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Uvalde School Police Chief Refuses to Cooperate with State Investigation, Sworn In as City Councilmember

HeadlineJun 01, 2022

Funerals are continuing in Uvalde, Texas, for the 19 fourth graders and two teachers shot dead at Robb Elementary School last week. The state’s probe into the police handling of the school shooting is facing a major new obstacle as the police chief of the Uvalde school district, Pete Arredondo, is refusing to cooperate with state investigators. Arredondo was the incident commander who ordered officers to wait in the school’s hallways for about an hour instead of confronting the gunman, who was eventually shot dead by a Border Patrol agent. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Arredondo was secretly sworn in as a city councilmember, but no public ceremony was held.

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