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Uvalde school shooting: What we know one year later

Twenty-one people died at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022. The mass shooting and delayed police response spurred calls for stricter gun laws.

The Texas Tribune

Medical response delayed care in Uvalde

Evidence shows how the medical response faltered after police finally confronted the Robb Elementary shooter

Salon

Heartbreaking Uvalde 911 audio released

Audio shows just how long police likely knew that children and teachers were in danger before taking action

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“I’m so scared”: 911 recordings reveal fear and urgency of those trapped in Uvalde elementary school

Audio obtained by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica shows just how long police and dispatchers likely knew that children and teachers were in danger before taking action at Robb Elementary School.

The Texas Tribune

Texas state trooper who responded to Uvalde shooting fired amid investigations into police response

Department of Public Safety Sgt. Juan Maldonado is the first state police officer fired in the aftermath of a botched police response to the shooting. He was the highest-ranking state trooper to initially respond to Robb Elementary School.

The Texas Tribune

Former school police chief in Uvalde ‘disappointed’ by law enforcement failures

UVALDE, Texas — He’s sat with grieving family members at funerals, and accompanied them to ongoing wakes to honor victims of one of the most gruesome mass school shootings in the country.

Tribune News Service

Eight pivotal moments in the police response to the Uvalde shooting, captured by officers’ body cameras

The new material further illustrates the lack of coordination among officers, the confusion over the chain of command and the delays in confronting the shooter.

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Uvalde Cops Also Held Back the Officer Whose Wife Was Shot and Dying

New body cam footage shows Ruben Ruiz heading toward the classroom to rescue his wife, but other officers stopped him.

Reason

Uvalde officer seen checking phone in surveillance footage is husband of teacher killed in massacre

Officer had tried to save his wife but was barred by other officers from doing so and had his gun taken away, according to report

The Independent UK

Lawmaker: Officer in Uvalde video husband of slain teacher

A Texas lawmaker says a Uvalde police officer criticized over video of him checking his phone during the massacre at Robb Elementary School was the husband of a teacher killed in the classroom

The Independent UK

Uvalde police officer criticized for checking his phone was waiting to hear from his dying wife

“I couldn’t say nothing seeing this man, who’s lost everything, maligned as if he was indifferent or actively malicious,” Rep. Joe Moody, a member of the Uvalde House Investigating Committee, said on Twitter.

The Texas Tribune

TIMELINE: Texas elementary school shooting, minute by minute

On May 24, a gunman fatally shot 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas

The Independent UK

First Thing: supreme court abortion ruling sure to inflame America’s divisions

Only 25% of Americans now have confidence in the institution. Plus, shipwreck of US destroyer ‘Sammy B’ discovered

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Cops detained Uvalde teacher's husband

Longtime Uvalde Officer Ruben Ruiz had conducted the district's active-shooter drill just weeks earlier

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Uvalde officer was detained by colleagues as he tried to save teacher wife who called him to report shooter

‘He was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene’

Tribune News Service

New timeline details state’s view that response to Uvalde shooting was an ‘abject failure’

AUSTIN, Texas — Calling the police response to the Uvalde school shooting an “abject failure,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw testified to the Texas Senate on Tuesday, corroborating reports indicating that numerous police were inside the school within minutes of the first 911 calls.

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde school police chief “decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” Texas DPS director says

Steve McCraw testified before a Texas Senate committee, laying blame on local police officers in Uvalde for not acting faster to save children during the school shooting.

Al Jazeera

Uvalde school police chief defends delay in entering classroom

Pete Arredondo said in an interview that he did not consider himself in charge of the scene of the school shooting.

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Uvalde School Police Chief Defends Texas Shooting Response

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in US history said in his first extensive comments, published Thursday, that he did not consider himself the person in charge as the massacre unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the…

The Independent UK

Report: Police knew of injured at Texas school while waiting

Police waited for protective equipment as they delayed entering the Texas elementary school where a gunman inside killed 19 children and two teachers

The Independent UK

Teacher killed in Uvalde called officer husband but police blocked him from entering school, report says

Eva Mireles was among 21 people killed at Robb Elementary school on 24 May

Daily Record

Texas school shooting: Hero teacher killed 'trying to shield students from gunman'

Eva Mireless was killed during the shooting on Tuesday, in which 19 children and one other teacher also died.

Daily Mirror

Husband of Texas school shooting victim taught kids to play dead in drill two months ago

Salvador Ramos, 18, has sent shockwaves around the world after he killed 19 children and two teachers in a sickening attack on Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas, yesterday

Daily Mirror

Texas shooting: First pictures of 17 tragic kids among 19 slaughtered at school

Children as young as nine have been identified as among the innocent victims of 18-year-old Salvador Ramos who went on a rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas

Daily Mirror

Texas school shooting: Hero teacher killed while 'trying to protect her young students'

Mum and special education teacher Eva Mireles, 44, has been named as a victim of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Texas which killed 19 children and two adults

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