• Chief Pete Arredondo (second from right) at a news conference in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26. Arredondo, the commander at the scene of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, arrived without a police radio, and decided in the first minutes on an approach that would delay a confrontation. | CHRISTOPHER LEE / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Chief Pete Arredondo (second from right) at a news conference in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26. Arredondo, the commander at the scene of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, arrived without a police radio, and decided in the first minutes on an approach that would delay a confrontation. | CHRISTOPHER LEE / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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UVALDE, Texas – Two minutes after a gunman burst through an unlocked door at Robb Elementary School and began shooting inside a pair of connected classrooms, Pete Arredondo arrived outside, one of the first police officers to reach the scene.

The gunman could still be heard firing repeatedly, and Arredondo, as leader of Uvalde’s small school district police force, took charge.

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