The City of Uvalde has released a new batch of footage related to the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in May 2022.
This footage, which includes police body camera and dash camera videos, reveals the chaotic response.
KPRC 2, and its parent company Graham Media Group, are among a group of television stations and other news outlets that sued the City of Uvalde for public information that was not being released.
This is the second trove of footage released by the city, the first in August. This latest batch includes at least 10 police body camera clips and several dashboard recordings that capture the tense moments as officers rushed to the elementary school.
Among the released footage, officers share their frustration amongst one another about the overall response.
In one footage, a dispatcher on the radio is heard asking where first responders were sending students.
“M*********!” yelled an officer outside the school. “They still haven’t established where the kids need to go?”
In the same video, an officer is heard asking “Where’s Pete?” referring to Pete Arredondo, the former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief.
Arredondo faced scrutiny over the response to the shooting and has since been charged with 10 counts of endangering or abandoning the welfare of a child. He claims he did not believe he was in charge during the incident and feels he has been unfairly scapegoated.
Arredondo went on to tell the dispatcher that the suspect out-powered him and his two other officers with an AR-15. The police officers only had their pistols.
In a separate footage, an officer can be heard inside the school yelling, “Who’s in there? Who’s in this room?”
Another officer, then realizes it’s a student in the classroom, “It’s kids. It’s kids.” A single student walks out of the room. Officers then clear the room.
Federal agencies have criticized the response time, noting that it took law enforcement 77 minutes to enter the classroom after the shooter began firing.
The Uvalde District Attorney Christina Mitchell is overseeing a criminal investigation into the chaotic response.
