HOUSTON – The attorney representing for the former Uvalde school police chief, who was part of the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, discussed the charges filed against him.
The news conference was held at the law office of Looney, Smith & Conrad, where they will talk about the issues with the Uvalde school shooting at Robb Elementary that resulted in criminal charges filed against Arredondo.
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Pete Arredondo, along with other officers, reportedly waited 77 minutes after being first alerted to confront the gunman.
Arredondo was indicted June 28 on 10 state jail felony counts of abandoning or endangering a child in the May 24, 2022, attack that killed 19 children and two teachers.
The indictment lists Arredondo as the incident commander of an incident involving an active shooter on a school campus that was under his control.
More specifically, under each count, the charge said that Arredondo, by act and omission intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, and with criminal negligence, placed a child younger than 15 years of age in imminent danger of bodily injury, death, physical impairment, and mental impairment.
Some of the failures listed are failing to identify the incident as an active shooter incident, delaying response by law enforcement officers to an active shooter situation, failing to enforce an active shooter response plan developed by Uvalde Consolidated ISD, deciding to negotiate while the gunman was engaged in an active shooter incident and failing to timely provide keys and breaching tools to enter classrooms 111 and 112.
Arredondo was fired months after the massacre.
Since then, Arredondo has been a central figure in the scrutiny and outrage surrounding the police response to the incident.