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Mike Sheppard was a jail warden for the West Texas Detention Center in Sierra Blanca — a privately owned detention facility that used to contract with the federal government to detain migrants. Louisiana-based LaSalle Corrections confirmed that he no longer worked with the company.

The Texas Department of Public Safety had 91 officers responding to the shooting at Robb Elementary School — the second highest number of officers on scene.

Gov. Greg Abbott said the request for additional resources came from the school district superintendent. The announcement comes the same day a state district judge denied a lawmaker’s request for information about law enforcement’s response to the shooting.

State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, who represents Uvalde, told The Texas Newsroom he thinks the decision to allow witnesses to testify in private was “just another lack of transparency.”

Texas of Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said a commander on the scene at the elementary school in Uvalde chose not to engage the shooter because it was believed children were no longer at risk.

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