The police official blamed for not sending officers in more quickly to stop the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting is the chief of the school system’s small police force, a unit dedicated ordinarily to building relationships with students and responding to the occasional fight.
A local police chief in Uvalde, Texas, hasn’t responded for a follow-up interview in a state investigation into the law enforcement response to an elementary school massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead, an official said Tuesday.
Texas officials previously said Chief Arredondo had not responded to requests from state law enforcement for two days related to the school shooting investigation.
Pete Arredondo, the embattled Uvalde school police chief who led the flawed response to last week's school shooting, told CNN exclusively Wednesday he is in touch daily with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) but declined to answer further questions about the massacre.
Peter Arredondo isn't responding to requests for a second interview, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Arredondo led the police response to the shooting.
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