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Uvalde superintendent recommends firing police Chief Pete Arredondo

The school board plans to meet Saturday to vote on the proposal, days after a Texas House committee report highlighted widespread failures in the police response to the Robb Elementary shooting.

The Texas Tribune

Frequent lockdowns may have led to slow Uvalde response

Nearly two months after a deadly shooting a Texas elementary school, a Texas House of Representatives committee report found that nearly 400 officers from local, state and federal agencies responded to the 77-minute rampage in which 19 kids and two teachers died

The Independent UK

Two decades of shooter response strategy ignored in Uvalde

A total of 376 officers converged on Robb Elementary School, more than the entire police force in a mid-size American city like Fort Lauderdale, Florida or Tempe, Arizona

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Uvalde report takeaways: Massive response but little action

The Texas House report into the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting charts a massive but uncoordinated and chaotic response from law enforcement

The Independent UK

These are the 4 key takeaways from the Uvalde shooting investigation report

The investigative committee found law enforcement's response to the massacre involved little coordination and no leadership. School faculty, meanwhile, failed to uphold existing safeguards.

WEKU

Uvalde parents’ anger and quest for answers persist after committee faults school and police in mass shooting

Uvalde residents who lost loved ones at Robb Elementary say they want to know if officers will face repercussions.

The Texas Tribune

A year before Uvalde shooting, gunman had threatened women, carried around a dead cat and been nicknamed “school shooter”

Identified as at-risk, he never received special education services and ultimately flunked out, according to a Texas House committee report.

The Texas Tribune

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Surveillance footage from Uvalde school massacre could finally be released

The missing 77 minutes between the start of the Robb Elementary School shooting and the police shooting of suspect Salvador Ramos could finally be a little clearer.

Tribune News Service

Uvalde mayor denies police officer had chance to shoot gunman outside school

DALLAS — Two days after the first in a series of reports examining the law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary school shooting was released, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin has denied one of its most striking findings.

Tribune News Service

Uvalde mayor disputes report that police missed opportunity to shoot gunman

Mayor Don McLaughlin denied a recent report that said a Uvalde officer passed up a chance to shoot the gunman at Robb Elementary. The officer never saw the gunman, he said.

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde chief resigns from City Council

Arredondo was elected just weeks before the Robb Elementary School shooting

Salon

Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo resigns from City Council

Arredondo has faced criticism over the botched response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary.

Axios

H-E-B and the Butt family will give Uvalde $10 million for a new school

The grocery chain H-E-B and its founding Butt family are donating $10 million to help build a new elementary school in Uvlade to replace Robb Elementary, where a shooter took 21 lives on May 24.

Tribune News Service

Butt family, H-E-B donate $10 million to replace Robb Elementary School in Uvalde after mass shooting

The timeline is still unclear for demolishing the school building. The district has plans to replace it with a memorial park.

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Uvalde schools police chief placed on leave amid fierce criticism of school shooting response

The move comes weeks after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Uvalde CISD police Chief Pete Arredondo, one of the first to respond, and state officials have provided differing stories about what happened inside the school.

The Texas Tribune

Before the school shooting, Uvalde was known for a 1970 Hispanic student walkout. Its aging participants fear its spirit and memory are fading.

The Independent UK

Robb Elementary School: Site of Uvalde shooting to be demolished, says mayor

‘You can never ask a child to go back or teacher to go back in that school, ever,’ says Uvalde mayor

Tribune News Service

Trauma surgeons detail the horror of mass shootings in the wake of Uvalde and call for reforms

When Dr. Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician in Uvalde, Texas, testified before a U.S. House committee June 8 about gun violence, he told lawmakers about the horror of seeing the bodies of two of the 19 children killed in the Robb Elementary massacre. They were so pulverized, he said, that they…

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Reason

Uvalde School Officials Think Hiring Even More Cops Is the Solution

Robb Elementary didn't need additional cops; it needed the cops on hand to actually do their jobs.

Tribune News Service

‘I don’t want it to happen again,’ Uvalde student says as gun laws debated in Congress

WASHINGTON — Miah Cerrillo gave lawmakers a horrifying first-hand account of last month's school massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde as she described covering herself in her friend’s blood to play dead while the shooter gunned down her classmates.

Axios

Uvalde's Robb Elementary will become "something other" than school: Superintendent

"We have plans for it to become something other than a school site."

Salon

Robb Elementary may be demolished

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin says the location of the school shooting massacre should be wiped, and Biden agrees

The Independent UK

Texas school shooting: Robb Elementary worker takes legal action against gun company

It appears to be the first court action in relation to the massacre

Tribune News Service

Texas House creates special committee to investigate Uvalde school shooting

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced Friday the creation of a special investigative committee to examine the Robb Elementary School shooting.

Tribune News Service

Robb Elementary teacher who police incorrectly claimed left door open is ‘heartbroken,’ lawyer says

A Texas teacher already reeling after the mass shooting inside Robb Elementary has been made to feel all the more devastated by authorities who incorrectly stated she propped open a door that allowed the gunman to enter the school.

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