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Police chief had no radio during Texas school shooting: Senator

A boy walks along a memorial outside Robb Elementary School, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers last week [Eric Gay/AP Photo]

The police chief in charge of the response to last week’s deadly attack at a Texas primary school was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded, a state senator has told The Associated Press, citing the state agency investigating the mass shooting.

Senator Roland Gutierrez told the news agency on Friday that a Texas Department of Public Safety official told him school district police Chief Pete Arredondo was without a radio during the May 24 attack.

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