Tulsa, Oklahoma Mayor G.T. Bynum said Wednesday, June 1, that Tulsa police "did not hesitate" in response to the mass shooting at a medical building at the St. Francis Hospital. Bynum didn't directly mention Uvalde, but his comment comes while Uvalde CISD police and the Uvalde Police Department are being investigated for their response to the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School.
The shooting in Tulsa occurred Wednesday afternoon when a gunman used an assault-style rifle to kill four people on the second floor of a medical office on the St. Francis Hospital campus, where an orthopedic clinic is located. The gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It was only eight days after the shooting in Uvalde.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety said on Friday, May 27 that Uvalde CISD police Chief Pete Arredondo was the incident commander at the Robb Elementary shooting. The gunman was inside the school for an hour before reportedly being killed by U.S. Border Patrol BORTAC agents.
Arredondo reportedly made the call that the scene was no longer an active shooter situation, believing no more children were at risk, despite multiple 9-1-1 calls coming from students inside the classroom with the shooter.
Since then, DPS and Texas Rangers are now investigating the shooting, while the Department of Justice looks into how local law enforcement handled the shooting. DPS officials have reportedly said that Arredondo and the Uvalde school police were no longer cooperating with the investigation, a claim that Arredondo disputed on Tuesday, May 31.
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