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The police chief of Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman in 2022 invaded a school and killed 19 children and two teachers, said on Tuesday that he was resigning.
The resignation, effective April 6, of police chief Daniel Rodriguez, who was not in Uvalde the day of the shooting at Robb Elementary school, comes just days after the Uvalde City Council released an independent investigation into the shooting it commissioned that exonerated responding officers, US News reports.
Rodriguez said in a written statement that he was not forced to resign, saying that "I believe it is time for me to embrace a new chapter in my career."
Mayor Cody Smith said in an emailed statement that Uvalde was grateful for Rodriguez's service. He said that assistant chief of police Homer Delgado would be named as interim chief as a search for a full-time replacement begins.