PETE ARREDONDO

Uvalde's City Charter says a council member who misses three consecutive meetings is subject to being replaced.

Police Chief Peter Arredondo of Uvalde CISD told the small city's newspaper he would be resigning from the Uvalde City Council.

Arredondo, the police chief for the Uvalde school district, will reportedly resign from his position on the city council.

Police Chief Pete Arredondo stepped down from his city council position amid criticism of his response to the massacre at Robb Elementary School.

Pete Arredondo stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Chief Pete Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News on Friday that he has decided to step down for the good of the city administration. The mayor, the city council, and the city staff must continue to move forward without distractions.

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.

In a letter to the city, Arredondo said he was stepping down from his elected position, citing a desire to “minimize further distractions.”

PeteArredondo Pete Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News on Friday that he is resigning from his seat on the Uvalde City Council. Arredondo, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief, was elected to the District 3 council position on May 7 and was sworn into the role on May 31, days after the May 24

A wide range of emotions played out Thursday inside the Uvalde City Council special meeting.

Uvalde’s mayor said city officials could be prosecuted for releasing details of the investigation. Pete Arredondo, the City Council member and school district police chief, was absent for the second straight meeting.

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.

It's telling that State Sen. Roland Gutierrez sued DPS to demand it release information about the law-enforcement response to the shooting.

In the month following the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, only a single officer from the Uvalde Police Department has departed the agency, city officials confirmed to the KSAT 12 Defenders.

Angeli Rose Gomez says Uvalde police are parking outside her home and telling her she's violated her probation by 'obstructing justice.'

PeteArredondo Pete Arredondo, the embattled chief of police for Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, was placed on administrative last week, per a UCISD press release issued shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday. While the school district did not say whether Arredondo would be paid while on leave, and specified there would be no further comment, administrative

Almost 300 high school seniors received their diplomas in Uvalde in the shadow of the massacre of 19 elementary school students and two children 5 1/2 weeks earlier.

Friday marks the one-month anniversary since the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24.

A month after a gunman walked unobstructed into a Texas elementary school and killed 21 people, grief has given way to anger as an investigation reveals that

The Uvalde School District superintendent said police Chief Pete Arredondo was placed on leave because the facts of what happened remain unclear.

The Uvalde School District superintendent said police Chief Pete Arredondo was placed on leave because the facts of what happened remain unclear.

DALLAS (AP) — The Uvalde school district’s police chief was put on leave Wednesday following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 stude[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Tuesday accused state authorities of selectively releasing information about last month’s school shooting to scapegoat local law enforcement and intentionally leaving ou[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

"You can never ask a child to go back, or a teacher to go back in that school ever," said Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin.

Chief Pete Arredondo and state officials have provided differing stories about what happened at Robb Elementary School.

The Uvalde school district’s police chief has been put on leave following allegations that he erred in his response to a mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

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.

Uvalde CISD Superintendent Hal Harrell announced Wednesday that he has placed the district’s embattled police chief, Pete Arredondo, on administrative leave.

"You can never ask a child to go back, or a teacher to go back in that school ever," said Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin.

“You said ‘we don’t have the power to fire him.' Let me give you a simple out.”

The first public hearings in Texas looking into the Uvalde school massacre have centered on law enforcement blunders, school building safety and mental health.

Relatives of the victims and other members of the community also called for the ousting of Pete Arredondo, who is the police chief of the city’s school district and a newly elected council member.

Texas top cop testified before lawmakers and said the Uvalde police chief's response "set our profession back a decade."

Texas top cop testified before lawmakers and said the Uvalde police chief's response "set our profession back a decade."

Texas top cop testified before lawmakers and said the Uvalde police chief's response "set our profession back a decade."

Families demand accountability as Uvalde's city leadership meets to review police response to the recent shooting.

Families demand accountability as Uvalde's city leadership meets to review police response to the recent shooting.

Families demand accountability as Uvalde's city leadership meets to review police response to the recent shooting.

