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Texas state trooper fired over his response to Uvalde shooting

10/22/2022 6:15:00 AM

Sgt Juan Maldonado is the third officer to be fired over the botched law enforcement response to the shooting

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The Texas Department of Public Safety has fired a trooper who responded to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde , which claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers. Sgt Juan Maldonado is the third officer to be fired over the botched law enforcement response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, which claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers.The fired trooper was identified as Sgt. Juan Maldonado, CBS News learned Friday. Maldonado is the third officer to be fired over the botched law enforcement response to the shooting. According to theTexas Tribune, police body camera footage showed that Maldonado was on scene at the school within four minutes of the shooting, but did not enter the school. The Tribune reports that an Uvalde Police Department SWAT commander who had suffered a graze wound from a bullet fired by the gunman, came out of a school door, and told Maldonado,"Dude, we got to get in there." Read more:
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AielloTV reports. AielloTV Condolences 💐 AielloTV RIP 😭🙏🏻 Texas state trooper who responded to Uvalde shooting fired amid investigations into police responseThe Department of Public Safety fired Sgt. Juan Maldonado amid ongoing investigations into law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school shooting . Maldonado is the latest law enforcement official — and first state police officer — to be fired. A whole lot of them should be terminated.. for cause !! DPS Sargent Juan Maldonado fired for failure to act; while best friend Eva Mireles bled out on the floor inside her classroom at Robb Elementary on May 24th. 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Alex Hamzy shot and killed responding to fake 911 callHappening today: A funeral will be held for the Bristol police officers shot and killed in a line of duty ambush last week. mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, which claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers.Uvalde that left 21 dead.02:18 CHICAGO (CBS)  -- Illinois State Police claim expressway shootings are down significantly since they ramped up efforts to secure the roads in the past year.03:51 The loss Lt. The fired trooper was identified as Sgt. Juan Maldonado, CBS News learned Friday. RELATED: Uvalde CISD suspends entire district police department Maldonado was the highest-ranking state trooper to initially respond to the May 24 shooting. Maldonado is the third officer to be fired over the botched law enforcement response to the shooting. Illinois State Police Sgt. According to the Texas Tribune , police body camera footage showed that Maldonado was on scene at the school within four minutes of the shooting, but did not enter the school. MORE: Uvalde schools fire ex-Texas trooper who was at shooting After the gunman fired more than 100 rounds, Uvalde Police Sgt. The Tribune reports that an Uvalde Police Department SWAT commander who had suffered a graze wound from a bullet fired by the gunman, came out of a school door, and told Maldonado,"Dude, we got to get in there.  "I can see the love they had for their job, to go out and reach the community, to bring joy, hope, peace and comfort in their life. " Maldonado responded,"DPS is sending people," the Tribune reports. With blood on his hands after a bullet fired by the gunman grazed his ear, he encountered Maldonado. Mayerbock said. DPS last month that at least five of its troopers were under investigation for their response to the shooting. This all comes after the entire police department for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) as it faces multiple investigations. Ruiz’s wife was a teacher at the school. That suspension also came just one day after the firing of Uvalde school police officer Crimson Elizondo, a former DPS trooper who was also on scene at the Uvalde shooting. In 2008, Mayerbock was a student athlete studying psychology at Northern Illinois University. Elizondo had responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary as a Texas state trooper. LATEST UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING COVERAGE Eleven minutes later, Ruiz told officers that his wife had called him and said she had been shot. He paid tribute to Officer Alec Iurato, the cop who took down the suspect with a single shot. Elizondo resigned from DPS after the attack, but was then subsequently hired by the Uvalde school district as a police officer. According to CNN, Elizondo could be heard in body camera footage from the day of the shooting telling other officers at the scene:"If my son had been in there, I would not have been outside. According to law enforcement doctrine, active shootings require that the first action by officers, no matter their rank, should be to immediately "stop the killing. I promise you that." Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief at the time of the shooting — who was in charge of the law enforcement response to the attack —  by the school board in August. According to an extensive report into the shooting released in July by a special committee convened by Texas lawmakers, a total of 376 law enforcement officers responded to the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary.  The final speaker was DeMonte's widow Laura DeMonte, who is pregnant with their third child. However, while the gunman was barricaded inside a classroom, surveillance video showed a group of those officers waiting in a hallway. According to the report, from the time the first officers arrived on the scene, it took them 73 minutes to breach the classroom, confront and fatally shoot the suspect.  School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas .