classrooms at the school at 11:28 a.m., killing two people.

But it wasn't until 78 minutes later that a US Border Patrol team used a key to open a locked classroom door and shoot and kill the man.

The on-scene commander, Pete Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, decided not to confront the shooter even as students inside the classrooms called for help.

The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety called it the wrong decision.

At that time, the on-scene commander believed that it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject.

Mitchell, the county judge, said that at least one officer at the scene was talking to someone inside a classroom, but it's not clear if the commander was aware of the calls.

The victims of the shooting were in the classroom where Mireles could not enter.

Mitchell told the news outlet that he didn't know if Arredondo was told about the call with his wife.

The man was talking to his wife. Mitchell did not know if that was conveyed to Arredondo.

It wasn't clear when the phone call happened or how long it lasted.

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and the Texas Department of Public Safety did not reply to requests for comment on Thursday.

Arredondo has come under fire for the police response to the shooting and Texas authorities have been facing intense backlash for changing their story more than a dozen times.

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