Steve McCraw previously said he'd resign if one of his officers had a hand in the botched police response.
— who was among the first to respond to the school shooting was fired. The agency did not say why he was let go.
At the Public Safety Commission meeting Thursday, family members of victims of the mass shooting called for McCraw's resignation over DPS troopers' responses to the shooting, saying they had been found culpable in the failed response.McCraw said Thursday he would only resign if "DPS as an institution" were found to have failed Uvalde, not an individual trooper.
376 law enforcement officers from federal and state agencies responded to the shooting, but they lacked clear leadership and communication and an urgency to stop the gunman, a Texas House of Representatives investigationThe shooter was inside the school for 74 minutes before law enforcement shot and killed him, according to a timeline previously provided by McCraw.
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