The decision was made at a city council meeting where community members and victims' family members criticized Arredondo's response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police had enough officers and firepower on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, and they would have fou[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

State police have blamed Arredondo for delayed police response to shooting

New information released by law enforcement sources and the director of the Department of Public Safety tells a different story about police response to the shooting than Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo.

Update: June 21, 2022, 8:45 p.m.

Steve McCraw told a Texas Senate panel that the gunman could have been taken out minutes after starting had the commander not hesitated.

McCraw on Tuesday gave much-asked-for revelations about the timeline, mistakes and missed opportunities. Specifically, he said Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief and on-site commander, made “terrible decisions.”

Steve McCraw testified before a Texas Senate committee, laying blame on local police officers in Uvalde for not acting faster to save children during the school shooting.

Several family members of victims made emotional pleas during a school board meeting on Monday to fire Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo.

Instead, it took about an hour and 14 minutes from when officers arrived at the school to when they breached the door and ended the standoff with the gunman.

The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety says three minutes after a gunman entered a school where he slaughtered 19 elementary students and two teachers there was sufficient armed law enforcement on scene to stop the gunman.

The timeline from the Austin American-Statesman and Texas Tribune, which shows that officers had the resources necessary to intervene earlier to stop the shooting, raises new questions surrounding the response to the worst shooting at an American school in nearly a decade.

Officers were armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield within 19 minutes of the gunman's arrival on campus, a report found.

Officers were armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield within 19 minutes of the gunman's arrival on campus, a report found.

Officers were armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield within 19 minutes of the gunman's arrival on campus, a report found.

UPDATE: Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to stop the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw testified on Tuesday.

The officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary wanted to get inside classrooms 111 and 112 — immediately. Arredondo told the Tribune that he tried to open one door and another group of officers tried to open another, but that the door was reinforced and impenetrable. Officers had access to four ballistic shields inside the school during the standoff with the gunman, according to a law enforcement transcript. Officers believed that the shooter was contained, and Arredondo called the Uvalde Police Department’s dispatch on his cellphone. But Arredondo told the dispatcher that he didn’t have the firepower to confront the lone gunman, according to a transcript reviewed by The Texas Tribune.

Among them: a newspaper saying several officers with heavy firepower were at the school within 19 minutes but waited in a hallway almost an hour. Separately, victims' families called for the firing of the schools' police chief.

The Texas Tribune has reviewed law enforcement transcripts and footage that federal and state investigators are examining after the May 24 tragedy.

Documents examined by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV show armed police officers stood in a Uvalde elementary school hallway with at least one ballistic shield within 19 minutes of a gunman arriving at the school, where he killed 21 people, 19 of them children.

A source close to the investigation said surveillance footage showed police didn't check to see whether the doors were unlocked.

News reports indicate classroom doors could have been unlocked during mass shooting due to malfunction.

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have submitted about 70 requests to state and local agencies for emergency response documentation surrounding the mass shooting at Robb Elementary. Most likely won’t be released publicly for months, if ever.

An attorney representing the city confirmed via email no video or audio records of the swearing-in exist.

The chairman of a special state House committee taking testimony on the Uvalde school shooting says it's uncertain whether city police officials would testify voluntarily to the committee.

The Texas House of Representatives committee investigating the Robb Elementary School shooting will hold a hearing on Thursday morning in Uvalde.

The nine pages of blue ink on white lined paper show how the governor prepared his remarks for a news conference May 25, the day after the shooting — presumably based on information being given to him.

The nine pages of blue ink on white lined paper, first published by the Houston television station KTRK, show how the governor prepared his remarks for a news conference May 25, the day after the shooting — presumably based on information being given to him.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said that reports of troopers waiting idly outside two adjoining classrooms at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School, where a gunman killed 21 people last month, are “inaccurate.”

Until know, DPS officials haven't publicly stated the extent of troopers involvement in entering the school.

