Principal of Robb Elementary put on leave two months after Uvalde shooting

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The principal of Robb Elementary in Uvalde, the place an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 college students and two lecturers two months in the past, was positioned on leave with pay on Monday, based on the principal’s lawyer.

Ricardo Cedillo, a San Antonio-based lawyer for Principal Mandy Gutierrez, didn’t say why his consumer was positioned on leave by Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell. He stated Gutierrez “will be responding to questions posed by Superintendent Harrell before the end of the week.”

According to an interim report by a state House committee that investigated the May 24 shooting, Gutierrez and others on the college knew the lock for Room 111, the place the gunman entered and killed most of his victims, wasn’t working correctly. The instructor in that classroom, Arnulfo Reyes, reported to highschool officers that his classroom door didn’t all the time lock correctly however nobody ready a piece order to have it mounted, the report says.

Reyes was shot and wounded within the assault.

The report additionally says Gutierrez by no means tried to make use of the varsity’s intercom system to warn lecturers and college students {that a} gunman had entered the varsity. She informed the committee that she used an app referred to as Raptor to provoke a lockdown, “but she had difficulty making the alert because of a bad wifi signal.”

Reyes informed the committee he didn’t recall receiving an alert in regards to the gunman.

The House report detailed quite a few safety failures by college employees that allowed the gunman to shortly enter the varsity. It additionally faulted a whole lot of regulation enforcement officers who arrived on the college however waited greater than an hour to confront the gunman, who was lastly shot to demise by a Border Patrol tactical unit.

Gutierrez is the third native official and the primary college administrator to be suspended because the state House report was launched on July 17. Uvalde police Lt. Mariano Pargas, who was the town’s appearing police chief the day of the bloodbath, was placed on leave the day of the report’s release by the town supervisor.

Pete Arredondo, the chief of the varsity district’s police division who has borne a lot of the blame for the delay in confronting the shooter, is on unpaid leave; a scheduled school board meeting to determine whether or not to fireside him was postponed final weekend.

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