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LULAC President Domingo Garcia gifted checks to the families who have faced financial hardship since the shooting.

Several security upgrades have been made to the campuses at Robb Elementary as the new school year nears.

Several security upgrades have been made to the campuses at Robb Elementary as the new school year nears.

The Power to B Donates $2,820 to three charities

Lt. Mariano Pargas was the acting police chief on the day of the shooting. Uvalde's mayor said they're investigating if he should have taken command of the scene.

Uvalde Lt. Mariano Pargas has been placed on administrative leave after a after Texas House probe into the Robb Elementary shooting cited systemic failures and poor leadership.

Uvalde city officials tried to get state officials to go along with a narrative painting the response as heroic for saving the lives of others.

25 minutes since police first entered the building. more than 12 minutes later we get our first glimpse of chief arradondo in the hallway of robb elementary. you can hear him pleading with the gunman to give up, but seemingly unaware that children may still be inside the classroom. >> let me know if theres any kids in there or anything? this could be peaceful. would you tell me your name, anything i inside to know, please? >> reporter: moments later a critical piece of the puzzle from the camera...

Release this information. but he feels that in fairness to the family and fairness to this investigation that he needed to be released. and the other thing we should note for viewer thats we did not publish this, we did not air this video until we knew that family members had been made aware that this video existed and that the mayor said that he would be releasing it. so we took a lot of that into consideration of course. this video takes people inside the halls of that school. it shows the pol...

We have it contained. hes going to be on the building on the west side of the property. careful with the windows facing east. >> reporter: minutes later coronado tells dispatch what he believes is happening, that the gunman is in one of the schools offices, not a classroom. >> subject in the school on the west side of the building. hes contained -- we got multiple officers inside the building at this time. we believe hes barricaded in one of the offices. >> reporter: but as the minutes continue ...