The Latest Breaking News from Robb Elementary

Amid investigations, heartbreak and anger, students and teachers are returning to classes – though Robb elementary won’t reopen

Today, students in Uvalde return to classrooms for the first day of school, just 15 weeks after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.

Some parents and community members are calling for more school district employees to be fired and for the state to raise the minimum age for buying an assault rifle.

Arredondo "respectfully requests the Board immediately reinstate him, with all backpay and benefits"

The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday under mounting pressure in the grieving Texas town to punish officers over letting a gunman at Robb Elementary School remain in a fourth-grade classroom for more than an hour with an AR-15 style rifle as 19 children and two…

Families of the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary had been demanding Arredondo be fired since details became clear of the law enforcement failures that day.

Chief Pete Arredondo refused to attend the meeting where the school board voted to terminate his employment, citing concerns for his own safety.

Uvalde school officials have faced mounting pressure to fire Arredondo, who received much of the blame for the delay in confronting the shooter during the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary.

The meeting will happen exactly three months after Arredondo was among the first law enforcement officers to arrive at Robb Elementary, where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.