The chairman of a special state House committee taking testimony on the Uvalde school shooting says it's uncertain whether city police officials would testify voluntarily to the panel.
Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, has said the Uvalde schools police chief — who he described as the incident commander — made the “wrong decision” to not order officers to breach the classroom more quickly to confront the gunman.didn’t consider himself the person in charge
and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response. Arredondo has declined repeated requests for comment to The Associated Press. Law enforcement officials have provided little or conflicting information since the May 24 shooting, sometimes withdrawing statements hours after making them. Officials have declined to offer details, citing ongoing investigation.with the lack of information.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is leading the investigation and has said some accounts were preliminary and may change as more witnesses are interviewed. DPS has begun referring questions about the investigation to the Uvalde-area district attorney, Christina Mitchell Busbee.to block records from being released — even to the victims’ families — once the case is closed. The law’s exception protects information from being released in crimes for which no one has been convicted.
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