Students fled and authorities helped others evacuate after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24. Hyde.Īside from the Texas Department of Public Safety, which did not respond to requests for comment for this article, Arredondo is the only other law enforcement official to publicly tell his account of the police response to the shooting.Īrredondo, 50, insists he took the steps he thought would best protect lives at his hometown school, one he had attended himself as a boy. He answered questions via a phone interview and in statements provided through his lawyer, George E. In his first extended comments since the May 24 massacre, the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, Arredondo gave The Texas Tribune an account of what he did inside the school during the attack. Finally, 77 minutes after the massacre began, officers were able to unlock the door and fatally shoot the gunman. “Each time I tried a key I was just praying,” Arredondo said. When keys arrived, he tried dozens of them, but one by one they failed to work. He called for tactical gear, a sniper and keys to get inside, holding back from the doors for 40 minutes to avoid provoking sprays of gunfire. The chief of police for the Uvalde school district spent more than an hour in the hallway of Robb Elementary School. The ship is now owned by the Maritime Museum of San Diego, and also appeared as the HMS Providence in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.“The only thing that was important to me at this time was to save as many teachers and children as possible,” Arredondo said. The HMS Surprise, which in reality started out life as a French corvette named Unité and ended up classified as a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate despite having 36 guns, is actually a modified 1970 replica of the HMS Rose, a 20-gun sixth-rate frigate built in 1757.
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Indeed, in an early draft of the script the movie was set in 1813 and the French Acheron was instead an American ship called USS Norfolk, but it was thought this would not go down well with US audiences.
The story is a heavily fictionalised version of several real historical tales: Jack Aubrey is loosely based on exploits of the "Sea Wolf," Captain (later Admiral) Thomas Cochrane, while the CGI Acheron is created from digital scans of the USS Constitution, which she is also based on in terms of technology. With the French privateer warship endangering British whaling vessels, the crew of HMS Surprise must find some way to defeat her. Sent to hunt French shipping, they soon happen upon an advanced French frigate, the Acheron, which totally outclasses the much smaller Surprise. Set in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars, the movie tells the tale of the HMS Surprise and her crew, under captain Jack Aubrey ( Russell Crowe).
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It is based on the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by English author Patrick O'Brian: while it takes the name of the first novel, it incorporates elements from 13 of the 20 books in the series. Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 historical fiction movie directed by Australian director Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Chris Larkin and Edward Woodall.
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