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Five Department of Public Safety officers face a formal investigation over Uvalde shooting response

Hundreds of law enforcement officers from several local, state and federal agencies have been heavily criticized for the delayed response in confronting the gunman during the worst school shooting in Texas history.

The Texas Tribune

Police officers involved in disastrous Uvalde shooting response could return to school, parents learn

Some residents left frustrated at lack of answers

The Independent UK

Uvalde residents question the school district’s new safety plans for first school year since mass shooting

Uvalde trustees are unsure if officers who will provide school security this year were part of the delayed response to the shooting at Robb Elementary.

The Texas Tribune

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“We’re not done”: Uvalde residents say the fight for accountability won’t stop with Pete Arredondo’s firing

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 Texas Tribune

Broken trust still felt in Uvalde as school year approaches

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

The Independent UK

Fired Uvalde chief plays the victim

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

Salon

First Thing: Uvalde police chief fired for school shooting response

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

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Uvalde police chief fired for botched response to school shooting

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

Evening Standard

Uvalde, Texas school board sacks police chief after mass shooting

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…

France 24

Uvalde school board fires police chief over response to mass shooting

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

Wales Online

Uvalde police chief fired months after overseeing disastrous response to school massacre

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

The Independent UK

Uvalde school police chief fired 3 months after botched response to school shooting

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.

WEKU

Uvalde school board fires police chief Pete Arredondo over mass shooting

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

Axios

Uvalde school board votes unanimously to fire Police Chief Pete Arredondo after Robb Elementary School massacre in Texas

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

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The Independent UK

Uvalde police chief accuses board of ‘lynching’ as he faces firing over police response ‘failure’ in shooting

School police chief has been on leave since June

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde school board fires Chief Pete Arredondo over shooting response, after he calls vote a “public lynching”

Uvalde school officials have faced mounting pressure to fire Arredondo, who received much of the blame for the delay in confronting the shooter during the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary.

The Independent UK

Uvalde school board to consider firing district police chief

Uvalde’s embattled district police chief is set to face becoming the first officer to lose his job over the slow and bungled law enforcement response to one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history

Tribune News Service

Uvalde families to file $27 billion civil lawsuit against police, gun manufacturer over school shooting

The families of the victims and survivors of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, are preparing to file a massive lawsuit against the local and state police, the shop that sold gunman Salvador Ramos his weapon and the manufacturer who made the gun.

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The Texas Tribune

Uvalde school officials to discuss firing Pete Arredondo on Aug. 24

The meeting will happen exactly three months after Arredondo was among the first law enforcement officers to arrive at Robb Elementary, where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.

The Independent UK

Uvalde council will investigate every city police officer at scene of massacre as families call for firings

Victims’ families, community members and officials continue to demand answers around the botched law enforcement response to the 24 May massacre

The Guardian - US

Principal of Uvalde elementary school suspended in wake of deadly shooting

Mandy Gutierrez put on administrative leave, as 77-page report details multiple failures from police and other Texas officials

The Independent UK

Robb Elementary School principal suspended in wake of Uvalde mass shooting

A Texas House committee report revealed that Principal Mandy Gutierrez knew that the classroom door didn’t lock properly – but failed to have it repaired

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde school board pushes Greg Abbott for special legislative session to increase legal age for purchasing assault rifles

The gunman who killed 19 elementary students and two teachers bought the assault rifle he used after turning 18 just days before the massacre.

Tribune News Service

Former school police chief in Uvalde ‘disappointed’ by law enforcement failures

UVALDE, Texas — He’s sat with grieving family members at funerals, and accompanied them to ongoing wakes to honor victims of one of the most gruesome mass school shootings in the country.

The Independent UK

Uvalde school board cancels meeting to vote on police chief’s firing over bungled shooting response

Meeting for vote on Pete Arredondo’s removal was postponed indefinitely

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