Uvalde School Police Chief Sworn In as City Councilman as Investigators Try to Reach Him

Pete Arredondo, chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (L), speaks at a press conference while Superintendent Hal Harrell looks on, following a mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The police chief of the school district in Uvalde, Texas was sworn in as a city councilman on May 31 as investigators probing the police response to the recent elementary school mass shooting sought to interview him.

Pete Arredondo, the chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, won the election before the May 24 shooting to the Uvalde City Council.