Indictment: Pete Arredondo's missteps were 'criminal negligence'

By bungling the police response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, Pedro 'Pete' Arredondo, then chief of the Uvalde school district police, intentionally endangered the lives of 10 fourth graders who survived the massacre, according to an indictment.

Remembering the Robb Elementary victims Arredondo 'failed to identify the incident as an active shooter incident, failed to respond as trained ... and instead called for SWAT, thereby delaying the response by law enforcement officers to an active shooter who was hunting and shooting a child or children in Room 112 at Robb Elementary School,' the indictment states. The shooter killed 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022.

Arredondo an exile in his hometown Also indicted by the grand jury was Adrian Gonzales, a school police officer at the time of the shooting. He is charged with 29 counts of child endangerment — one count for each of the 19 children killed and one for each of the 10 injured survivors. The indictment against Gonzales had not been made public as of Friday morning. Arredondo surrendered to authorities on Thursday and was booked into the Uvalde County Jail. He was released on bond hours later.

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