The firing comes five months after 19 children and two teachers died in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety fired an officer Friday who was at the sceneand becomes the first member of the state police force to lose their job in the fallout over the hesitant response to the May attack.
The department served Sgt. Juan Maldonado with termination papers, spokeswoman Ericka Miller said. No details were offered about his role at the scene of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School or the specific reason Maldonado was fired.The firing comes five months after the mass shooting that has put state police under scrutiny over their actions on the school campus as a gunman with an AR-15-style rifle killed 19 children and two teachers.
Instead, more than 70 minutes passed before officers finally stormed inside a fourth-grade classroom and killed the gunman, ending one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history. eventually made their way to the scene, including state police, Uvalde police, school officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents.after a damning report by lawmakers revealed that state police has more 90 officers at the scene, more than any other agency.
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