UVALDE, Texas — (UVALDE, Texas) -- Uvalde, Texas, school district officials announced Monday that they have hired two new school district police officers, marking the first move to rebuild the district's police force -- five months after the entire force was suspended amid scrutiny over the police response to the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School.
"It's a pleasure to introduce our two new police officers," Interim Superintendent Gary Patterson said during a regular school board meeting.
Nineteen students and two of their teachers were killed on May 24 at Robb Elementary School. The police response that day is the subject of a series of reviews and examinations and has been widely criticized for being slow and ineffective. All police officers who responded that day are being investigated by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which is leading the criminal probe into the shooting that ended when a federal tactical unit killed the shooter as they tried to take him into custody.
"Our attorneys are going to have to work that out whether that's in the board's best interest to have this released or not," Patterson said during the meeting. The superintendent said a separate administrative audit of the events of May 24 is not being done despite an initial announcement that one would take place. He said the board last September asked the then-superintendent, Hal Harrell, to present options for organizations that could conduct such a review of administrative practices that could have prevented the shooting or perhaps reduced the human toll of the rampage.
"DPS is sweeping it under the rug," said pastor Daniel Myers of the Texas Department of Public Safety, which is leading the criminal investigation."Now you're sweeping it under the rug." Patterson offered new information on Ramos, who was chronically absent in the years before he attacked Robb Elementary. Patterson said the district met with Ramos' family several times, sent letters to his home, and made efforts to have him finish his coursework at Crossroads Academy, a Uvalde school for at-risk students looking to earn their high school diplomas. Eventually, those efforts were met with contempt from Ramos, Patterson said.
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