PETE ARREDONDO

Newly obtained video shows Pete Arredondo’s account of the shooting at Robb Elementary in his own words.

Lt. Mariano Pargas resigned Thursday after 18 years as a city employee, spokeswoman Gina Eisenberg told The Washington Post.

The Uvalde CISD school board met Wednesday evening to vote on hiring a new interim police chief.

A series of miscommunications from nearly 400 members of law enforcement led to long wait times for those stuck inside Robb Elementary School, where 19 students and two teachers died.

Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents Uvalde, called on the state's Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw to resign on Thursday.

The trajectory of a tragedy more than five months later could mean a shift in the political landscape in Uvalde, Texas.

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The officer becomes the first member of the state police force to lose their job in the fallout over the hesitant response to the May school attack that killed 19 children and two teachers.

DPS director Steve McCraw could legally release mountains of evidence tomorrow. Instead, he is hiding behind a veil of secrecy.

Families of the victims killed in the May 24 Robb Elementary School massacre say a New York Times investigation is further proof that more people need to be held accountable for failing to protect their children that day.

School leaders also put two members of the district police department on administrative leave, one of whom chose to retire instead, according to a statement released by the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District. Uvalde families have said students in the district are not safe so long as officers who waited so long to confront and kill the gunman remain on the job. The Uvalde school district had five campus police officers on the scene of the shooting, according to a damning report from Texas lawmakers that laid out multiple breakdowns in the response. A total of nearly 400 officers responded, including school district police, the city’s police, county sheriff’s deputies, state police and U.S. Border Patrol agents, among others. The fallout Friday is the first in Uvalde’s school police force since the district fired former police Chief Pete Arredondo in August.

The Texas school district said it's suspending its police department, citing "recent developments." An investigation is looking into the police response to the Robb Elementary shooting in May.

Uvalde school leaders have pulled its embattled campus police force off the job four months after the Robb Elementary School shooting.

Brett Cross launched the protest Sept. 27, joined by other Uvalde families who say the...

Brett Cross launched the protest Sept. 27, joined by other Uvalde families who say the school district hasn’t held five of its officers accountable for their part in law enforcement’s delayed action during the May 24 shooting.

The families of victims in the mass shooting in Uvalde filed the first lawsuit of many against the school district and the city.

In the months since the May 24 Robb Elementary shooting, some families of the 21 victims have turned to political activism.

The father of one shooting victim has launched a write-in campaign for county commissioner. Other parents have traveled to Austin and Washington, D.C., to pressure elected officials to support stricter gun laws.

Two officers were suspended with pay until the investigation is resolved, the agency...

Hundreds of law enforcement officers from several local, state and federal agencies have been heavily criticized for the delayed response in confronting the gunman during the worst school shooting in Texas history.

The head of the state's top law enforcement agency told his department that troopers must "overcome" any delays in confronting a mass shooter.

Uvalde trustees are unsure if officers who will provide school security this year were part of the delayed response to the shooting at Robb Elementary.

There never was going to be a different outcome for Pete Arredondo. His fate was sealed the moment an 18-year-old walked unimpeded into Robb Elementary School armed with an AR-15 and murdered 19 fourth-graders and two of their beloved teachers. Arredondo was the school district chief of police. His sole job was to protect the

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Some parents and community members are calling for more school district employees to be fired and for the state to raise the minimum age for buying an assault rifle.

The firing of Uvalde's embattled school police chief hasn't satisfied or reassured many Uvalde residents as a new school year approaches.

The Uvalde CISD school board fired Chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday after emotional public input from the families of the mass shooting victims.

Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw and Gov. Greg Abbott have also failed to lead following the tragic shooting.

On the three-month anniversary of the Robb Elementary shooting, families of the victims took control of the board meeting to talk about the lives taken as the board met privately to terminate Pete Arredondo's employment.

The new findings that a culture of lockdowns due to “bailouts” by fleeing migrants is a reason joined by the authors with immigration policies, school lockdowns, complacency and the proximity of numerous immigrant detention centers in three nearby cities. Lockdowns — no actual numbers here — happen presumably when sirens scream on the two highways close to the school. In one report we are told that the Raptor alarm system doesn’t distinguish why there is a lockdown. Or is it another sort of link to immigration policy, which of course belongs solely to President Biden? Has any president for the past 20 or 30 years addressed real immigration reform?

