AUSTIN, Texas (NEWSnet/AP) — The Uvalde police chief who was on vacation during the Robb Elementary School shooting submitted his resignation Tuesday.

Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez was vacationing in Arizona when a teenage gunman entered a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde with an AR-style rifle on May 24, 2022. 

In his resignation statement sent via email by the Uvalde Police Department, Rodriguez said it was time to embrace a new chapter in his career.

The announcement came hours before the Uvalde City Council was expected to reject a report clearing officers of wrongdoing during the shooting in 2022 that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

The police department has faced backlash for failing to properly respond to the active teenage shooter, left in the school for more than hour.

The resignation is effective April 6.

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