On Monday evening, after an hour-and-a-half of closed-door deliberation, the school board confirmed their acceptance of Harrell's retirement and unanimously approved a motion to conduct a search for his replacement.
"My heart was broken on May 24th," he added. In a statement posted on his wife's Facebook account on Sunday, Harrell said the decision was "not made lightly and was made after much prayer and discernment." Harrell's impending retirement was announced on Friday. Nearly 400 law enforcement officers rushed to the scene, but "egregiously poor decision-making" resulted in allowing the 18-year-old shooter to remain active inside a classroom for more than 70 minutes before he was finally confronted and killed, according to a damning investigative report released by Texas lawmakers in July. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell - along with other school officials and local law enforcement - has faced intense scrutiny over the handling of the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School, one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. (UVALDE, Texas) - The superintendent of a school district in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 fourth-grade students and two teachers earlier this year, has announced his plans to retire. Emotions run high at Uvalde school board meeting amid superintendent's retirement
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