Uvalde Police Department Sgt. Donald Page resigned a day after the police department announced that it had placed an unnamed officer on paid leave after learning that not all bodycam footage from the 2022 mass shooting was given to the state for investigation. Page, who joined the Uvalde Police Department in 2006, declined to answer the Uvalde Leader-News’ question on Wednesday about whether his resignation was related to the unnamed officer being put on leave last week.
The Uvalde Police Department did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. In a text message to HuffPost, Page said “no comment” when asked about his resignation. Page was one of the first officers on the scene the day a shooter killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022.
Nearly 400 police officers were at the school that day, and they waited more than 77 minutes to confront the shooter. An independent investigation commissioned by the Uvalde City Council found that Page did not commit any misconduct and had acted in “good faith.” “You knew that it was definitely an AR,” Page said in an interview with investigators after the school shooting, according to the Texas Tribune .
“There was no way of going in. ..
. We had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to him.” Last month, an Uvalde police officer told Uvalde Police Department Chief Homer Delgado that his bodycam footage w.