The former police chief of Uvalde schools and another former officer were indicted for their response to the 2022 mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to multiple reports on Thursday. 

A grand jury indicted former schools police Chief Pete Arredondo and former officer Adrian Gonzales on multiple counts of felony child endangerment, per reporting from the Uvalde Leader-News and the San Antonio Express-News. 

The indictments would make Arredondo and Gonzales the first officers to face criminal charges in one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Texas Department of Public Safety for comment. 

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A scathing report by Texas lawmakers that examined the police response described Gonzales as one of the first officers to enter the building after the shooting began.

The indictments come more than two years after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a fourth grade classroom, where he remained for over an hour before officers confronted and killed him. 

In total, nearly 400 law enforcement officers responded to Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022, some waiting in the hallway outside the classroom, even as the gunman could be heard firing an AR-15-style rifle inside.

Visitors from McAllen, Texas, left a sign at the town square memorial in Uvalde. It reads, “Dear children of the world, it’s not supposed to be this way.”  (Ashley Soriano/Fox News)

Arredondo lost his job three months later. Several officers involved were eventually fired, and separate investigations by the Department of Justice and state lawmakers faulted law enforcement with botching their response to the massacre. 

The DOJ released a 600-page report earlier this year that cataloged what it described as “cascading failures” in training, communication, leadership and technology problems that day. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A convicted felon was arrested after pistol-whipping his neighbor and being found in possession of 17 firearms. 

According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, the victim – whose identity has not been released – was riding his dirt bike in front of his residence in the 20100 block of Piedmont Drive in Apple Valley just before 8:45 p.m. on Thursday when he was flagged down by his neighbor. 

The neighbor, identified by deputies as 42-year-old Kenny Lattinville, allegedly pulled out a handgun and pistol-whipped the victim, who left his dirt bike in the roadway and ran back to his home to call 911. 

He sustained “a visible injury consistent with the assault,” SBSD said. 

Responding deputies quickly contacted Lattinville, who was said to be standing in his front yard with a rifle and a handgun yelling towards the victim’s residence, and were able to arrest him without any further incident. 

“A search warrant was authored for Lattinville’s residence…inside the residence, deputies located and seized 17 firearms,” law enforcement officials stated. 

Lattinville, a convicted felon, was booked into the High Desert Detention Center for assault with a firearm and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is being held in lieu of $140,000 bail. 

Anyone who may have information regarding the incident is asked to contact Victor Valley Sheriff’s Station Detective S. Bowman by calling 760-552-6800. 

To submit information anonymously, call 1-800-782-7463 or visit www.wetip.com  

All public schools in Oklahoma are now required to incorporate the Bible and Ten Commandments into their curricula for grades 5-10, primarily for historical context.

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters issued a memo Thursday informing superintendents across the state their districts are required to incorporate the Bible into lessons.

Walters said in the memo that his directive aligns with educational standards approved in May 2019.

The superintendent told Fox News Digital there is a lack of understanding about the country’s history and the influence the Bible has had since the birth of the U.S., which he blames on the radical left.

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“We’ve seen the radical leftists drive God out of schools, drive the Bible out of schools, and we have to make sure that our kids have an understanding of what made America great,” said Walters.

“Not teaching our kids about the faith of our founders and the influence that the Bible had in our history is just academic malpractice.”

He explained that, under his directive, instructors in every classroom across the state would have a copy of the Bible to teach from.

The teachers, Walters said, will teach the Bible from a historical context, particularly in terms of its role in American history and the influence it had on the country’s founders.

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Public school teachers in Oklahoma will be required to teach from the Bible to help understand the historical context of the country’s beginnings. (iStock)

For example, when students learn about topics such as the Mayflower Compact, which predates the U.S., they will look at quotes from pilgrims referencing the Bible.

Leaders during the Civil Rights Movement also made references to the Bible.

Walters said when Martin Luther King Jr. was in a Birmingham jail, he wrote a letter referencing Bible stories.

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A police mugshot of Martin Luther King Jr. after his arrest for protests in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, where he wrote a letter referencing Bible stories. (Gado/Getty Images)

“So, it is essential for a historical understanding of our country’s history that the Bible is included in the curriculum, and we will be requiring it,” Walters said.

Although Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill into law last week requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every classroom by 2025, Walters says Oklahoma is the first to require the Bible be used in all classrooms, effective immediately.

“We’re the first ones, and we’re very proud of that,” he said. “We believe in American values. We believe that the better our students understand American history and American exceptionalism, the better off our state will be and the country will be. So, we are very proud to teach that to our students.”

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High school students in Oklahoma will be taught history lessons about the Bible. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

For those who are not religious, Walters wanted to be clear that lessons that include the Bible are strictly for historical context.

He said it is undeniable that the Bible is a historical document.

“The left can be offended, that’s fine,” Walters said. “They can be offended all they want, but what they can’t do is rewrite history. That is our history. That is the history of this country.”

In his memo Thursday, Walters said the move to incorporate the Bible was not just an educational directive “but a crucial step in ensuring our students grasp the core values and historical context of our country.”

He also said the State Department of Education may supply teaching materials to ensure the message is delivered uniformly.

The new curriculum will go into effect for the 2024-25 school year, and superintendents across the state were told instructions for monitoring and reporting on the matter will be delivered in the future.