Uvalde Schools Chief Wants Federal Agent Testimony at His Trial

Uvalde school district’s former police chief is asking a Texas judge to make 19 employees of the US Customs and Border Protection available to testify at his criminal trial in connection to law enforcement’s response in the 2022 deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School.

Pete Arredondo, facing 10 counts of endangering a child, said the Border Patrol wrongly denied his request to make the agents participate as witnesses in his defense last month.

Their testimony is necessary, his lawyers say, to show the federal agents knew there were children alive inside two classrooms when they entered one of them and ...