Uvalde’s disgraced police chief Pete Arredondo is FIRED by unanimous board vote
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Uvalde’s disgraced school police chief Pete Arredondo is FIRED in unanimous board vote after his officers stood by while gunman slaughtered 19 students and two teachers
- The Uvalde school board voted unanimously on Wednesday to fire Pete Arredondo as the school’s police chief
- Arredondo has been accused of ordering officers to stand back for nearly an hour as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers
- He has been on administrative leave since the May 24 mass shooting
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The Uvalde school district’s embattled police chief was fired on Wednesday after a report found that he made several critical mistakes when responding to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
In a unanimous vote, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board of trustees dismissed police Chief Pete Arredondo, three months to the day after one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.
Arredondo has been on leave from the district since June 22, after questions first arose about the police response to the mass shooting, when officers stood back for more than an hour while a gunman barricaded himself inside a classroom and opened fire.
Officials have said Arredondo should have acted sooner in the massacre, as he was in charge of the law enforcement response to the shooting.
He is now the first officer dismissed over law enforcement’s response to the May 24 tragedy. Only one other officer — Uvalde Police Department Lt. Mariano Pargas, who was the city’s acting police chief on the day of massacre — is known to have been placed on leave for their actions during the shooting.
Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredndo has been fired from his position. He is pictured here at a press conference following the shooting at Robb Elementary School