The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District on Monday released thousands of pages of documents and hours of police body-camera video related to the May 24 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School, complying with a Texas appeals-court order issued in July. The disclosure—nearly 12 gigabytes of files—follows a three-year legal fight by media outlets and victims’ families to obtain material the district and Uvalde County had withheld. The records detail how almost 400 local, state and federal officers waited about 70 to 77 minutes before confronting 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos, who killed 19 students and two teachers. Newly released footage captures frantic parents urging officers to act, while internal emails and training materials show that then-school police chief Pete Arredondo had completed an active-shooter course two months earlier that stressed immediate engagement with an attacker. Student files trace Ramos’s decline from a “remarkable” kindergarten pupil to a high-school dropout with persistent disciplinary problems. Separate sheriff’s reports show deputies were called to his home three months before the shooting after his mother said she was afraid of him. Arredondo and former district officer Adrian Gonzales face multiple counts of child endangerment for their roles in the response; both have pleaded not guilty, and trials are scheduled for October 2025. While the latest release closes one transparency battle, news organizations continue to seek investigative files from the Texas Department of Public Safety, which sent 91 troopers to the scene.
Body cam video from the Uvalde school shooting shows parents pleading with officers to act. Nearly 400 law enforcement waited over 70 minutes to respond. https://t.co/tiapumIyns
New records provide more details about campus safety concerns raised before the deadly 2022 Uvalde shooting and include some surviving teachers’ accounts that school leaders didn’t check on them after they were injured and traumatized. https://t.co/zJ1ZXTSyJi
“These are innocent children, sir. Please talk to me.” Newly released body camera footage shows the chaos in the police response to the Uvalde school shooting in 2022 — and how the school police chief tried to negotiate with the shooter. https://t.co/4cWW5DRXcR