Fox News ‘Special Report’ host Bret Baier is set to moderate a debate between Senators Bernie Sanders (I) and Lindsay Graham (R), featured on Fox Nation’s new special, ‘The Senate Project.’

PeteArredondo After more than two weeks of silence since the mass shooting at Robb Elementary on May 24, Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo told The Texas Tribune that he and other officers wanted desperately to confront the shooter but were stymied by a locked and fortified door. As many as 19 officers, including

On Friday on the 6 p.m. news, KSAT 12 anchors Myra Arthur and Steve Spriester interviewed Barragan about the story.

Steel doors that are supposed to protect children inside the classroom instead gave a gunman more time to carry out a massacre, experts and officials said.

In this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Zach about the police response to the mass shooting in Uvalde.

The police chief said he wasn't aware that children and teachers in the classroom were desperately calling 911 for help because he didn't have his radio with him.

Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo insists he took the steps he thought would best protect lives at his hometown 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.

Criticized by law enforcement experts for slowness in taking out the shooter, Pete Arredondo described an agonizing wait for a key that would work. In an interview with The Texas Tribune, he said he hadn’t spoken out sooner because he didn’t want to compound his hometown’s grief or point blame.

As shots rang out inside Robb Elementary, Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo delayed officers for over an hour to confront the gunman, even though he was aware that some inside were in urgent need of medical care, according to ABC News.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police waited for protective equipment as they delayed entering the Texas elementary school where a gunman inside killed 19 children and two teachers, even as they became aware th[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history says in his first extensive published comments that he didn't consider himself the incident commander as the massacre unfolded.

Hal Harrell is expected to speak about grade level alignment, safety and security, counseling and other district updates.

Julye Keeble|Leader-NewsCNN correspondent Shimon Prokupecz and numerous other media personnel from ABC, NBC and other affiliates line the second-floor meeting room of the Uvalde City Council at city hall. The reporters were there to cover an emergency meeting, held June 7 at noon to renew a local disaster declaration. The meeting turned into a press

The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety has said Pete Arredondo made the "wrong decision" to not order officers to breach the classroom more quickly to confront the gunman.

UVALDE (AP) — The school district police chief criticized for waiting too long before ordering law enforcement to confront and kill the gunman during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school did n[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

The school district police chief criticized for waiting too long before ordering law enforcement to confront and kill the gunman during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school did not appear at a Uvalde City Council meeting, despite being newly elected to the panel.

UVALDE (AP) — The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded, a Texas state senator said Friday.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

A 9-year-old girl who was wounded in the Uvalde mass shooting last week has been released from a San Antonio hospital.

Where was their courage? Why were there no heroes?

Chief Pete Arredondo has been faulted for a slow response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary.

The revelation is the latest to point to deficiencies and missteps in authorities’ response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School. Police opted to wait for reinforcements and tactical gear, taking more than an hour to confront and take down the shooter.

A Texas state senator says the state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded.

The course included scenario training and informed officers taking part that in active shooter cases they “will usually be required to place themselves in harm’s way and display uncommon acts of courage to save the innocent.”

The former sheriff of Uvalde County said “true grit and leadership” were missing during the massacre that left 19 students and two teachers dead on May 24.

Phelan said it is an “outrage” that officials still do not have a clear picture of what happened during the shooting. The committee’s findings will inform the House’s legislative response.

The swearing in of Pete Arredondo and other recently elected Uvalde city council members Tuesday without a public ceremony was legal but sends the wrong message, an expert in local governance told KSAT on Wednesday.

Officials didn’t say where nearly 600 students will attend class or if school will be razed

The school district police chief who served as on-site commander during last week’s deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas, says he’s talking daily with investigators, contradicting claims from state law enforcement that he has stopped cooperating.

The Texas Department of Public Safety also has walked back a statement that a teacher had propped open a door used by the shooter to enter the school, saying instead that an automatic lock failed.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said a local police chief had stopped cooperating. It also walked back a statement that a teacher had propped open a door used by the shooter to enter the school.