Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo was fired Wednesday by the Texas city’s school board.

His removal caps off three months of outrage over the botched law enforcement response to a deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.

One hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds passed from the time police entered the building May 24 until the gunman was killed, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw has said.

Arredondo did not attend the special school board meeting Wednesday that was called to address his employment. In a statement, his lawyer said Arredondo has faced death threats and did not believe the meeting was safe.....

A scathing report released last month by a Texas House committee faulted “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making” by law enforcement and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.

It says that under the district's active shooter plan, Arredondo would have been the incident commander, but he "did not assume his preassigned responsibility of incident command." Arredondo has said he did not consider himself to be the officer in charge.