Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo and his attorney granted an exclusive interview to The Texas Tribune to detail his version of what happened inside Robb Elementary School on May 24, when a shooter killed 21 people.
Students fled and authorities helped others evacuate after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24.Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language.granted an exclusive interview to The Texas Tribune
Arredondo, who is currently in hiding, has been publicly criticized for his role leading the law enforcement response to the school shooting becauseHere areArredondo has taken the brunt of the criticism for the slow response because he has been publicly labeled the incident commander. “I didn’t issue any orders,” Arredondo said. “I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door.”
“Once he became engaged, intimately involved on the front line of this case, he is one of those that is in the best position to continue to resolve the incident at that time,” Hyde said. “So while it’s easy to identify him as the incident commander because of that NIMS process, in practicality, you see here he was not in the capacity to be able to run this entire organization.
But that decision also meant that for the rest of the ordeal, he was not in radio contact with the scores of other officers from at least five agencies who swarmed the scene.When Arredondo got into the school, he remembers the gunman firing a burst of shots from inside the classroom.Arredondo described the classroom door as reinforced with a hefty steel jamb, designed to keep an attacker on the outside from forcing their way in.
“It’s not that someone said stand down,” Hyde said. “It was ‘Right now, we can’t get in until we get the tools. So we’re going to do what we can do to save lives.’ And what was that? It was to evacuate the students and the parents and the teachers out of the rooms.”
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