UVALDE, Texas – Uvalde County officials have released new documents and videos relating to the Robb Elementary School shooting.
This comes just hours after the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District released its own records, in accordance with a three-year extended legal battle between various media outlets.
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The release includes bodycam footage from the shooting, as well as several law enforcement reports from before and after the massacre took place.
The release includes several hours of video from body-worn cameras, showing the perspectives of officers responding to the tragic scene.
The files also include over 1,500 pages of documents, including text messages, police reports, emails, and additional information relating to the investigation.
Uvalde County releases additional bodycam video from Robb Elementary
The videos provide more perspective on the response to the scene, but also the organization, or lack thereof, between responding agencies.
The response had been criticised for its general lack of organization and communication, as some agents are seen at times clumsily donning their protective equipment, or searching for the classroom keys.
In one of the videos released by Uvalde County, former UCISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo can be heard attempting to make contact with the shooter inside the classroom.
“This is Officer Arredondo. Sir, can you please put your firearm down?” He then keeps asking the shooter. “We don’t want anyone else hurt, sir.”
He can be heard moments later saying, “Sir, can you hear me in there? Please put your firearm down, sir.”
Pete Arredondo, as well as former officer Adrian Gonzales, have been charged with 29 counts of child endangerment in connection with their alleged inaction during the shooting, and the delayed law enforcement response that has drawn criticism from parents, the media, law enforcement experts, as well as from state officials.
The responders, who had recently completed training just months before the shooting, have been criticised for their response. That training has since been retired.
The strategy outlined in that course was to isolate the shooter, distract them, then neutralize them. The Department of Justice called this guidance problematic.
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Texas Department of Public Safety has yet to release its own data from the investigation, with the case continuing to be fought in court.
Video could also be seen of first responders tending to the shooter’s grandmother, who had been wounded before the shooter arrived at Robb Elementary.
Information on the shooter, as well as additional information on both the law enforcement and the school district’s response, was released on Aug. 11.
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We’re updating this article with documents, audio, and video as we review them.