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A shooting occurred in Uvalde, Texas on Thursday in Memorial Park, located in the city’s downtown, around 5:30 p.m. San Antonio-based KSAT reports that “authorities confirmed after 8:30 p.m. four suspects are now in custody.” The Uvalde Police Department issued a statement this evening confirming “two juveniles are being treated at San Antonio hospitals due to injuries sustained; their condition […]
Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo was fired in a unanimous vote on Wednesday night. The school board came to the choice during a closed session meeting in which 50-year-old Arredondo did not take part due to his disagreement with the decision-making and having received death threats, CNN reports. His lawyer George Hyde shared a […]
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 […]
A new report released Sunday by the Texas House investigative committee on the Uvalde shooting blamed various authorities for “systemic failures” during the massacre that occurred May 24 at Robb Elementary School. The New York Times reports the 77-page report described the “systematic failures and egregious poor decision making” on account of both state and federal law enforcement, as well as […]
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 […]
Two classmates who were killed in the Uvalde school shooting are being laid to rest side by side. Ten-year-olds Xavier Lopez and Annabell Rodriguez were laid to rest on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, less than three weeks after they were fatally shot in their Robb Elementary classroom. Their families told ABC News the classmates originally met when they were […]
A 9-year-old survivor of the Uvalde school shooting has been released from the hospital. The University Health System in San Antonio announced the discharge Saturday, less than two weeks after a gunman killed 19 children and two students at Robb Elementary school—marking the deadliest U.S. school shooting in about a decade. According to ABC News, 17 people […]
