Council to consider giving embattled Uvalde school police chief leave of absence
Uvalde City Council meets for a special emergency session at noon on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. Embattled councilman Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, who was the law enforcement official in charge during the incident at Robb Elementary School where 19 children and two teachers died on May 24, did not attend. On Tuesday night, council members will consider whether to grant Arredondo a leave of absence.
The council, which will meet at 6 p.m., posted an agenda item that calls for granting Arredondo, 50, a leave of absence. The item did not specify how long the embattled police chief, the on-scene incident commander during the rampage that left 19 students and two teachers dead, would be away from council business.Earlier Tuesday, Arredondo was lambasted in a Texas House hearing into the shooting and the police response to it.
The latest reports indicate that first responders arrived at Robb Elementary School minutes after the gunman began firing on students and teachers, and soon were armed with bulletproof shields and assault-style weapons. Still, they waited more than an hour to enter the connected classrooms where the shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18, had barricaded himself.
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