New: Uvalde school officials will vote on whether to fire school police chief Pete Arredondo during a special meeting on Saturday.
Adam Martinez attended a Uvalde City Council meeting on June 21 and brought a sign calling on council members to fire Pete Arredondo, who was the police chief of the Uvalde school district during the Robb Elementary school shooting in May., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Blame for the fiercely criticized response to the massacre — during which law enforcement waited more than an hour to confront the shooter — has largely fallen on Arredondo. The district placedArredondo was chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s six-person department on May 24, when an 18-year-old gunman entered Robb Elementary and killed 19 children and two teachers.
The consensus of those interviewed by the House committee was that either Arredondo — or no one — was in charge at the scene, which several witnesses described as chaotic., Arredondo said he did not think he was the incident commander on the scene. Yet according to the school district’s active-shooter response plan, authored in part by Arredondo, the district chief would “become the person in control of the efforts of all law enforcement and first responders that arrive at the scene.
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