Uvalde School District Police Chief Peter Arredondo is branded a ‘coward who failed children’ by his neighbor after he moved Texas shooting from an ‘active shooter’ situation to a ‘barricaded suspect’ while kids were still alive
He is now under police protection as Texas state investigators probe whether he had a police radio on him when he made the decision
But one cop on the scene of the shooting Tuesday has said that Arredondo is wrongly being made a scapegoat.
‘It’s a lie that Arrendondo told everyone to stand down,’ said the anonymous officer. ‘It’s a lie. And we’re all getting death threats. It’s a f*****g nightmare.’
The assertation comes after Texas Department of Public Safety head Steven McCraw slammed Arredondo for failing to engage 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, mistakenly believing the teen had finished his killing spree and was hiding out from cops.
But, McCraw said, students continued to make 911 calls while locked in the classroom with Ramos, as Arredondo and his men waited outside the room for more than an hour.
Eventually, Border Patrol agents who rushed to the scene after hearing the incident unfold on scanners, breached the locked classroom door, with one fatally shooting Ramos.