Waiting for keys, unable to break down doors: Uvalde schools police chief defends delay in confronting gunman

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo on a dirt road on the outskirts of town on Wednesday. One of the first to respond to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May

24, he says: “The only thing that was important to me at this time was to save as many teachers and children as possible.” Credit: Evan L’Roy for The Texas Tribune
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