Saturday, June 29, 2024 7:43PMThe police chief for schools in Uvalde, Texas, made critical decisions that slowed the law enforcement response to stop a gunman who was "hunting" victims and ultimately killed 21 people at Robb Elementary, according to an indictment.
"I want every single person who was in the hallway charged for failure to protect the most innocent," said Velma Duran, whose sister Irma Garcia was one of the teachers killed. "My sister put her body in front of those children to protect them, something they could have done. They had the means and the tools to do it. My sister had her body."
Scathing state and federal investigative reports on the police response have catalogued "cascading failures" in training, communication, leadership and technology problems.The indictment against Arredondo, who was the on-site commander at the shooting, accused the chief of delaying the police response despite hearing shots fired and being notified that injured children were in the classrooms and a teacher had been shot.
The first U.S. law enforcement officer ever tried for allegedly failing to act during an on-campus shooting was a campus sheriff's deputy in Florida who didn't go into the classroom building and confront the perpetrator of the 2018 Parkland massacre. The deputy, who was fired, was acquitted of felony neglect last year. A lawsuit by the victims' families and survivors is pending.The families are pursing accountability from authorities in other state and federal courts.
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