Desperate 911 calls from inside the Texas school the place 21 folks have been killed final week went to metropolis police and weren’t shared with the campus legislation enforcement chief, who opted in opposition to a right away confrontation, a neighborhood lawmaker mentioned Thursday.
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez cited the Commission on State Emergency Communications for his revelation, which may additional complicate a probe into the police response to the May 24 capturing at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
“I was told specifically,” Gutierrez mentioned. “My question specifically was was the (school district) police officer … on duty (told) about the calls? I was specifically told no.”
Every week in the past Tuesday, 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos wounded his grandmother earlier than taking off together with her truck and crashing it right into a ditch close to Robb Elementary, police mentioned.
He then entered the school and opened fireplace, killing 19 kids and two lecturers earlier than a federal police tactical squad arrived an hour later and fatally shot him.
The speedy legislation enforcement response to the assault has been known as into query, with the give attention to Pete Arredondo, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s police chief.
Policing consultants across the nation have been important of Arredondo, who headed operations on the scene, for ordering officers to deal with the matter as a barricade scenario.
But Gutierrez mentioned Arredondo was not given all the required information when the police chief opted in opposition to a right away confrontation with the gunman.
“I have no doubts Arredondo was the so-called incident commander. I have no doubts about that. I’m telling you that he did not have privy” to these 911 calls, Gutierrez mentioned.
The lawmaker insisted, “I’m not covering him,” however blamed a systemic failure that hampered police communication at a vital second.
“Last week we were told the 911 calls were going through the incident commander, that simply is not the case,” Gutierrez mentioned. “System failure.”
Reps for the Uvalde police and Commission on State Emergency Communications couldn’t be instantly reached for touch upon Thursday.
