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Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said on Sunday that the city’s deputy police chief was on leave on the day of the shootings at Rob Elementary School.
According to McLaughlin, Lieutenant Mariano Pargas will determine if he is responsible for taking command after a shooter enters school on May 24 and kills 21 people, including 19 children. I took a leave of absence because of.
The announcement came after the release of a 77-page report criticizing the failure of heavily armed officers to act when shooters slaughtered students, as well as local governments in southern Texas towns. I did.
According to the report, 376 law enforcement officers gathered at the school. The overwhelming majority of respondents were federal and state law enforcement agencies. This included nearly 150 US Border Guard agents and 91 state police officers.
UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING’HALLWAY VIDEO’ RELEASE BLOCKED BY DA, TEXAS SAYS
“With the exception of the attackers, the Commission did not find any’villains’ in the course of the investigation,” the report said. “No one can think of us as malicious or malicious. Instead, we find systematic failure and terribly poor decision-making.”
The report states that many of the hundreds of law enforcement responders who rushed to school were better trained and equipped than school district police. The room is early.
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This report is the most complete explanation to date for the hesitant and unplanned response to the May 24 massacre, written by the Texas House of Representatives investigative commission and released to families on Sunday. ..
The Associated Press contributed to this report..