The officer who was leading the Uvalde, Texas, police department during the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers has stepped down.
The Uvalde, Texas, officer who was leading the city’s police department during its hesitant response to the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers has stepped down, a city spokeswoman said.
The city placed Pargas, who was running the department during the shooting because the chief, Daniel Rodriguez, was out of town, on administrative leave in July following a damning report from lawmakers , saying he made “terrible decisions” as the on-scene commander not to confront the gunman sooner. Arredondo was fired in August but has said he didn’t consider himself the person in charge and assumed someone else had taken control of the police response that eventually swelled to nearly 400 officers.Uvalde school leaders have pulled the embattled campus police force off the job four months amid criticism of law enforcement’s response to the Robb Elementary School massacre.
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