AUSTIN — A key legislative committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting will hold its first meeting Thursday in Austin. Law enforcement officials,...
and evidence in the review of police response to the shooting that left 19 schoolchildren and two teachers dead, as well as 17 injured.” about the police response to the shooting. The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Steve McCraw, has said it was “the wrong decision” to keep officers at bay for more than an hour while the 18-year-old gunman remained barricaded in a classroom.
The commander of the response, Uvalde schools’ police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, has been a focal point of criticism while officials’ account of the shooting has been plagued with misinformation and new information that call into question Arredondo’s decisions as the scene commander. Arredondo has disappeared from public view in the aftermath. It was unclear whether the committee will call on Arredondo to testify.
No further hearings have been scheduled beyond Thursday’s hearing. The governor’s requested committees have not yet held any hearings as well. Lubbock Republican Rep. Dustin Burrows is chairing the committee. El Paso Democratic Rep. Joe Moody and former Texas Supreme Court Judge Eva Guzman, who unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for attorney general this year, are also on the committee.. Philip Jankowski has covered government, politics and criminal justice in Texas for 13 years. He previously worked for the Austin American-Statesman, the Killeen Daily Herald and the Taylor Press.
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