Uvalde, head of the consolidated independent school district police, Pete Arredondo.CTV News
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The Uvalde School Board decided not to initiate disciplinary action against Police Chief Pete Arredondo.
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On May 24, an 18-year-old man shot and killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school.
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Arredondo has been criticized for delaying action against the gunman.
The board of the consolidated independent school district of Uvalde refused to take disciplinary action against the district police chief, Pete Arredondo, during a meeting on Friday, Axios reported.
Arredondo has been under fire since the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary, during which an 18-year-old gunman left 19 children and two adults dead.
The gunman had barricaded himself inside a classroom with children, while Arredondo and 19 other officers spent more than an hour waiting in an outside hallway.
Officials later told reporters that Arredondo was the one who decided that officers should not confront the gunman because he believed the gunman was barricaded alone.
The Texas Department of Homeland Security also accused Arredondo of not cooperating with an investigation into the incident.
Parents waiting outside during the shooting reportedly tried to enter the school and save their children, police handcuffed them.
A father managed to grab his two children during the shooting. She later told CBS News that police had handcuffed and threatened her to talk to the media about her experience with officers as she tried to escape arrest and save her children.
During the district board meeting, officials announced that students and staff will not return to the Robb Elementary campus, which will be permanently closed.
The school, Axios reported, will be moved to a new address, while the existing building will become “something different from the school,” Superintendent Hal Harrell said.
Read the original article in Insider