Pete Arredondo, who called the vote a “public lynching,” got much of the blame for the delay in confronting the school shooter on May 24.

Families of the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary have been demanding Arredondo be fired since details became clear of the law enforcement failures that day.

Widely blamed for law enforcement's delayed response, Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo demands reinstatement & backpay

08.24.2022 Arredondo Press Release - Name Clearing Hearing- Click on link to read full 17 page document. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief Pete Arredondo and his attorney George E. Hyde will not attend the planned termination hearing, which was scheduled today, Aug. 24, at 5:30 p.m. Pete Arredondo His attorney released a 17-page

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 Board is deciding whether or not to fire police chief Pete Arredondo for his handling of the Robb Elementary shooting.

The district was set to make a decision on Pete Arredondo's future three months after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a school attack.

Monday night’s hearing will allow for public comment before the board will go into closed session to discuss parent and public grievances against the superintendent.

Families of Robb Elementary School shooting victims remain skeptical after Uvalde CISD announced a date for district Police Chief Pete Arredondo's termination hearing.

Uvalde school officials could fire Pete Arredondo, the school district’s police chief, on Aug. 24, three months after he was one of the first law enforcement officers to arrive at Robb Elementary, where a gunman killed two teachers and 19 children. School officials on Tuesday set a date for a meeting to decide Arredondo’s future with the district. Hundreds of local, state and federal law enforcement officers waited more than an hour to confront the gunman after he entered the school and perpetrated the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. “With the benefit of hindsight, we now know this was a terrible, tragic mistake,” the House report stated. Training for active-shooter scenarios directs law enforcement responders to prioritize the lives of innocent victims over those of officers.

The meeting will happen exactly three months after Arredondo was among the first law enforcement officers to arrive at Robb Elementary, where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.

The board will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 24 to discuss the termination.

The Uvalde CISD school board unanimously approved procedural rules for district police chief Pete Arredondo’s termination hearing and the district’s legal representation in closed session Monday night.

The Uvalde CISD school board will consult an attorney during a closed session this week in regards to Pete Arredondo’s delayed termination hearing.

Opinion: In the law enforcement world, bad actors are hired and let go over and over, yet continue to find employment.

An hours-long open forum Uvalde CISD board meeting was met with criticism and demands from members of the community.

The Uvalde CISD will hold a Special School Board Meeting on Monday night to allow members of the community to comment or ask questions about the upcoming school year.

OPINION: As seemingly incompetent officers bounce from one police department to the next, their backgrounds often go unchecked.

The firing of Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school police chief, was postponed for a second time due to a scheduling conflict.

Chief Pete Arredondo has faced mounting criticism for his response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

A termination hearing for Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo scheduled for Thursday has been postponed for a second time.

The GOP governor initially said he stopped at the fundraiser “on the way” to Austin to “let people know” he couldn’t stay.

Principal Mandy Gutierrez was reinstated after responding to a Texas House committee’s report that accused her of lax security oversight at the school.

Mandy Gutierrez Two days after Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District placed her on administrative leave, Robb Elementary Principal Mandy Gutierrez released a three-page document refuting issues raised in the House Investigative Committee Report Gutierrez’s attorney, Ricardo Cedillo of San Antonio, distributed the document on July 27. In it, Gutierrez addresses issues related to campus security,

“I want to keep my job," Robb Elementary School Principal Mandy Gutierrez told members of the House Investigative Committee.

The Uvalde school board is formally urging Gov. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District trustees approved the largely symbolic resolution in a unanimous vote on the same night they voted to delay the start of the school year. The governor is the only Texas official with the power to call special legislative sessions. School board members were scheduled to discuss that Saturday, but the school district postponed the meeting at the request of the police chief’s lawyer. School officials have also requested that state troopers be on every campus at the beginning of the school year.

The 18-year-old gunman in the Robb Elementary School shooting used an assault rifle to carry out the massacre.

Officials want the Legislature to increase the legal age for the weapon, which an 18-year-old used to kill 21 at Robb Elementary.

Her lawyer did not provide any further information about why she was placed on leave.

The gunman who killed 19 elementary students and two teachers bought the assault rifle he used after turning 18 just days before the massacre.

The principal of Robb Elementary School has been placed on administrative leave, her attorney confirmed to CNN.

The school board is expected to consider the development of a new elementary school, approve an updated 2022-2023 calendar and vote on a resolution to be forwarded to Gov. Greg Abbott asking him to call a special legislative session to consider raising the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic assault rifles from 18 to 21.

