Chief Daniel Rodriguez 'felt helpless,' left his golf companions and began trying to get home. The details are in a new investigator's report.
Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez was playing golf with friends in Phoenix, Ariz., on the morning of May 24, 2022, when his phone rang. It was his civilian administrative assistant, John Guerra, back in Uvalde. An active shooter was on the loose at Robb Elementary School. Guerra said he could hear gunshots. “I cautioned John to be careful and stay out of the way of law enforcement’s duties,” according to a log Rodriguez kept of his phone communications that day.
What Texas officials got wrong about the Uvalde school shooting It was 9:43 a.m. in Phoenix, two hours earlier than in Texas, and the news would not get any better. At 10:11 a.m., the department’s public information officer, Jessica Zamora, called and “informed me that she anticipated there will be several victims,” Rodriguez wrote in the log. Eva Mireles, a beloved teacher and the wife of police officer Ruben Ruiz, had been critically injured, Zamora said. Mireles died soon afterward.
Remembering the victims of the Robb Elementary School massacre Rodriguez had had no breakfast that morning, only coffee. He “felt helpless and began to try and figure out how to get out of Phoenix,” he recalled months later. He left his two golf companions, climbed into a golf cart and began trying to find a way home as quickly as possible. He would not get there until it was all over, until 19 fourth-graders and two teachers lay dead.
Disgraced Uvalde school police chief is an exile in his hometown Rodriguez, in contrast, was largely spared the storm of recrimination. After all, he wasn’t there, so how could he be blamed? Rodriguez has said very little publicly about where he was and what he did on the day of the massacre. But a recent report by Jesse Prado, a retired Austin police detective hired by the city to assess the performance of the police department on May 24, 2022, sheds some light on the matter.
Read consultant Jesse Prado’s report on the Uvalde school shooting A minute later, Guerra told him “the shooter was inside the school building,” and that Pargas “had requested markers, boards and water for the command post” he had been ordered to set up. No command post ever was established, contributing to the chaos. At 10:35 a.m., the police chief in Eagle Pass, a border town 60 miles southwest of Uvalde, called Rodriguez to say he was sending officers to assist. At 10: 59 a.m.
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