Being “outgunned” does not appear to be the case. pic.twitter.com/EEvwlAdaeE — Gun Facts (@gunfacts) March 22, 2023 Uvalde police who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting told investigators they were scared of the shooter’s…
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By Lee Williams My heart sinks every time I see breaking-news graphics announce another school shooting. It’s like a gut-punch…the lost lives, the suffering of the wounded, the horrors the first responders must encounter, and…
If, like most of America, you’ve moved on and haven’t been paying attention to the continued fallout from the manifold failures at Robb Elementary School that made the Uvalde school shooting far worse than it…
By Acacia Coronado and Paul J. Weber, AP Even though Uvalde’s school police chief is now gone, Mario Jimenez doesn’t feel any safer about sending his 10-year-old son back to class for the first time…
By Jake Bleiberg and Acacia Coronado, AP After the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May, Jesse Rizo was worried about his old friend, police chief Pete Arredondo. Blame for the botched police response…
By Lindsay Whitehurst, AP A total of 376 officers converged on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — more than the entire police force in a midsize American city like Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Tempe, Arizona. But…
Other than the attacker, the Committee did not find any “villains” in the course of its investigation. There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives. Instead, we found systemic failures…
[Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin] said he agreed the video “needed to be released,” but he complained about the Statesman’s edits to the footage and said the victims families should’ve been the first to see the…
Earlier today, a report indicated that a Texas House committee would release hallway video of the Uvalde shooting police response on Sunday after showing it to the families of victims and survivors. However, the Austin…
By Jake Bleiberg, AP The Uvalde school district’s police chief was put on leave Wednesday following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two…