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The families of students killed in the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School have filed a new $500 million federal lawsuit seeking damages against responding officers and the school district, saying more should have been done to save lives. NBC’s Morgan Chesky reports for TODAY.

The former school district police chief in Uvalde, Texas, who oversaw the response to a 2022 elementary school shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children, is in custody on a child endangerment charge, the Uvalde jail said Thursday. Pete Arredondo, 52, was brought in by law enforcement officers and is accused of abandoning and endangering a child, the jail said. The charge was first reported by the San Antonio Express-News.

The officers had been taught ​​erroneously that active shooters — or gunmen federal authorities define as someone “actively” killing or trying to kill others — “can easily morph into a hostage crisis,” the report says. More than 70 minutes passed between the time that officers first arrived at the school and when the gunman was confronted and killed. In addition to the 19 students, two teachers were fatally shot and 17 others were injured.

 

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