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The former school district police chief in Uvalde, Texas, is being booked into jail on a child endangerment charge after the law enforcement response to a 2022 elementary school shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children, officials at the Uvalde jail said Thursday afternoon. Pete Arredondo, 52, was brought in by law enforcement officers and is accused of abandoning and endangering a child individual, the jail said. The charge were first reported by the San Antonio Express-News.
Instead of continuing to engage the 18-year-old gunman — who was locked in a classroom with 33 students and three teachers — officers retreated after an initial burst of gunfire and did not “push forward immediately and continuously to eliminate the threat,” the department said. The officers had been taught erroneously that active shooters — or gunmen federal authorities define as someone “actively” killing or trying to kill others — “can easily morph into a hostage crisis,” the report says.
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