Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Wednesday accused the county's district attorney of a cover-up in connection with the ongoing investigation into the 2022 school shooting.
Mayor Don McLaughlin made comments at a news conference that kicked off a week of commemorations to mark one year since the massacre that killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.
Mitchell "has been involved in a cover-up regarding the city's investigation into the Robb School tragedy," the mayor said in a statement.The renewed lawsuit, filed on Aug. 29 in District Court in Uvalde County, again seeks a court order requiring the DA's office to release information regarding the mass shooting for the city's independent investigator Jesse Prado.
Last year, Prado was hired by the city to conduct an internal affairs investigation into the actions of city police who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting, where 19 fourth graders and two teachersMcLaughlin said an original lawsuit, filed by the city in December 2022, was dismissed after Mitchell promised to provide the information their investigator requested. But according to the mayor, Mitchell has not complied.
"We needed bodycams they had," McLaughlin told KSAT. "It was available. We wanted the school, the original school video, which, you knew ... I was trying to get it so we could go ahead and get our investigation to give her, you know. And then we're told to go to YouTube and get it off YouTube. Really? I mean, that's, you know, we can't use that.
"I never trusted the District Attorney," said Cazares. "She painted a pretty picture at the very beginning, but in my opinion, she seemed to have already made up her mind at the beginning about who was guilty and who was not."
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