"Uvalde police
indicted over role in slow response
to 2022 school massacre.
Pete Arredondo and Adrian Gonzales
first officers to face charges
in one of deadliest US school shootings.
The indictments will officially be kept under seal until the men are in custody,
and both are expected to turn themselves in by Friday.
Arredondo lost his job three months after the shooting.
Several officers involved were eventually fired,
and separate investigations by the US Department of Justice and state lawmakers faulted law enforcement with botching their response to the massacre.
Body-camera footage, investigations by journalists and damning government reports
have laid bare how over the course of more than an hour,
a mass of officers went in and out of the school with weapons drawn but did not go inside the classroom where the shooting was taking place.
The hundreds of officers at the scene included
state police,
Uvalde police,
school officers and
US Border Patrol agents.
In their July 2022 report,
Texas lawmakers
faulted law enforcement at every level with failing
'to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety'.
Robb elementary school is now permanently closed.
The city broke ground on a new school in October last year."
Pete Arredondo and Adrian Gonzales first officers to face charges in one of deadliest US school shootings, reports say
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"Uvalde school police chief Pedro Arredondo and another officer are charged
with child endangerment
over school massacre
that saw shooter Salvador Ramos kill 21."
Former chief Pedro 'Pete' Arredondo and Adrian Gonzales have been indicted on charges of child endangerment after 19 kids and two teachers died in the shooting.
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