Former Uvalde school police officials charged after school shooting response
The charges come more than two years after a teenage gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.
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The charges come more than two years after a teenage gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.
There are new details Friday in the 10-count indictment against former Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo. Janet Shamlian spoke with the family members of two of the students who were killed the Uvalde shooting and has their reaction.
A new indictment accuses former Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo of failing to identify the active shooting and stop it. Arredondo turned himself in Thursday night on 10 felony counts of abandoning or endangering a child in the 2022 school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. CBS News' Janet Shamlian has the details.
Pete Arredondo, the former school district police chief in Uvalde, Texas, was released from custody after posting a $10,000 bond, according to the county sheriff. Arredondo was arrested Thursday and charged with 10 counts of child endangerment over his response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. CBS News national correspondent Janet Shamlian has more.
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The wrongful death lawsuits come just two days after the same group of 19 families reached a $2 million settlement with the city of Uvalde over the Robb Elementary School massacre.
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Family members of Uvalde school shooting victims also said they're filing lawsuits against dozens of Texas Department of Public Safety officers and Uvalde's school district.
Family members of Uvalde school shooting victims announced a $2 million settlement with the city on Wednesday. The group is also filing a $500 million lawsuit against officers at the Texas Department of Public Safety and Uvalde's school district. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano has the details.
Nearly two years after 19 students and two teachers were killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the families of the victims reached a $2 million settlement with the city. Victims' families on Wednesday also announced a $500 million federal lawsuit against 92 officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety who were part of the failed response by law enforcement on the day of the shooting, along with the school's former principal and the district's former police chief. Lilia Luciano has the latest.
The families of the Robb Elementary School shooting victims reached a $2 million settlement with Uvalde, Texas. The families also announced a lawsuit against dozens of Department of Public Safety officers and the school district for their response to the 2022 rampage. CBS News' Lilia Luciano reports.
The family members of Uvalde school shooting victims announced Wednesday a $2 million settlement with the Texas city. Law enforcement agencies who responded to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School have come under scrutiny for their actions during the attack. Josh Koskoff, a lawyer representing the victims' families, spoke at a press conference.
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Following a city-commissioned report that absolves police officers of blame for the 2022 Uvalde school shooting at Robb Elementary, the police chief steps down.
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A recently-hired police officer has been fired by the Uvalde school district, after body camera footage appeared to show her telling fellow officers at Robb Elementary the day of the massacre that “If my son had been in there, I would not have been outside.”
A Texas prosecutor has convened a grand jury to investigate the Uvalde school shooting that killed 21 people, multiple media outlets reported.
The Uvalde County district attorney has convened a grand jury to consider whether criminal charges should be brought in connection with the 2022 Uvalde school massacre which killed 19 elementary students and two teachers. It comes one day after the Justice Department released a nearly 600-page report that found numerous mistakes in the law enforcement response.
The Justice Department's report points to "cascading failures" by the police chief and other law enforcement responding to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 4, 2022.
A Justice Department report released Thursday detailed an "unimaginable failure" in the response to the 2022 Uvalde school shooting. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports.
The Department of Justice has released a report Thursday on the law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Attorney General Merrick Garland said a series of failures contributed to breakdowns during all phases of the response. Felipe Rodriguez, a former NYPD detective sergeant, joins CBS News with insight on law enforcement critical response training, and CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports from Uvalde, Texas.
In the report, much of the blame was placed on former police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, Pete Arredondo, who was terminated in the wake of the shooting.
Family members of the Robb Elementary School shooting victims reacted to a Department of Justice review of the law enforcement response to the 2022 massacre in Uvalde, Texas. The DOJ report identified a series of failures that led to students and their teachers being trapped in a classroom with the gunman while police were outside.
The law enforcement response to the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in 2002 was a failure, the Justice Department said Thursday in a blistering new report. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano has more from Uvalde.
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