The head of the Uvalde school police force quit his City Council seat amid criticism over his response to the Robb Elementary School shooting, according to a resignation letter the city government released on Saturday local time.
Key points:
- Pete Arredondo's delayed response to the mass shooting has been widely criticised
- Arredondo led a team of six officers responsible for ensuring the safety of Uvalde’s schools
- His resignation comes after being placed on 'administrative leave' last month
Pete Arredondo was elected to Uvalde's City Council to oversee policing for the district's independent schools a few weeks before the May 24 shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers.
Chief Arredondo said in the letter he was stepping down “to minimise further distractions” in Uvalde.
His resignation plans were first reported by the Uvalde Leader-News independent newspaper.
A top state law enforcement official said last month that Chief Arredondo, the onsite commander during the shooting, made “terrible decisions” and officers at the scene lacked sufficient training, costing valuable time during which lives might have been saved.
The shooting has shaken the tight-knit community.(ABC News: Cameron Schwarz)
Uvalde city officials said in a statement that resigning was “the right thing to do” for Chief Arredondo.
Chief Arredondo had said he never considered himself incident commander and that he did not order police to hold back on breaching the building.
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Witnesses question police response during Texas shooting rampage.
Outrage over the massacre helped galvanise support in the US Congress for the first major federal gun reform in nearly three decades, which President Joe Biden signed into law on June 25.
Before announcing his plans to resign from his City Council seat, Chief Arredondo was already at risk of being removed from office after missing several council meetings.
The city's school district last month placed him on administrative leave from his duties as police chief.
Many parents and relatives of children and staff at Robb Elementary School have expressed anger over delays in police action after the gunman entered the school.
As many as 19 officers waited for more than an hour in a hallway before a US Border Patrol-led tactical team finally made entry and killed the 18-year-old gunman.
A state official said last month that police wasted time searching for a key to the classroom where the shooting occurred, but that the door that needed opening was not locked.
Reuters
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