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Uvalde school shooting: Former police chief indicted on ten counts of child endangerment over response to mass killing

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Former student Salvador Ramos killed 19 children - all between nine and 11 years old - and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Texas on 24 May 2022. Officers, including former chief Pedro Arredondo, waited 77 minutes to confront the 18-year-old.

A former police chief has been charged over the response to the Uvalde school shooting in 2022. The Uvalde County sheriff's office said Pedro 'Pete' Arredondo has been booked and released from jail after a grand jury indicted him on 10 counts of child endangerment on Thursday. He was the chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police department when a former student carried out a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas.

Read more:After failings laid bare, what will US do about gun laws?Social media users knew Ramos 'was a monster' A US Department of Justice report released this January found officers made 'critical failures' in treating Ramos as a 'barricaded subject' and leaving 33 students in the classrooms with him.

 

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