Court appearance set in former Uvalde CISD chief’s lawsuit seeking Border Patrol testimony<\/a><\/p>\nThe hearing stems from a federal lawsuit Arredondo filed against CBP after the agency declined to make several Border Patrol agents available as witnesses.<\/p>\n
According to Arredondo’s legal team, testimony from 19 Border Patrol employees who responded to the May 24, 2022, shooting is necessary to address allegations that Arredondo delayed officers from confronting the gunman during the 77-minute law enforcement response.<\/p>\n
CBP has argued the requested testimony is unnecessary because much of the information is available through other sources and said some testimony could reveal confidential law enforcement techniques and procedures.<\/p>\n
Arredondo is charged with 10 counts of abandoning or endangering a child in connection with the response to the shooting, in which 19 students and two teachers were killed. His criminal trial is tentatively scheduled to begin on Feb. 22, 2027.<\/p>\n
The Uvalde County District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the case, has also sought testimony from Border Patrol agents, arguing it is important to both the prosecution and the defense.<\/p>\n
More than 370 law enforcement officers responded to Robb Elementary that day, including 188 CBP personnel. Border Patrol tactical agents ultimately confronted and killed the gunman after officers waited more than an hour before entering the classroom.<\/p>\n
Arredondo’s attorney said Tuesday’s federal court hearing was postponed because of flooding. A new hearing date has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEL RIO, Texas – A federal court hearing involving former Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-373203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}