UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The commander at the scene of a school shooting in Texas was not informed of panicked 911 calls coming from inside the school building, a Texas state senator said Thursday.
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Sen. Roland Gutierrez said the pleas for help from people inside Robb Elementary as the shooting was taking place May 24 did not make their way to school district police Chief Pete Arredondo. The Democratic senator called it a “system failure” that calls were going to the city police but were not communicated to Arredondo.
Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said last week that police didn’t breach the classroom where the gunman was holed up faster because Arredondo believed the situation had morphed from an active shooting to a hostage situation.
Nineteen children and two teachers died in the attack at Robb Elementary School, the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade.
Remember that “911 surcharge money” (don’t call it a tax!) on phone bills which is supposed to go to the 911 centers to improve inter-system and inter-agency communications? Anyone want to bet what an audit would find?
uvalde police: “please, please, we are not cowards, we are just incompetent government workers”
This guy makes Scot Peterson (Parkland shooting) look like a hero.