At a news conference Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw said the person who made the decision not to breach the Uvalde elementary school classroom where a gunman was shooting children and teachers was the school district police chief, calling it the “wrong decision” to not engage the gunman sooner.
Highlights
- Pedro “Pete” Arredondo is identified on the Uvalde School District website as the police chief.
- At a news conference Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col.
- Steven McCraw called it the “wrong decision” to not engage the gunman sooner.
- At the news conferences on Tuesday in the hours following the shooting at Robb Elementary.
- At one of the news.com news conferences, Arred.d stated the gunman was deceased, but provided little other information on the massacre, citing an “active investigation” and taking no questions from those gathered.
- CNN attempted to reach Arredondondo at his home on Friday, but there was no response.