It’s becoming a theme with Texas law enforcement, that when there’s an actual threat–like Uvalde–they’ll ignore real threats and then fail to act when it’s already too late.  As hundreds of officers from local, county, state and federal agencies carry out a manhunt for the perpetrator, a survivor of a mass murder in Cleveland, Texas accused police of failing to act after the family called 9-1-1 multiple times on the man, starting two days before the murders, NBC News reports.

The survivor, Ramiro Guzman, said he pushed his wife and child into a closet as the gunman assassinated five others, including an eight-year-old, in the home.  Guzman said he called 9-1-1, only to be told deputies were already there; they weren’t.  He called four more times, but was cut off each time.  “They would cut off the call. I would call back again,” Guzman told NBC News. “Then I called my aunt who lives two blocks away to see if they’d answer her. I thought maybe they didn’t believe me and that’s why they didn’t want to help, but maybe they’d believe her.”

Another member of the family, Wilson Garcia, said he and his wife called the police two days before the Sunday afternoon slaughter to ask them to intervene with their neighbor, who was firing his AR-15 late in the night; no deputies ever arrived.  Two days later, the gun-wielding neighbor entered their home.  Garcia’s wife and child were two of the five killed.