UVALDE, Tex. – The former police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District in Texas was charged for child endangerment on Thu., June 27 following the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School, NBC News reports.
52-year-old Pete Arredondo was booked into the Uvalde jail Thursday afternoon.
NBC News says the Justice Department released a 600-page report on the shooting earlier in 2024 stating that poor training on “active shooter” protocols led to a failure in their response and the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children.
The report says Arredondo was in command of the police response for the shooting, in which the department said officers backed off after an initial burst of gunfire instead of engaging the shooter. The shooter was confronted over 70 minutes later and was killed.
Arredondo was unanimously fired by the school board in Aug. 2022, a few months after the May 24, 2022 shooting, according to NBC News.
