Uvalde schools fire ex-Texas state trooper who responded to mass shooting after outrage from parents
CBSN
Following new outrage by Uvalde parents, school officials abruptly fired a former Texas state trooper who was on the scene of the Robb Elementary School massacre and then hired by the school district after the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers.
The firing Thursday came after CNN reported that Crimson Elizondo, who resigned from the Texas Department of Public Safety after the May 24 attack, was hired by the Uvalde school district following one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.
Elizondo was among more than 90 state troopers — and nearly 400 law enforcement officers in all — who rushed to Robb Elementary during the massacre but waited more than an hour to confront a gunman with an AR-15-style rifle shooting inside a fourth-grade classroom.
