Exactly three months after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children and two teachers dead, the embattled police chief who oversaw its bungled response has been fired by the Uvalde school board.

Pete Arredondo, the top cop overseeing the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s force of six, was in charge of the nearly 400 local, state, and federal law enforcement officers who responded to reports of an active shooter at Robb Elementary School on May 24, but held off on confronting the gunman for some 77 minutes, according to an investigation by the Texas House of Representatives.

Arredondo’s termination “for good cause” was finalized at a Wednesday evening meeting held by the school board. The unanimous vote, which came after the board met in a closed session, followed vocal outrage by grieving parents who demanded Arredondo’s ouster.

The vote was met with a cheer from parents present, some of whom then quickly took up a chant: “We’re not done.

The void of leadership could have contributed to the loss of life as injured victims waited over an hour for help, and the attacker continued to sporadically fire his weapon,” it says, noting that the fiasco was not attributable to “malice or ill motives,” but rather, to “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making.

After much consideration, it is in the best interest of the community to step down as a member of the City Council for District 3 to minimize further distractions,” Arredondo said in a resignation letter to the City of Uvalde.

“The Mayor, the City Council, and the City Staff must continue to move forward to unite our community, once again.”

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