Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell told the newspaper San Antonio Express-News K Grand jury to review evidence related to Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022 In which 19 children and two teachers died. However, he did not reveal what the grand jury will focus on, according to the newspaper.
The composition of the grand jury was first reported by the newspaper Uvalde Leader-News.
Relatives made fresh demands after the heartbreaking report
Families of children and teachers killed in the attack They renewed their demand for criminal charges After a scathing Justice Department report released Thursday again exposed numerous police failures during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in US history.
“I am very Surprised no one ended up in jail” said Velma Lisa Duran, whose sister Irma Garcia was one of two teachers killed in the shooting on May 24, 2022. “It’s kind of a slap in the face that what we get is a review… We deserve justice.”
Publication of a report of about 600 pages, About 20 months after shooting, leaves a criminal investigation by Uvalde County prosecutors as one of the last incomplete reviews by authorities into the Robb Elementary School attack. Nineteen students and two teachers died in two fourth-grade classrooms, while heavily armed police officers waited in the hallway for more than an hour before entering to confront the gunman.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland called the police response “a failure that should not have happened.”
Uvalde’s agents were “effective” in suppressing the attacker during the shooting, according to the prosecutor: “It was a failure”.
But the report is deliberately silent on the question still burning in the minds of many victims’ families: Will the person responsible for the failures be charged with a crime?
President Joe Biden said Thursday that he had not yet read the full findings. “But I don’t know if there is any criminal liability,” he said.
What happened to the agents who participated in the operation?
From the shooting, at least Five officers, including two from the Texas Department of Public Safety, have lost their jobs and the on-scene commander, then-school district police chief Pete Arredondo. But no one has been charged in a criminal investigation led by the Texas Rangers. The Justice Department report said the FBI assisted the Rangers but was not conducting its own investigation.
The Rangers, part of the Texas DPS, had more than that 90 officers at the scene of the shooting presented their preliminary findings in early 2023. Mitchell initially said he hoped to take the case to a grand jury late last year. years but he pushed back that timeline in December and said Thursday that he would need time to review the Justice Department’s massive report.
“I am a district attorney working with a small office,” Mitchell said in an email Thursday. “I will take some time to review this report. I hope it has been informative to the community.”
The pace of the criminal investigation has long frustrated victims’ families, with Uvalde’s former Republican mayor and a Democratic state senator representing the small South Texas city calling for the police chief to be fired. State of Texas.
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