School district police chief Pete Arredondo believed the Uvalde shooting had turned into hostage situation, a law enforcement official said last week.
The commander at the scene of the at a Texas elementary school was not informed of panicked 911 calls coming from students trapped inside the building as the massacre unfolded, a state senator said Thursday. Sen. Roland Gutierrez said the pleas for help from people inside Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School on May 24 did not make their way to school district police chief. The Democratic senator called it a «system failure» that calls were going to the city police but were not communicated to Arredondo.
«I want to know specifically who was receiving the 911 calls», Gutierrez said during a news conference, adding that no single person or entity was fully to blame for the massacre. However, he said, Republican Gov. should accept much of the responsibility for the failures in the police response.
«There was error at every level, including the legislative level. Greg Abbott has plenty of blame in all of this», Gutierrez said.
died in the attack, the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. Seventeen more were injured. for the victims began this week. Abbott has ordered the state to conduct in-person school district security audits and asked top lawmakers to convene a legislative committee to make recommendations on school and firearm safety, mental health and other issues.
