Hyde.Īside from the Texas Department of Public Safety, which did not respond to requests for comment for this article, Arredondo is the only other law enforcement official to publicly tell his account of the police response to the shooting.Īrredondo, 50, insists he took the steps he thought would best protect lives at his hometown school, one he had attended himself as a boy. Students fled and authorities helped others evacuate after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24. “My mind was to get there as fast as possible, eliminate any threats, and protect the students and staff,” Arredondo said. He noted that some 500 students from the school were safely evacuated during the crisis.Īrredondo’s decisions - like those of other law enforcement agencies that responded to the massacre that left 21 dead - are under intense scrutiny as federal and state officials try to decide what went wrong and what might be learned. Whether the inability of police to quickly enter the classroom prevented the 21 victims - 19 students and two educators - from getting life-saving care is not known, and may never be. There’s evidence, including the fact that a teacher died while being transported to the hospital, that suggests taking down the shooter faster might have made a difference.
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