The Uvalde school district’s former police chief and one of his former officers have been indicted on felony charges of abandoning and endangering children for their roles in the law enforcement response to the deadly Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas in 2022. Christina Mitchell, the 38th Judicial District Attorney, confirmed the charges against former …
Newly-released audio revealed that a Texas school police chief intentionally avoided confronting the gunman who barricaded himself in a classroom at Robb Elementary and killed 19 students. A day after the May 2022 shooting, then-Uvalde Schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo told investigators with the FBI and Texas Department of Public Safety that he knew children …
A Texas school board on Wednesday fired its district police chief, three months to the day after a gunman killed 19 4th graders and two teachers at a school under his purview. Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo was widely criticized for response to the shooting, in which dozens of police officers stood by …
Uvalde, Texas, school officials will discuss whether to fire suspended district police chief Pete Arredondo next week, three months after an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. Arredondo should have been the commanding officer of the response to the shooting, according to the district’s active shooter plan that he …
The Uvalde school board will consider firing school district police chief Pete Arredondo at a special meeting on Saturday, following a damning state legislative report and fierce anger from members of the public. School Superintendent Hal Harrell, who said Monday that Arredondo was a contract employee and could not be fired at will, has now …
The embattled police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has resigned from the Uvalde City Council just a week after the council declined to grant him a leave of absence. Pete Arredondo, under withering fire for the police response to the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on …
The embattled chief of the Uvalde school district’s police department was put on administrative leave Wednesday as allegations intensify that he erred in his response to last month’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers before a Border Patrol tactical team entered the classroom where he was …
A review of law enforcement transcripts and security camera footage raises more questions than it answers about the police response to the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school last month. The review, conducted by The Texas Tribune, shows multiple officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary school on May …
The incident commander in charge of the police response to the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Texas last week wasn’t carrying a police radio, according to a Texas state senator. Sen. Roland Gutierrez told the Associated Press that he got the information from an official with the Texas Department of Public Safety, …
Pete Arredondo refused to answer questions about the investigation, however, out of respect for the families of the murdered victims.
