After an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 elementary school pupils and two teachers in a mass shooting last month, Uvalde School District authorities stated on Thursday that they want to hire extra police officers to patrol school campuses next year.
Following the shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, Superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell indicated that the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District is assessing its security processes and preparing a list of “measures we can take to increase security on all of our campuses.”
He stated that one method they would accomplish this would be to ’employ additional’ police officers to be deployed to each school for the coming school year.
Harrell also mentioned that the district is now collaborating with an “outside agency” to help with safety and security, but he refused to comment on personnel matters as reporters grilled him about his trust in the school district’s police.
As reporters and community people questioned whether pupils should feel safe in Uvalde, Texas schools next year, he walked away.
After Salvador Ramos, 18, was able to enter Robb Elementary School through an open door and kill 19 pupils and two teachers as cops stood by for more than an hour, the superintendent held the first of his weekly updates concerning the district’s security procedures on Thursday.
The police response to the shooting is still being investigated, and Harrell refused to comment on the inquiry involving Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who told cops to keep back after changing the status of the incident from a “active shooter” to a “barricaded suspect” incident.