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Major news outlets sue Texas agency for withholding Uvalde shooting records
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More than a dozen major US news organizations are banding together to sue the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for failing to release public records related to the shooting at Robb elementary school in Uvalde t...
Uvalde shooting: elementary school principal reinstated after suspension
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The principal of the Texas elementary school where an intruder shot 19 students and two teachers to death in May is back at her job after a brief paid suspension, officials said. Mandy Gutierrez of Robb elementary sch...
Uvalde school district officials cut off paid leave for embattled police chief
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School district officials in Uvalde, Texas, have cut off payments to their police force’s embattled chief, who had been on administrative leave from his job but was still being compensated. The decision on Friday come...
‘Not good enough’: Uvalde victims’ families react to report on police failures
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Wearing a shirt bearing his granddaughter’s name and a button with her face, Vincent Salazar arrived at the Uvalde civic center around noon Sunday to learn what a Texas legislative committee had determined about the d...
How caretakers and officials missed red flags of gunman before Uvalde massacre
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Before shooting 21 people to death at Robb elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the killer had threatened suicide, menaced women, stockpiled guns and accessories and made a video of himself riding around while holding a dead ...
Uvalde surveillance video shows police lingering in school hallway
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Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting entering the building with a AR-15-style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms w...
Uvalde police missed several chances to stop school gunman, report reveals
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A newly released report found Uvalde police missed multiple opportunities to take down the gunman that killed 21 people at Robb elementary in May.The report, released by Texas State University’s Advanced Law Enforceme...
Uvalde school police chief quits city council amid fury over shooting response
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The Uvalde, Texas, school district police chief is resigning from his community’s city council amid criticism of the law enforcement response to the shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb elementary...
After Uvalde shooting, tech companies tout their solutions. But do they work?
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After the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas , an all-too-familiar question emerged: how do we prevent such horror from happening again? A handful of companies have said they have tech solutions th...
Why did they wait? Uvalde anger grows over bungled police response
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Ruben Ruiz, a school district police officer in Uvalde, Texas, was standing in a hallway outside the classroom where his wife taught fourth-graders a couple of days before summer break. His wife, Eva Mireles, had just...
Uvalde police chief placed on leave amid outrage over shooter inaction
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The police chief for the Texas elementary school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers has been placed on administrative leave amid outrage that officers did not intervene sooner to stop the shooter. Unde...
Uvalde shootings: police response an ‘abject failure’, Texas safety chief says
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The Texas public safety chief issued a blistering appraisal on Tuesday of the police response to the Uvalde shootings, calling it “an abject failure and antithetical to everything” known about how to respond to such c...
Uvalde shootings: police response an ‘abject failure’, Texas safety chief says
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The Texas public safety chief issued a blistering appraisal on Tuesday of the police response to the Uvalde shootings, calling it “an abject failure and antithetical to everything” known about how to respond to such c...
Two Uvalde officers had chance to shoot gunman, sheriff’s deputy says
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Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb elementary school before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff’s deputy told the New York Times. T...
Uvalde: 11-year-old survivor tells hearing she smeared herself with friend’s blood – video
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An 11-year-old survivor of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas testified before the House oversight committee on Wednesday, as lawmakers continued debate gun control legislation after a series of devastati...
Uvalde survivor, 11, tells House hearing she smeared herself with friend’s blood
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An 11-year-old survivor of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas testified before the House oversight committee on Wednesday, as lawmakers continued to try to reach a compromise on gun control legislation af...