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Some parents and community members are calling for more school district employees to be fired and for the state to raise the minimum age for buying an assault rifle.

The firing of Uvalde's embattled school police chief hasn't satisfied or reassured many Uvalde residents as a new school year approaches

Arredondo "respectfully requests the Board immediately reinstate him, with all backpay and benefits"

Pete Arredondo defends law enforcement response to attack that left 21 dead. Plus, Missouri school district to reinstate corporal punishment

Pete Arredondo has taken the brunt of the criticism for how local police officers handled the incident on May 24

The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday under mounting pressure in the grieving Texas town to punish officers over letting a gunman at Robb Elementary School remain in a fourth-grade classroom for more than an hour with an AR-15 style rifle as 19 children and two…

Chief Pete Arredondo is the first officer dismissed over the police response to the May 24 tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas

State officials called Pete Arrendondo’s leadership during shooting an ‘abject failure’

Families of the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary had been demanding Arredondo be fired since details became clear of the law enforcement failures that day.

Pete Arredondo was seen as the "incident commander" overseeing law enforcement's response to the shooting.

Chief Pete Arredondo refused to attend the meeting where the school board voted to terminate his employment, citing concerns for his own safety.