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Monday, June 20, 2022
UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING
Uvalde school district police chief won't appear at Texas House shooting hearing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...house-committee
by Jack Birle, Breaking News Reporter


A Texas House committee investigating the school shooting in Uvalde last month will hear from key law enforcement witnesses on Monday, with one notable exception.

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo will not be present at the hearing. The witness list for the hearing includes Uvalde CISD Officer Adrian Gonzalez, Chief Daniel Rodriguez, Sgt. Daniel Coronado of the Uvalde Police Department, and Trooper Joshua Bordovsky of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

UVALDE OFFICER PASSED UP SHOT AT GUNMAN BEFORE SHOOTER ENTERED SCHOOL: REPORT

Arredondo has faced sharp criticism for his department's response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School, which left 19 students and two teachers dead.

Earlier this month, Arredondo defended his department's response in an interview with the Texas Tribune.

"We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced," Arredondo said. "Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat."

Rodriguez will testify after his department received criticism last week from lawmakers for not cooperating with the investigation. The department reversed its stance and is now cooperating with the committee.

The chairman of the special committee, Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock, said in remarks Friday the city and police department in Uvalde would cooperate with the investigation.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

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The more we learn the worse it gets! Which fully explains their efforts to prevent our learning more.

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ISailed, some of the responses on that Twitter thread you posted are ridiculous. Sounds like a bunch of nuevo Austinites expressing stupid and uninformed opinions.

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Today we learned that Uvalde police had body armor, ballistic shields, could have stopped the shooter in three minutes, the door to the classroom was never locked, and no attempt was made to open it. School Police Chief Pete Arredondo allowed this to happen. The question is why?
11:51 AM · Jun 21, 2022·Twitter Web App


https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1539289943624802305

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Today we learned that Uvalde police had body armor, ballistic shields, could have stopped the shooter in three minutes, the door to the classroom was never locked, and no attempt was made to open it. School Police Chief Pete Arredondo allowed this to happen. The question is why?
11:51 AM · Jun 21, 2022·Twitter Web App


https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1539289943624802305

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Officer husband of slain Uvalde teacher was detained, had gun taken away after trying to save wife
Texas DPS director said Eva Mireles told her husband she ‘had been shot and was dying’

Shocking testimony from the Texas DPS director on Tuesday has revealed even more insight into the “abject failure” of response to the Uvalde shooting that occurred on May 24.

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw revealed that the husband of slain elementary teacher Eva Mireles tried to save her but was barred from doing so.

Ruben Ruiz is a police officer for the school district and was on the scene after the gunman entered the school and opened fire.

McCraw said Mireles called Ruiz and told him that “she had been shot and was dying.”

“And what happened to him, is he tried to move forward into the hallway,” McCraw said. “He was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.”

McCraw didn’t say who specifically detained Ruiz.
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/06/..._content=ksat12

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