A report nearly two years in the making left several stunned and angry.

We keep getting kicked while we're already down. It's just blow after blow.

In July 2022, an independent investigation into the Uvaldi Police Department's actions the day of the May 2022 Massacre was ordered. The investigation faced several delays and went well past its original 60 to 90 day deadline. Now, 21 months after 21 people were killed by a gunman at Rob Elementary, independent investigator, Jessie Prado, had this What's to say about the response of those city officers.

Javier Martinez, Sergeant Eduardo Canales, Sergeant Donald P. Detective Louis Landry. Did you find that he violated policy?

He did not violate policy.

Every UPD officer is recommended to be exonerated by Prado in a nearly 200-page investigation. This includes acting police chief, the day of the Massacre, former UPD Lieutenant Mariano Vargas. Vargas left the department in November 2022. Families of the Evaldi victims and survivors speaking their minds on the results.

We're going to stand here and we're going to keep fighting for our own because nobody else is going to do it.

I want you to look at this child because this child survived. This child was shot, and he sat in there for 77 minutes.

After public comment finished, counsel then went into executive session, at which time we tried to get answers from Prado about exactly why his investigation came to the conclusions it did. Here's what he had to say.

Sir, with all due respect, you have nothing to say to the family. The survivors were here. The family was here.

Ma'am, I'm sure there'll be a different time, and I can come back and speak to them. Why not talk about? I'm done with the report, but they still have some questions that they need to ask.

City officials confirm the report costs at least $100,000. Xavier Lopez's mother, Felicia Martinez, had this to say.

That's my son's blood money.

Reporting in Uvaldi, I'm Amanda Henderson.

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