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Uvalde school police chief defends delay in entering classroom

Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo, third from left, has come under mounting criticism over his role in the response of the school shooting in Robb Elementary School last month [Dario Lopez-Mills/AP]

The Texas school police chief criticised for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in US history has said that he did not consider himself the person in charge as the massacre unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response.

Pete Arredondo, the police chief of the Uvalde school district, in an interview published on Thursday told the Texas Tribune that he intentionally left behind both his police and campus radios before entering Robb Elementary School.

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