Multiple charges have been filed with a grand jury investigating the Uvalde school shooting nearly two years after the Uvalde school shooting killed 19 children and two teachers because heavily armed investigators were reluctant to confront the lone gunman. Law enforcement officers were ordered to appear in court.
by American Politicians and KVUE-TVa summons for an in-person hearing has been issued and the case is scheduled to begin next week in Uvalde County Court.
Officials from multiple agencies, including the Texas Department of Public Safety, are expected to be called before the 12-member commission in a process that could last several months, local media reported.
If convicted, the hearing could lead to criminal charges against the officers for failing to stop the gunman in the May 2022 school massacre.
Ubalde school shooting: 1 year later
Law enforcement personnel light a candle in front of Robb Elementary School on May 25, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Jae C.Hong/File)
A photo of the victims of the school shooting at the former Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2023. (Wu Xiaoling/Xinhua News Agency, via Getty Images/File)
Grand jurors are also expected to consider a trove of evidence that could reveal minute by minute what happened that Tuesday afternoon.
The American-Statesman and KVUE-TV cited three unidentified sources who confirmed the subpoenas were sent but declined to provide an exact number or identify who received them.
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Police previously said a total of 376 law enforcement officers rushed to the school after receiving reports of an active shooter.
A child flees through a window to safety during the Robb Elementary School shooting, where a gunman killed 19 children and two adults during a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. Tachi. (Pete Luna/Uvalderrieder-News/Handout/File via Reuters)
The issuance of subpoenas for some of the law enforcement officers involved accelerates a 21-month investigation into what the Justice Department called a “cascading series of failures” in law enforcement’s response to the massacre. It shows.
At a press conference in January 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland said, “If law enforcement had followed generally accepted practice during mass shootings by going immediately after the shooter and restraining him, lives would have been saved.” , people would have survived.”
A Texas House of Representatives investigation committee report credited law enforcement’s response to “systemic failures and grossly poor decision-making.”
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Hundreds of law enforcement officers were at the scene for 70 minutes before a team entered a fourth-grade classroom and, armed with an AR-15-style rifle, fired more than 140 shots inside the 18-year-old’s shooting, according to reports. He reportedly confronted the perpetrator. school.
Since the shooting, body camera video, school surveillance footage and witness statements have revealed a slow response by law enforcement.
A woman cries as she visits a memorial to the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/File)
Students arrive at Uvalde Elementary School, currently protected by fencing and Texas State Police, on their first day in Uvalde, Sept. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay/File)
Five Texas police officers have been fired or resigned since the shooting.
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Uvalde’s school police chief at the time of the attack was fired in August 2022, and the city’s acting police chief resigned shortly afterward.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Department of Public Safety did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
