Uvalde rekindles school police officer’s looming fears
The fear that the next school shooting could happen in their hallways hangs over school resource officers across the United States.
The fear that the next school shooting could happen in their hallways hangs over school resource officers across the United States.
The superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District is recommending the termination of Pete Arredondo, the district’s police chief.
The report is the clearest, most-detailed picture yet of what happened that day, during which local, state, and federal law enforcement waited for more than an hour to confront the gunman.
Minutes after the gunman entered the school, at least seven police officers entered the school. The video shows some of them running toward the classrooms.
“These are the same green Converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting.”
The official narrative of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has changed drastically since news of an active shooter at the school emerged on May 24.
It’s been an extraordinary process that has seen officials repeatedly correcting earlier statements, after they’re contradicted by new information.
“We did verify she closed the door. The door did not lock. We know that much and now investigators are looking into why it did not lock.”
The county is so small that the justice on call also acts as Uvalde’s de facto coroner.
He doesn’t expect he’ll ever be the same.
Irma Garcia, a fourth-grade teacher who’d worked at the school for more than 20 years, was killed in her classroom in the shooting last Tuesday.