Exclusive: Uvalde school police chief told investigators why he didn't try to stop gunman:
‘There’s probably going to be some deceased in there, but we don’t need any more from out here’
Uvalde school police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo told investigators he was more concerned about saving students in other classrooms than trying to stop a gunman who had already shot children and teachers.
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“Once I realized that was going on, my first thought is that we need to vacate. We have him contained – and I know this is horrible and I know it’s [what] our training tells us to do but – we have him contained, there’s probably going to be some deceased in there, but we don’t need any more from out here,” Arredondo said.
His decision to treat the gunman as a barricaded subject and not confront him effectively left all the students and teachers in Classrooms 111 and 112 for dead. It was one of many times he did not follow the training and protocol for an active shooter.
Much more at Link - https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/us/uvalde-school-massacre-arredondo-interview/index.html
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A very tragic day I still feel for the families that lost a son or daughter. I do not envy the police chief for the situation he was in but clearly as a response to an active shooter in a school, more action should have been taken to help those children in those rooms.
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