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Uvalde school board decides against disciplinary action for police chief whose orders delayed a tactical response to shooting
Pete Arredondo is under fire for reportedly ordering police not to enter a classroom where a gunman…
Hannah Getahun
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One of Greg Abbott's big stopgap measures following the Texas school massacre? Ordering schools to check their doors every week.
While Abbott's letter to the Texas Education Agency called for more efforts to keep schools safe, i…
Cheryl Teh
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Texas Gov. Abbott gave 2 different speeches about gun control at the same time with 2 different messages. One was in Uvalde, the other was at the NRA convention in Houston.
In Uvalde, Gov. Abbott said legislation is "on the table" to address gun violence, while in a pre-r…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Cousin of Uvalde gunman says he was asking around for details of elementary school a week before the attack
The gunman is said to have asked his relative, a third-grader, about attending Robb Elementary Scho…
Joshua Zitser
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Records show 70% of school shootings since 1999 have been carried out by people under 18: report
The suspect in this week's assault on a Texas elementary school purchased two AR-15-style assault r…
Matthew Loh
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During his White House speech, Matthew McConaughey displayed the shoes of a girl killed in the Texas school shooting green high-tops that were used to identify her body
"Maite wore green high-top Converse with a heart she had hand-drawn on the right toe because they r…
Cheryl Teh
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Robb Elementary School employees say they received so many emergency alerts for human traffickers that they didn't take a safety alert for the shooter seriously
Employees told a House committee investigating the events of the May 24 shooting that the repeated …
Hannah Getahun
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More than $2 million raised for the family of slain Uvalde teacher and her husband who died days later
The GoFundMe fundraiser created by the family of Ira Garcia exceeded the $10,000 goal, raising over…
Taylor Ardrey
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Texas school shooting: Trauma surgeon chokes up while talking about how her team is treating injured victims
Pediatric trauma doctor Lillian Liao said she was "grateful" for the "opportunity to say your child…
Cheryl Teh
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What is Yubo, the app the Uvalde school shooter used to meet strangers before his killings?
The 18-year-old gunman met several people on the social-media app, including a 15-year-old girl who…
Connor Perrett
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Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been placed on leave from the school district's police force
The district superintendent said the move was made due to "the lack of clarity that remains" surrou…
Lauren Frias
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Uvalde school district called the cops on reporters trying to question the school's police chief: video
Officers threatened reporters with citations for trespassing on school property as they sought inte…
Natalie Musumeci
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2 Texas school shooting victims, who texted 'I love you' to each other at bedtime, to be buried side-by-side
"It brings a smile to your face just to think they really loved each other," the children's teacher…
Waiyee Yip
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Robb Elementary will be demolished, Uvalde mayor says during city council meeting
"You can never ask a child to go back or teacher to go back in that school ever," Mayor Don McLaugh…
Hannah Getahun
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Texas authorities told a mother of a Uvalde victim that her daughter may have lived if police acted sooner, local state senator says
"Their child likely bled out. In that span of 30 or 40 minutes extra, that little girl might have l…
Katie Balevic
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The Uvalde attacker was nicknamed 'school shooter' online and in real life but nobody ever intervened, official report says
A report from the Texas House of Representatives highlighted chilling examples of the Uvalde gunman…
Mia Jankowicz
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Uvalde report says a coach outside Robb Elementary alerted the school that a shooter was on campus and 'almost certainly saved lives'
Coach Yvette Silva saw the shooter hop the fence into Robb Elementary and immediately alerted the s…
Hannah Getahun
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The Uvalde gunman's co-workers nicknamed him 'school shooter' before the attack that killed 21 people
A co-worker from the Wendy's where the Uvalde gunman was employed told The New York Times they nick…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Uvalde families are upset over leaked video that showed police running away from the gunman and stopping for hand sanitizer while kids were trapped in classroom
The Robb Elementary video, which was edited to remove the children's screams but not gunfire, was p…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Uvalde officials presented Texas DPS with a document labeled 'narrative' days after the school shooting. It said because police had 'zero hesitation' and 'moved directly toward the gunfire' they saved over 500 lives.
A report says the document contained an account of events different from the one that the DPS event…