With funerals for victims of last week’s school shooting now taking place in Uvalde, Texas, the city’s mayor has postponed a city council meeting at which new members – including school district police chief Pedro "Pete" Arredondo – were to be sworn in.
Highlights
- With funerals for victims of last week’s school shooting now taking place in Uvalde, Texas, the city’s mayor postpones a city council meeting.
- Mayor Don McLaughlin: “Our focus on Tuesday is on our families who lost loved ones” 19 school children and two teachers were killed in two adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary by an 18-year-old gunman.
- Police waited outside for more than an hour during the massacre, while children in the classrooms repeatedly called 911, begging for help.
- At a Friday press conference, Texas Department of Public Safety director Col.
- Steven McCraw confirmed that the school district police chief was the official who made the decision not to breach the classrooms.