{"id":1503135,"date":"2022-06-04T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503135"},"modified":"2022-06-04T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T11:50:29","slug":"report-uvalde-schools-district-police-chief-had-no-radio-at-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-uvalde-schools-district-police-chief-had-no-radio-at-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Uvalde Schools District Police Chief Had No Radio at Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-uvalde-schools-district-police-chief-had-no-radio-at-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503135&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The cop in charge during <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/27\/a-timeline-of-911-calls-during-the-texas-school-shooting\/\">the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre<\/a> arrived without a police radio and immediately made the call to \u201cfall back\u201d rather than confront the gunman, a new report said.<\/p>\n<p>Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arredondo was one of the first people on the scene after 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos stormed into Robb Elementary School with an AR-15-style assault rifle last Tuesday \u2014 but police communication was chaotic from the start, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/03\/us\/uvalde-police-response.html\">New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Post had previously reported state investigators were<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/28\/peter-arredondo-questioned-if-he-had-police-radio-during-school-shooting\/\"> looking into whether the embattled chief had a radio<\/a> when he took charge, explaining why he was apparently unaware of 911 calls from kids inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>When two officers were grazed by bullets as they pursued Ramos, Arredondo made the call to drop back and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/02\/uvalde-negotiator-tried-calling-texas-shooter-salvador-ramos-mayor\/\">call in a negotiator<\/a> because he thought the gunman was \u201ccontained,\u201d the Times reported, citing sources. That move contradicts active shooter protocols that say cops should advance on a gunman as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo had to use a cellphone to call a police land line to request a radio and backup, saying \u201cwe need more firepower and we need the building surrounded,\u201d according to the Times\u2019 description. The negotiator wasn\u2019t able to reach Ramos on the phone, Mayor Don McLaughlin said in a Wednesday interview with Telemundo San Antonio and the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/robb-elementary-texas-active-shooter-09_copy-1.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Arredondo reportedly arrived without a police radio at Robb Elementary School, where 19 children were shot dead.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Facebook \/ Joe Paul Ortega<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arredondo and local cops are facing snowballing criticism for their response to the shooting, which left 19 kids and two teachers dead, with questions about whether lives could have been saved if police had acted sooner to kill Ramos and get the wounded medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were ordered not to breach the door, even as terrified kids who were locked in with the gunman <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/27\/kids-stuck-with-texas-school-shooter-called-911-as-cops-waited\/\">called 911 pleading for help<\/a>. A state lawmaker revealed Thursday that Arredondo was not aware of the 911 calls as he made the decision to fall back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignright\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tKeep up with today&#8217;s most important news\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tStay up on the very latest with Evening Update.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to die,\u201d 10-year-old Khloie Torres told a dispatcher in one call, saying there were \u201ca lot of bodies\u201d inside her classroom, the Times said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy teacher is dead, my teacher is dead, please send help, send help for my teacher, she is shot but still alive,\u201d she said, according to the report. It was 12:10 p.m., nearly 40 minutes after the start of the carnage, the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>By then, the student had witnessed her teacher, Irma Garcia, struggle to lock the door to the classroom as the approaching gunman fired off shots, the newspaper reported. She finally got the right key, but it was too late and the gunman opened fire on the teacher and children, the Times said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll die,\u201d he said to the terrified children, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/03\/us\/uvalde-police-response.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Times<\/a>. One child allegedly was hit and yelled, \u201cI\u2019m shot,\u201d before Ramos went up to the child and shot him a second, fatal time. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ramos went into the school at a little past 11:30 a.m. but wasn\u2019t fatally shot until 12:50 p.m. \u2014 when a tactical unit disobeyed orders and unlocked the classroom door with a janitor\u2019s key, the Times report revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The officers in the unit gathered in the hallway outside the classroom \u2014 where they found  the chain of command in shambles, the Times said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one entity or individual seemed to have control of the scene,\u201d one person told the newspaper. \u201cIt was chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/salvador-ramos-uvalde-school-shooter-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/salvador-ramos-uvalde-school-shooter-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Salvadpr Ramos crashed his grandmother&#039;s truck before taking up arms to go on a rampage at Robb Elementary School.\" class=\"wp-image-22526756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/salvador-ramos-uvalde-school-shooter-2-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/salvador-ramos-uvalde-school-shooter-2-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/salvador-ramos-uvalde-school-shooter-2-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Salvador Ramos crashed his grandmother\u2019s truck before going on a rampage at Robb Elementary School.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Elsa G Ruiz\/Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, the frustrated group advanced on the classroom \u2014 even as one heard a command in his earpiece saying \u201cdo not breach,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo, who is chief of a department of six officers, ended up in charge of a complex response that ultimately included more than 140 officers and 14 agencies, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The response is being <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/29\/doj-to-probe-controversial-police-response-to-texas-school-massacre\/\">probed by the US Department of Justice<\/a> and the Texas state Legislature as the chief has largely stayed out of public view even as he was sworn in as an elected councilman in Uvalde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cop in charge during the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre arrived without a police radio and immediately made the call to \u201cfall back\u201d rather than confront the gunman,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1897363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/03\/uvalde-police-chief-pete-arredondo-had-no-radio-at-texas-shooting-report\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}