Former Uvalde School District police chief, Pete Arredondowas indicted two years after a mass shooting at an elementary school that left 21 people dead.
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According to CNNArredondo was indicted alongside former school police officer Adriano Gonzales. Additionally, the pair are facing felony charges of “abandoning and endangering a child.” The outlet notes that the charges against the pair reportedly represent the “first criminal charges filed in the school massacre.”
NBC News adds that the Uvalde prison confirmed that Arredondo was “booked into the unit” on Thursday, June 27.
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According to the news outlet, earlier this year the Department of Justice released a 600-page report on the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that occurred on May 24, 2022. The report concluded that “poor coordination, training and enforcement” of active shooter protocols among Uvalde school officials resulted in their failed response.
Additionally, the report stated that instead of “engaging” the active shooter, officers “retreated” after the initial shooting. Officers allegedly did not “advance…continuously to eliminate the threat.”
NBC News notes that the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was “locked in a classroom with 33 students and three teachers” at the time.
Ultimately, the report states that it took officers at least 70 minutes to confront and kill Ramos. Furthermore, the police officer’s “failed” response helped in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers.
In addition, seventeen other people were injured.
According to NBC NewsArredondo was fired by the Uvalde school board in 2023.
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