Uvalde lies along the U.S. 90 corridor, a favorite route of drug smugglers and human traffickers. The school superintendent says it's not pretty.
. The then-chief of the school district police, Pedro"Pete" Arredondo was widely condemned — and ultimately fired — for failing to act promptly to storm the classroom where the shooter was holed up with his victims, some of whom were wounded but alive. Arredondo was the incident commander, and nearly 400 officers from local, state and federal agencies were at the scene. Yet more than an hour elapsed before a Border Patrol-led team breached the classroom and killed the gunman.
"I’m not going to say anything bad about the mom because it appears that we had a parent in distress," he said. He added that the officer was"there to prevent exactly what the parent wanted to do" — enter a school without making an appointment or signing in and showing ID. Traffickers transporting migrants and drugs from the border towns of Del Rio and Eagle Pass use U.S. 90 and U.S. 83, two highways that intersect near Uvalde.
Sometimes, those pursuits extend all the way to Uvalde, and when the smugglers realize they're not going to get away, they ditch the vehicle and try to escape on foot. That's called a bailout.How often do bailouts happen in Uvalde?
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