Uvalde Police Chief Is Put on Administrative Leave, 28 Days After Elementary School Massacre
The director of Texas' state police laid blame for the abject failure of a response on Pete Arredondo.
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Pete Arredondo—the police chief for the Uvalde, Texas, school district police—has been put on administrative leave a full 28 days after the massacre at Robb Elementary School last month. Arredondo is being held responsible for holding up the police response to the horrific shooting, which left 19 students and 2 teachers dead.
In a press release on Wednesday night, Dr. Hal Harrell, superintendent of Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, said that while he is “still without details of the investigation,” he chose to put Arredondo on administrative leave. “Because of the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of when I will receive the results of the investigations, I have made the decision to place Chief Arredondo on administrative leave effective on this date,” Harrell said in the statement.