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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.

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.

Pete Arredondo defended the police response to the massacre in a 17-page letter that also lashed out at state officials

The board dismissed Arredondo in a unanimous vote three months after the shooting at Robb Elementary School.

The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom.

The meeting comes less than two weeks before the new school year begins in Uvalde.

Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo did not appear at the meeting that could decide if he is fired, but his lawyers did present a 17 page document.

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…

Chief Pete Arredondo is alleged to have made several critical mistakes during a May 24 massacre that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead.

A blistering 17-page letter issued by his attorney, George Hyde, cited security concerns and accused the district of denying Arredondo the right to carry a weapon.