(CNN) — Texas Ranger Christopher Ryan Kindell has been reinstated to his position after being removed from duty amid inquiries into the botched response to the Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde, according to a letter from Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Kindell was suspended in October 2022 and the department had moved to terminate him in January 2023.
“I have decided to alter my preliminary decision based upon a review of the completed Texas Ranger criminal investigation on the May 24, 2022 Robb Elementary School mass shooting, an internal review of the actions of Texas Department of Public Safety officers who responded to the attack, and subsequent to the review by the Uvalde Grand Jury,” McCraw wrote in the letter, dated August 2 and obtained by CNN on Monday.
McCraw’s letter notes that according to 38th Judicial District Attorney Christina Mitchell, “the Uvalde Grand Jury reviewed all law enforcement …