school-shooting
More than $300,000 has been raised for the family of a custodian who was killed in this week’s school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. Mike Hill, 61, was one of six victims in the shooting at the Covenant School in the Green Hills area of the city on Monday. “Mike was the beloved father of eight […]
A reporter covering the Nashville school shooting on Monday opened up on the air about being a school shooting survivor, saying the latest instance of American gun violence is something that “hits very close to home” for her. In a clip that went viral on Monday, Joylyn Bukovac—a reporter for Nashville-based outlet WSMV 4—reflected on […]
A suspect is dead following a school shooting in Nashville. While details on the shooting remained scarce at the time of this writing, it occurred Monday morning at the Covenant School, a private Christian school in the Green Hills area of the city that serves children ranging in age from pre-school to 6th grade. Residents […]
Nicole Joseph, associate dean for the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, issued an apology last week to its students for relying on the AI tool ChatGPT to write a statement in the wake of the mass shooting at Michigan State University. “While we believe in the message of inclusivity […]
A Florida man has been charged for dumping dead animals at a memorial site dedicated to Parkland shooting victims. According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, 29-year-old Robert Mondragon is facing two counts of removing or disfiguring a tomb or monument, five counts of violation of probation for battery and indecent exposure, as well as a single count […]
The Uvalde City Council has claimed that “every single officer” from the city who was involved in the widely criticized response to the Robb Elementary School shooting will be investigated. This claim, as first spotted by CNN, was made by councilman Ernest “Chip” King III during a lengthy meeting held on Tuesday. Among the items […]
Content warning: The footage above may be considered graphic by some viewers. As criticism continues to mount over the law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, attention has turned to newly released footage showing the shooter entering the building and more of the widely criticized actions of responding officers. The footage […]
An Uvalde, Texas police officer who was situated by Robb Elementary School reportedly requested permission to shoot the gunman before he entered the school. Per the Texas Tribune, the officer asked a supervisor for the go-ahead to shoot 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos before the latter got inside the school building. The supervisor did not respond to the request, or responded too […]
Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo was placed on administrative leave Wednesday, per ABC News. News of Arredondo being placed on leave comes nearly one month after the tragic massacre at Robb Elementary School in which 19 children and two teachers were killed. Dr. Hal Harrell, superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, said he […]
A Texas law enforcement official has criticized the police response to the Uvalde school shooting, which he said they could have stopped within three minutes. As NPR reports, Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw described the law enforcement response to the massacre as an “abject failure.” He suggested the police, who took approximately an hour […]
