Uvalde school police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo has joined the Uvalde City Council, growing his influence in the town a week after 19 students and two faculty members were killed at Robb Elementary School in a mass shooting and amid unconfirmed reports that his department has stopped cooperating with a state investigation into the police response to that attack.
Mr Arredondo was sworn in on Tuesday. The council chose to forgo a ceremony marking Mr Arredondo’s joining out of respect for the families having funerals this week for their loved ones lost in the shooting.
