Uvalde Parent Begins Camping Out In Front of Police Department Demanding Officers Are Fired

"I didn't fight before Uzi was gone, so that is one of my biggest regrets, so I have to continue to fight to make sure that this becomes a better place for my other children."

At 11:33 a.m. on Wednesday, Brett Cross began camping out in front of the Uvalde Police Department to demand police officers Javier Martinez, Louis Landry and Eduardo Canales be fired for their failures during a 2022 school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers.

Martinez, Landry and Canales were three of the first police officers to respond to the shooting. An independent investigation by Jesse Prado found that all three officers acted in “good faith” and they should be exonerated for any wrongdoing. The victims’ families were outraged over Prado’s report, which he presented last week, and they demanded that Uvalde city council reject the investigation.

Cross, whose 10-year-old son Uziyah Garcia was murdered in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary, told the city council that they had until Tuesday to formally reject Prado’s independent investigation. During Tuesday’s city council meeting, when Mayor Cody Smith said they needed more time, Cross told the city council that he was “done asking, done begging, done pleading,” and said he was going to take action.

“Enough is enough,” Cross said to the city council on Tuesday.

Smith did not immediately return a request for comment.