A hard fall: Pete Arredondo, fired Uvalde school police chief, is exile in hometown after Robb Elementary tragedy
— to DPS, local city police and other law enforcement agencies, the school district and, of course, the shooter. It described the tragedy as a cascade of errors, the result of a “systemic failure.” But Arredondo remained the focal point of public ire throughout the summer.
The district’s social media announcement drew warm greetings from well-wisher Gary Greenhaw saying, “Congratulations, big guy! They could not have picked a better person than Pete.” One of the first officers to enter the school building, Arredondo has insisted he was not the incident commander that day, though his own department’s guidelines for just such a situation required him to play that role. Arredondo himself wrote those guidelines.
“I knew him,” City Councilman Ernest “Chip” King III said. When asked what Arredondo was like, he replied, “I prefer not to comment, but he was a nice guy.” Uvalde is indeed a small world. She is running against incumbent Commissioner Mariano Pargas, a Uvalde police officer who is currently suspended from the force pending an investigation into his response that day.
His next job was in Webb County, working as a jailer in 2011 and the following year before being promoted to assistant chief of the sheriff’s office. But he didn’t last long as Sheriff Martin Cuellar’s No. 2. Cuellar demoted him in 2014 to commander. People who knew him say he was friendly. As Uvalde district’s top police officer, he mixed with teachers, administrators, parents and their children every school day.
“I’m very excited, I am ready to hit the ground running, ” he said. “I have plenty of ideas, and I definitely have plenty of drive.”At meeting after meeting, whether it was the City Council or the Uvalde school board, the families of victims, their friends and other supporters lined up to demand that the chief be held accountable.
Terry Bowen, 86, of Del Rio, said most people “think he was afraid.” But Bowen wasn’t so sure himself, explaining that he hadn’t heard Arredondo’s side of the story.
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