The discharge is a part of a lawsuit filed by TEGNA Texas, which incorporates this station, and a number of other different media retailers.
KNIPPA, Texas — Faculty officers in Uvalde, Texas, on Monday launched textual content messages, personnel information and pupil information of the shooter from the 2022 capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty, ending a yearslong authorized battle over public entry to the fabric.
The information embody disciplinary paperwork for Salvador Ramos, the teenaged shooter and pupil at Uvalde Excessive Faculty. Ramos had habits points with hitting different children and utilizing foul language. He failed state checks and had a variety of absences and missed schoolwork.
The information embody emails between high faculty district officers and likewise textual content messages and emails to and from a minimum of two faculty cops who have been on the scene. The discharge additionally accommodates the personnel file of former Uvalde colleges police chief Pete Arredondo, who has been described because the on-scene commander of the regulation enforcement response.
The discharge included a handful of textual content exchanges between Arredondo and others on the district that have been despatched earlier than the capturing. At 9:04 a.m., the chief advised officer Adrian Gonzales to “go hang around on the park with the seniors till 11:30.” At 11:40 a.m. a textual content to Arredondo from a district secretary famous somebody reported listening to pictures exterior Robb Elementary.
“They went forward and locked themselves down,” the textual content to Arredondo learn. At 1:07 p.m. a textual content to Arredondo requested if any college students have been injured or taken to the hospital and requested if the district can carry the “safe standing” on the varsity. The shooter had been killed by regulation enforcement about quarter-hour earlier.
Within the days instantly following the capturing, a textual content thread together with Arredondo talks about press launch language, memorial funds, and a textual content that exhibits a photograph of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry and a message studying, “Sharing a secret… Handler known as me final night time to let me know Meghan Markle might be stopping in Uvalde right this moment.”
Why the paperwork have been launched
Media organizations, together with TEGNA Texas (WFAA in Dallas-Fort Value, KHOU in Houston, KVUE in Austin, KENS in San Antonio, KCEN in Waco-Temple-Killeen, KYTX in Tyler-Longview, KBMT in Beaumont-Port Arthur, KIII in Corpus Christi, KWES in Midland-Odessa, KIDY in San Angelo, and KXVA in Abilene) and the Related Press sued the district and county in 2022 for the discharge of their information associated to the mass capturing that killed 19 college students and two academics.
A Texas appeals court docket in July upheld a decrease court docket’s ruling that the information have to be launched.
The information should not the general public’s first glimpse inside one of many nation’s deadliest mass shootings and a sluggish regulation enforcement response that has been broadly condemned. Final yr, metropolis officers in Uvalde launched police physique cam movies and recordings of 911 calls.
Practically 400 officers waited greater than 70 minutes earlier than confronting the gunman in a classroom stuffed with lifeless and wounded kids and academics. A number of federal and state investigations into the response have laid naked cascading issues in regulation enforcement coaching, communication, management and expertise, and questioned whether or not officers prioritized their very own lives over these of kids and academics.
Two faculty district officers face legal fees for his or her actions that day. Former Uvalde colleges police chief Pete Arredondo and former officer Adrian Gonzales each face a number of counts of kid endangerment and abandonment. Each males have pleaded not responsible and are scheduled for trial later this yr.
They’re the one two responding officers to have been charged.
How households are responding
The households of victims and survivors are additionally processing what was discovered within the information launched by Uvalde CISD on Monday.
Brett Cross misplaced Uziyah Garcia within the Robb Elementary mass capturing in Might 2022. Uziyah is one among 21 individuals killed within the bloodbath and Cross stated shedding him has left an enormous influence.
“The day that Uziyah was killed, our world stopped. We have not been capable of transfer ahead. We have not been capable of do any of this stuff as a result of we do not know every little thing,” Cross stated.
Cross stated the most recent batch of paperwork, texts and emails being launched, this time by the Uvalde faculty district, is one other step in the direction of closure.
“You stated you are feeling it is time,” KHOU 11 Reporter Amanda Henderson stated.
“Yeah, it is, it has been time, it has been time for the previous three years,” Cross stated.
It is a related message from a July 2025 Uvalde CISD board assembly.
“I’m right here right this moment to demand the reality,” Jackie Cazares’s mom Gloria Cazares stated on the assembly. It was that very same night time the UCISD trustees voted unanimously to not enchantment a choose who dominated in favor of greater than a dozen media firms, together with KHOU 11’s dad or mum firm TEGNA, to launch their information associated to the bloodbath.
“We determined to maneuver ahead and stated that is the correct factor to do, you recognize, we gotta be clear with the group, with the households, and do what’s proper,” UCISD Faculty Board Trustee and uncle of Jackie Cazares, Jesse Rizo, stated.
Rizo stated he weighed the choice earlier than making it as each a trustee and uncle to Jackie Cazares who was additionally killed within the bloodbath.
What information have been launched?
The college district launched disciplinary and educational information for Salvador Ramos, the teenaged shooter.
It additionally made public personnel information and different information associated to Pete Arredondo, the previous Uvalde colleges police chief who was fired and indicted for his position within the police response.
Data from the county are anticipated to be launched later this week. They might embody incident and 911 experiences regarding Robb Elementary and different places; sheriff dispatch logs and radio site visitors; video footage; ballistics and proof logs; and experiences of regulation enforcement interactions with the shooter and his mom.
It is not but clear how a lot of this data has already been publicly launched.
Households of victims have additionally pushed for data
Households of the victims have lengthy sought accountability for the sluggish police response.
“There’s nothing in these information and people information that may damage any one among us any greater than the ache that we’ve already endured. As soon as launched, there might be questions. Transparency will come. There could also be some blame. Accountability will come,” Berlinda Arreola, grandmother of 10-year-old sufferer Amerie Jo Garza, advised the Uvalde faculty board earlier than the board voted to approve the information’ launch on July 21.
What authorized battle stays over the discharge of information?
The Texas Division of Public Security remains to be combating a separate lawsuit filed by media organizations for the discharge of that company’s information associated to the varsity capturing.
DPS has stated the discharge of its information could possibly be “harmful” as a result of it will make regulation enforcement susceptible by exposing details about how officers do their jobs and it might additionally complicate prosecutions within the case, in response to court docket information.
The lawsuit over DPS’s information stays pending with the fifteenth Court docket of Appeals in Texas.
Two officers set to face trial for response
Two of the responding officers face legal fees. Arredondo and former faculty officer Adrian Gonzales have pleaded not responsible to a number of fees of kid abandonment and endangerment. They’re set to face trial on Oct. 20.
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