Questions raised about Uvalde County sheriff's role during Robb Elementary rampage.
Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco hugs Texas Governor Greg Abbott as they attend a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, May 25, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.For months since the May 24 school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, attention and blame have been focused on the chief of the tiny school district's police force.
Nolasco, who insists he was not the incident commander when an 18-year-old former student of Robb Elementary School killed 19 children and two of their teachers, has been on the radar of investigators from the start. He initially refused to cooperate with a special investigative committee empaneled by the Texas House of Representatives, agreeing to appear only when he was threatened with civil penalties after being summoned, the committee announced at the time.
"All I can say is I was not the incident commander that day," Nolasco told ABC News. "Honestly, I mean, there's just a lot of finger-pointing that's going on right now ... I think they want to point fingers to me and point fingers at me." In a June 2 interview with the Texas Rangers leading the investigation, Capt. Joel Betancourt of the Texas Department of Public Safety said he "initially understood that Sheriff Nolasco was the scene commander." That statement was included in two synopses of investigator interviews with Betancourt reviewed by ABC News.
Nolasco, a Republican, was elected sheriff in 2020 after nearly three decades in law enforcement. He first joined the Uvalde sheriff's department in 2005 and has done everything from 911 dispatch to emergency medical response to undercover narcotics operations. In a statement issued just before being fired from the school district in August, Arredondo's attorney also made it a point to remind the public that the school attack first began as a shooting at the Diaz Street home of gunman Salvador Ramos where Ramos shot his grandmother in the face. Nolasco personally responded to that scene.
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