Community members and victims' families came together to raise money to support survivors of the Robb Elementary shooting and to continue to demand accountability.

"I care about Pete. I care that he's mentally OK," a friend of Arredondo's told The Associated Press, but also called for "consequences."

The school district canceled the meeting at the request of Arredondo’s lawyer. A new date has not been set.

The school district canceled the meeting at the request of Arredondo’s lawyer. A new date has not been set.

Uvalde school officials are pushing back a decision on the future of embattled district Police Chief Pete Arredondo.

Uvalde school officials on Friday canceled a meeting to decide the future of embattled district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was facing the possibility of becoming the first officer to be fired over the slow law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School massacre. Arredondo's job was set to be discussed in an abruptly called school board meeting that was scheduled for Saturday. The reversal comes just two days after Uvalde's superintendent moved to fire Arredondo amid mounting public pressure and growing impatience in South Texas for accountability after police body camera footage and a damning new report revealed how officers waited in the school hallway for more than 70 minutes instead of confronting the gunman inside a fourth-grade classroom.

PeteArredondo Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officials canceled Saturday's board meeting which was slated to review the employment of UCISD police chief Pete Arredondo and said he is now on unpaid administrative leave. District officials announced the change Friday afternoon and said the meeting was postponed to allow for due process, as requested by Arredondo's

The new material further illustrates the lack of coordination among officers, the confusion over the chain of command and the delays in confronting the shooter.

Opinion: Uvalde locals are pointing fingers at the state, and state officials are laying the blame on locals.

Uvalde school officials will decide the fate of district police Chief Pete Arredondo...

Families have been calling for his termination since the shooting.

The school board plans to meet Saturday to vote on the proposal, days after a Texas House committee report highlighted widespread failures in the police response to the Robb Elementary shooting.

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.

A Texas House committee investigating the incident blasted Arredondo for failing to lead at the scene of the Robb Elementary School shooting.

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief’s termination could be decided at a school board meeting this weekend, according to a CNN report.

For about three hours, people demanded the resignation of the school district superintendent and threatened to keep their children out of school until campus security is improved.

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The department’s officers made up nearly one-fourth of the 376 law enforcement members...

Uvalde residents will get a chance to ask questions and raise concerns over school safety.

The Texas House report into the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting charts a massive but uncoordinated and chaotic response from law enforcement.

The investigative committee found law enforcement's response to the massacre involved little coordination and no leadership. School faculty, meanwhile, failed to uphold existing safeguards.

Lt. Mariano Pargas was the acting city police chief the day of the shooting. Mayor Don McLaughlin said the city is investigating Pargas’ role in the delayed confrontation of the shooter.

The most extensive account of the shooting to date says that after the Uvalde schools...

After the Uvalde schools police chief failed to take charge, other departments should have stepped up, the report says.

In total, 376 law enforcement officers descended upon the school, according to the most extensive account of the shooting to date. It says that better-equipped departments should have stepped up to fill a leadership void after the Uvalde schools police chief failed to take charge.

The City of Uvalde painted its law enforcement officers as “heroes” that had “zero hesitation” and saved hundreds of people in the May 24 attack on Robb Elementary School, according to a document presented to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

A father of a student killed in the attack on Robb Elementary School says there is “no excuse” for police inaction seen in hallway surveillance videos released this week.

On May 24, a gunman fatally shot 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

On May 24, a gunman fatally shot 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

The Uvalde City Council on Tuesday night unanimously accepted the resignation of District 3 City Councilman Pete Arredondo, who is also the embattled school district police chief.

In a resolution passed Monday, the commissioners pushed for Texas lawmakers to consider raising the minimum age for purchasing semi-automatic assault-style rifles from 18 to 21.

The Uvalde City Council is meeting on Tuesday night to decide whether to accept Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo’s resignation from his seat on the council.

Elected officials and law enforcement leaders criticized the leak of the video that was supposed to first be shown to victims’ families.

Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with an AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed.

Texas lawmakers investigating the Uvalde school massacre say it intends to show residents of the town surveillance video from the hallway at Robb Elementary School on the day of the May 24 attack.

A new report on the Uvalde elementary school massacre in Texas says a police officer had a chance to open fire on the gunman but missed it while waiting for permission to shoot.

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin says he suspects Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw is “covering up” details of the Robb Elementary School massacre.