‘It was the wrong decision’: Head of Texas Rangers said police chief acted too slowly in responding to Uvalde shooter
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the incident commander — identified by the San Antonio Express-News as Uvalde CISD police chief Pete Arredondo — believed the situation was no longer an active shooter, but that of a barricaded suspect.
“With the benefit of hindsight, of course it was not the right decision,” McCraw said. “It was the wrong decision.”
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