The Texas state senator who represents Uvalde, alongside the parents of the children killed in the state’s deadliest school shooting, are calling on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s director to resign following reports a former trooper who responded to the massacre was hired as a school district police officer.
CNN reported Wednesday that Crimson Elizondo — one of the first of the 91 DPS officers to respond to the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers — was hired as an officer for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
According to CNN, Elizondo was one of seven troopers under investigation for their response to the massacre, but resigned over the summer. Video released Wednesday by the network showed Elizondo remarking on she would have acted differently if she had a child in the school.
