School police and other law enforcement officers took 77 minutes after the first shots were fired in May 2022 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, to go after the 18-year-old shooter. Nineteen fourth graders and two teachers were killed.
Today, the former school police chief and one officer were indicted on charges related to their response during the massacre, NBC News, CNN, and The New York Times report. Pete Arredondo, the former police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, was charged with abandoning and endangering a child.
Robb Elementary School, 2022“Mr Arredondo is currently in our custody,” the Uvalde County sheriff, Ruben Nolasco, said in a text message to the Times, adding that Mr Arredondo was being held on the charge of “abandoning/endangering of a child,” a felony.
“It has been an unbearable two years,” CNN quoted Javier Cazares, the father of 9-year-old victim Jacklyn Cazares, as saying at a news conference last month. “We all know who took our children’s lives, but there was an obvious systemic failure out there on May 24. The whole world saw that,” he said.
