During a special meeting on Thursday, Austin-area investigator Jesse Prado presented his Independent Expert Investigative Report into the Uvalde Police Department’s response to the Robb Elementary shooting on May 24, 2022.
Jesse Prado, an Austin-based investigator, right, attends a special city council meeting to share his findings in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, March 7, 2024. Almost two years after the deadly school shooting in Uvalde that left 19 children and two teachers dead, the city council met to discuss the results of an independent investigation it requested into the response by local police officers. Then-mayor Don McLaughlin announced the investigation in July 2022.
Prado began his investigation in July 2022, when he said he had a lot of difficulty getting information about what the officers did during the response. He said District Attorney Christina Mitchell did not allow him to get copies of information. He said he had to get with the Texas Department of Public Safety and U.S. Border Patrol and used the DOJ’s report to corroborate a timeline.
Uvalde CISD PD management knew about the shooting, Prado said. His report findings showed there were problems all day long with a lack of communications because Arredondo was making phone calls but not radioing to other officers. Prado said the police department hadn’t practiced breaching since before the COVID-19 pandemic. He said it should be practiced every quarter, at least.
Prado said Martinez made the right decision by not shooting into the classroom, violating policy and even the law. Prado recommended that Lt. Mariano Pargas, had he remained on the force, should be exonerated. Pargas was acting chief during the shooting. He knew who was going to be in charge when he got to the school and thought Arredondo would be the incident commander, Prado said.Pargas delegated Officer Juan Martinez to start a command post, Prado said. Martinez had been on vacation but went to help.
Prado said two months prior to the Robb shooting, there was an active shooter class for instructors. They were all in the hallway, responding at Robb during the shooting. Prado said they were being shot at eight feet away from the door, and it’s possible the shooter was waiting on one side of the room to shoot anyone who would enter.The independent investigator said any reasonable person would think that the ISD officers would have a key to get into classrooms.
Defending his delay in confronting the gunman, Arredondo claimed he was trying dozens of keys to get into the classroom. A Department of Justice report stated UPD Acting Police Chief Mariano Pargas or then-UCISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo should have assumed command. Since Arredondo was acting as an initial responder, the report stated that Pargas should have assumed command.
Arredondo treated the situation as a “barricaded subject” rather than an active shooter call, federal officials said. As more officers arrived on the scene, the lack of an incident commander led to the officers’ confusion about what was to happen.
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