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A Texas judge has refused to throw out criminal charges accusing the former Uvalde schools police chief of endangering children in the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary shooting.
Pete Arredondo’s lawyers tell the court that the shooter, not the police, was to blame for the school violence.
Records from a 10-count indictment were released Friday in the case against former Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo.
Uvalde school officials have faced mounting pressure to fire Arredondo, who received much of the blame for the delay in confronting the shooter during the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary.
The Uvalde school district’s embattled police chief has been fired following allegations that he made several critical mistakes during a mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
Families of Robb Elementary School shooting victims remain skeptical after Uvalde CISD announced a date for district Police Chief Pete Arredondo's termination hearing.
In the aftermath of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, families of victims and many residents are navigating mixed emotions as they channel their grief and fury into demands for change.
Uvalde’s top school official has recommended the firing of the school district police chief who has been blamed for the botched law enforcement response to the elementary school shooting nearly two months ago that killed two teachers and 19 students.
Nearly two months after the state’s deadliest school shooting, a comprehensive report on the failed police response and missed red flags was released to families of victims and the public.
The embattled police chief for the Uvalde school district who was recently sworn in as a District 3 councilman has resigned, he told the Uvalde Leader-News on Saturday.
The embattled police chief for the Uvalde school district was a no-show for a special City Council meeting on Thursday — his third absence at a meeting since he was sworn in as councilman last month.
The move comes weeks after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Uvalde CISD police Chief Pete Arredondo, one of the first to respond, and state officials have provided differing stories about what happened inside the school.
This week, Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo and his attorney granted an exclusive interview to The Texas Tribune to detail his version of what happened inside Robb Elementary School on May 24, when a shooter killed 21 people.
As chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, it was Arredondo’s call to wait more than an hour for backup instead of ordering officers on scene to immediately charge the shooter.
A truck was stolen outside of a West Side funeral home with their family pets' ashes inside. Now Patricia Arredondo is begging for the ashes to be returned.
