Acting Uvalde police chief Lt.
Mariano Pargas has been placed on leave after a preliminary report on the school shooting by the Texas House investigative committee found 'multiple systemic failures' and poor leadership.
Lead investigator and Republican state Rep.
Dustin Burrows argued Robb Elementary was 'not adequately prepared for the risk of a school shooter' and warned the same is true of many schools across the U.S.
On Sunday, Lt. Mariano Pargas, who was acting Uvalde Police Department chief the day of the shooting, was placed on leave.
Robb Elementary School Police Chief Peter Arredondo was also at the scene, standing outside the classroom, trying to negotiate with gunman Salvador Ramos.
The committee claimed 'multiple systemic failures' witnessed in Uvalde are found 'across the entire state and country' and the systems in place 'are something that we can and must improve.'
The investigative committee released its 77-page investigative report Sunday, marking the most exhaustive attempt so far to determine why it took more than an hour for police to confront and kill the 18-year-old gunman at Robb Elementary School on May 24.
The report blasted 'system failures and egregious poor decision making' by nearly all those in power during the attack and slammed law enforcement for 'failing to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety'.
Lt.
Mariano Pargas (left), who was acting Uvalde police chief of May 24, has been placed on administrative leave. He was placed on leave following the release of the preliminary report (right) by the Texas House investigative committee probing the elementary school shooting
Burrows - joined by committee members Rep. Joe Moody and former Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman during a Sunday night press conference - addressed the failures.
'That day several officers in the hallway or in that building, knew or should have known there was dying in that classroom,' he told the audience.
'And they should've done more, acted with urgency. Tried the door handles, tried to go in through the windows, try to distract him, try to do something to address the situation.'
He argued law enforcement leadership both inside and outside the school highlighted how the community was not prepared for the massacre.
'In hindsight, we can we can say that Robb Elementary was not adequately prepared for the risk of a school shooter,' Burrows stated, noting that schools across the nation are believed the face the same challenges: 'This is a wider problem.'
'We will all look and say 'well that's the way it was in Uvalde, it's different here.' Well let me say, the people of Uvalde before this - they felt that.
That's the false sense of security I worry about,' he said. 'Some of the same systems we found here that failed that day are across the entire state and country.'
'I do not want to say because of one thing or person here it could not happen elsewhere.
I think that's a disservice and not respectful thing to do.'
Lead investigator and Republican state Rep.
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