Thu, 23 Jun 22 08:01:09 +0000

The Yuvalde School police chief was stopped after weeks of brewing anger at the failure to react to the shooters.

(CNN)A family of tragic children slaughtered at an elementary school in Yuvarde, Texas for weeksAccountability for delays in police action in the fight against gunners.

On Tuesday, Texas Chief Executive Officerdescribed the responseas a "serious failure."

At the heart of his anger was the school district's police chief.Pedro "Pete" ArredondoHe was put on vacation on Wednesday, almost a month after his bloody blood.

"From the beginning of this horrific event, I shared waiting for the district to complete the investigation before making a personnel decision," said Halharel, director of the Uvalde Integrated Independent School District, in a statement. ..

"Today, I do not yet have the details of the investigations being conducted by various agencies. Due to the remaining lack of clarity and the uncertain timing of receiving the findings, I called Prime Minister Aledondo. The decision to take leave to take effect on this day. "

Arredondo and corresponding law enforcement agencies faced intense criticism over the length of time thatpolice officers were stationed in the corridors outside adjacent classrooms 111 and 112. did. A 1-year-old shooter and victim were found.

The Texas Department of Public Safetyupdated timelineshows that shooters fired at officers corresponding to the first few minutes of shooting, two of whom were grazing wounds. I owed. However, more than 70 minutes had passed before the shooter was shot dead by theauthorities who attacked the room

earlier this month, Aledondo himself was commander of the case to the Texas Tribune. Anddid not instruct police officerto refrain from invading the scene.

The grandmother of the shooting victim, Berlinda Irene Arreola Amerie Jo Garza, said Arredondo was not present at a tense city council on Tuesday. The school's police chief was elected to the council earlier this year and has been out of the public eye since the shooting.

"He made us fail," Arreola told the councilor about Arredondo. "Don't make the same mistakes he made and let us fail. Go ahead and do the right thing. Please, please. Free this man from our lives."

The council later unanimously resolved that Aledondo refused to take leave from thefuture council meeting, and the decision was made with applause from the attending residents. According to the city charter, Arredondo could be dismissed if he did not attend three consecutive city council meetings for no reason.

Arreola talked to CNN on Wednesday about the pain of losing 10-year-old Amerie and the subsequent fallout.

"It's getting harder and harder every day until she's gone. It's a wound we feel, but there's also the anger that unfolds in front of us," Arreola said ofCNN's Brianna Keilartold. 54}

"We have to speak for all these children, all our families. We have to do things right. Underlying everything that has happened, We need to find out the truth. "

Amerie's stepfather, Angel Ghaza, is afirst medical responder at the shooting site, on Wednesday at CNN, police out of the classroom. He said he did not understand how the police did not act when he was there. Very close to the victim.

"I can't hear the kids crying and asking for help, but I'm afraid to get in because the commander doesn't want you to get in," he said.

His parents, including himself, were "just outside" the school. "I was about to enter, handcuffed," he said, and the police he commissioned "did not save my daughter and other children," distraught.

Arredondo testified to the Texas House Commission on Tuesday in a closed room about the day of the shooting and did not comment publicly. CNN is seeking comment from Arredondo's lawyer.

Lieutenant Mike Hernandez took on the role of UCISD police chief during Aledondo's vacation,according to the school district.

Mayor Uvalde calls DPS director

Arredondo received most of the public criticism of how police handled the crisis, but Uvalde On Tuesday, the mayor immediately pointed out, he believes that other law enforcement agencies will also be held accountable and need to keep the city authorities up to date.

In a statement at a city council meeting, Mayor Don McLaughlin accused Colonel Stephen McLaugh, director of DPS, of failing to take responsibility for his department, and of at least eight law enforcement agencies. An officer said he was inside Robb Elementary School during the shooting.

"Colonel McLaugh continues to lie, divulge, mislead, and misrepresent information to keep his soldiers and Rangers away from the response. That day. The number of his own officers and rangers on the scene. "

McLaughlin also accused a leak from an unnamed source he said was intended to transfer criticisms of police response from specific agencies to local law enforcement agencies.

"Colonel McLaugh has an agenda and is not about giving a complete report of what happened or giving a factual answer about what happened to this community. "The mayor said he intended to receive daily explanations, he added. It was provided by the authorities the day after the shooting, but nothing was provided.

TuesdayTexas Senate Hearing Macrowordered police to wait for unwanted equipment and keys on doors that may not be locked as suspects. As a blame for Aledondo.

CNN is seeking comment from the Texas Department of Public Safety.