Former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo and another former officer are facing charges of child endangerment for their response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in 2022.
Arredondo was reportedly in custody at the Uvalde County jail. These are the first criminal charges against law enforcement officers in connection with the shooting.
The former chief of the Uvalde school district police and a former officer have been indicted on charges of child endangerment for their roles in the bungled police response to the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School.
A Uvalde County grand jury indicted then-Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo and then-officer Adrian Gonzales on charges of abandoning/endangering a child, a state jail felony.
Nineteen fourth-graders and two teachers were killed during the May 24, 2022, incident, the deadliest…
