As a grand jury considers whether any of the nearly 400 law enforcement officers are criminally charged for their inaction during the Robb Elementary shooting in 2022, some families say they feel they've been let down and betrayed by elected officials.
ByTap for ABC13 Houston 24/7 Live StreamNearly two years after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Uvalde elementary school, investigations have offered strikingly different assessments of the botched law enforcement response, fueling frustrations and additional calls for transparency from victims' families.
"For the most part, we just feel like we've been let down," Jesse Rizo, an uncle to 9-year-old Jackie Cazares, who died during the May 2022 shooting, said. "You don't have one person in question as being part of this issue in Uvalde," Schildkraut said. "You have 380 people potentially being in question."
"There is simply no reason to keep the investigative file under wraps because of a grand jury that may or may not act," Laura Prather, an attorney representing the news organizations in the lawsuits, said. The Texas Rangers, the investigative arm of DPS, probed law enforcement officers' actions, including those of 91 of their colleagues in the department who responded to the shooting. A DPS spokesperson told the Tribune in January 2023 that the agency's initial investigation had been completed. A final report was later delivered to Mitchell so that she could determine whether to press charges. The report has not been publicly released.
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