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Posted: 2022-06-03T19:37:38Z | Updated: 2022-06-03T19:37:38Z

UVALDE, Texas (AP) The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded, a Texas state senator said Friday.

Sen. Roland Gutierrez told The Associated Press in a brief telephone interview that a Texas Department of Public Safety official told him school district police Chief Pete Arredondo was without a radio during the May 24 attack by a lone gunman that left 19 students and two teachers dead . Seventeen more people were injured .

Authorities have not said how other law enforcement officials were communicating with Arredondo on the scene. Arredondo heads the districts small department and was in charge of the multi-agency response to the shooting.

Arredondo has not responded to multiple interview requests from AP since the attack, including a telephone message left with the school district police Friday.

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