- Roland Gutierrez said Pete Arredondo’s story on The mass shooting in Uvalda contradicted the reports of the traffic police.
- Arredondo told reporters he didn’t know he was in command at the time of the shooting.
- However, the Texas DPS stated that Arredondo made in call don’t resist the shooter.
Texas state senator Roland Gutierrez said the retelling of Uvalde High School Police Chief Pete Arredondo of the mass shooting at Robb’s elementary school was in objection to statements by the Department of Texas of Public safety.
“His directly in contrast with what DPS said, so now you have these two competing narratives, neither of which makes sense,” Gutierrez said on Saturday. on CNN.
24 May 18-year-old shooter killed 19 children and two teachers and injured 17 others. The shooter barricaded himself in the classroom while Arredondo and 19 other officers over hour of waiting in the corridor outside.
Arredondo, who serves as chief of police for Uwalde Unified Independent School District disappeared from public eye after careful examination of The reaction of the police during the mass shooting.
In an interview published Thursday, Arredondo broke his silence and told the Texas Tribune he didn’t think he in accusation during the mass shooting and that he did not have a walkie-talkie on him to communicate with other officers at the scene.
However, Texas security officials said that Arredondo made in call to treat shooter as “barricaded subject”, not “active shooter.”
DPS also previously said that Arredondo is not cooperating with its investigation into the incident.
During the shooting parents who waited outside reportedly pleaded with officers to let them into the school to save them children but they were handcuffed by the police.
One parent, who rescued two of her children, told the Wall Street Journal that the police “did nothing” while the shooter was at the school.
Gutierrez spoke frankly about the tragedy. events in Uvalde and told reporters during a press conference that “we have everything failedand that “everyone was to blame” for mass shooting.
