Uvalde college board fires police chief after mass taking pictures

The Uvalde college district fired police chief Pete Arredondo for permitting a gunman with an AR-15 fashion rifle to stay in a fourth-grade classroom for greater than an hour, killing 19 kids and two lecturers.

Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo, third from left, stands throughout a information convention exterior of the Robb Elementary college (AP Photo)

The Uvalde college district fired police chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday below mounting stress within the grieving Texas city to punish officers over letting a gunman at Robb Elementary School stay in a fourth-grade classroom for greater than an hour with an AR-15 fashion rifle as 19 kids and two lecturers have been killed.

In a unanimous vote, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board of trustees fired Arredondo in an auditorium of fogeys and survivors of the May 24 bloodbath, making him the primary officer to lose his job following one of many deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. historical past.

His ouster got here three months to the day after the tragedy, and fewer than two weeks earlier than college students return to highschool in Uvalde, the place some kids stay too scared or scarred to return inside a classroom.

Cheers from the group adopted the vote, and a few dad and mom walked out of an auditorium in tears. Outside, a number of Uvalde residents referred to as for different Uvalde officers to observe Arredondo out the door.

“Coward!” some within the viewers yelled because the assembly obtained underway.

Arredondo, who has been on depart from the district since June 22, has come below essentially the most intense scrutiny of the almost 400 officers who rushed to highschool however waited greater than 70 minutes to confront the 18-year-old gunman in a fourth-grade classroom.

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