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The Latest Breaking News from Salvador Ramos

Texas official says ‘wrong decision’ to wait to confront shooter

‘No excuse’ for officers to wait rather than enter classrooms where 9-and 10-year olds were trapped with gunman.

Al Jazeera

Donald Trump set to address National Rifle Association in wake of Texas massacre

In a twist of irony, the Secret Service has banned firearms from the convention centre’s assembly hall because of Mr Trump’s presence

Evening Standard

Uvalde school police held active shooter training just two months before massacre

Gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers in Robb Elementary massacre

The Independent UK

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‘Are you gonna shoot up the school?’: Salvador Ramos’s chilling online chats revealed as police probe contacts

Texas gunman discussed guns and school shootings multiple times before Uvalde attack

The Independent UK

Texas gun age limits "make no sense"

Uvalde shooting highlights disparities in how federal laws regulate rifles and handguns

Salon

Police dispute claims Uvalde gunman was arrested for prior school shooting threats

DALLAS — In a Fox News interview Friday, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales claimed the Uvalde gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was arrested four years ago for threatening a school shooting. Police dispute those claims.

Tribune News Service

As police waited, children inside Texas school called 911 begging for help

UVALDE, Texas — Children inside a Texas elementary school begged the police to enter their classroom and save them, frantically calling 911, as a team of 19 officers waited in the corridor for an hour because a commander believed the situation had shifted from active shooter to a barricaded subject,…

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Uvalde police stopped Border Patrol SWAT team from entering school sooner: report

Elite Border Patrol team arrived nearly 40 minutes before gunman killed

The Independent UK

Sister of Texas gunman Salvador Ramos ‘flatly refused’ to buy him weapons in 2021, police say

Investigators say they found 142 fired rounds inside school, along with 173 live rounds of ammunition

The Independent UK

As police waited, children inside Texas school called 911 begging for help

UVALDE, Texas — Children inside a Texas elementary school begged the police to enter their classroom and save them, repeatedly calling 911, as a team of 19 police officers waited in the corridor for an hour because a commander believed the situation had shifted from active shooter to a barricaded…

Los Angeles Times

Biden laments violence and fear as Texas official says police made ‘wrong decision’

Timeline suggests about 78 minutes passed from when the gunman entered school to when officers breached the classroom

The Guardian - US

Texas school shooting: Police made 'wrong decision' not to storm classroom sooner

Colonel Steven McCraw said that “in hindsight”, the choice made by the onsite commander to delay entering the classroom was the “wrong decision”

Daily Mirror

Texas school shooting: Who are Daniel Defense, the makers of Salvador Ramos’ AR-15?

Firearms manufacturer whose AR-15 semi-automatic rifle was reportedly used in Robb Elementary School massacre pledges to co-operate with law enforcement investigations into atrocity

The Independent UK

Kids Called 911 from Classroom during Texas Massacre as Police Waited Outside

Panicked children and teachers placed half a dozen calls to 911 emergency services from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, pleading for police to intervene, while roughly 20 officers waited in a hallway for nearly an hour before entering the room, authorities said on Friday. At least two…

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The Independent UK

Texas mass shooting: Uvalde school district had extensive security plan in place to prevent attack

Nineteen children and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary despite governing administration more than doubling safety budget in five years

Chicago Sun-Times

Children called 911 inside Texas school amid shooting as police response lagged, officials say

Throughout the attack, teachers and children repeatedly called 911 asking for help, including a girl who pleaded: “Please send the police now,” authorities said.

The Independent UK

Texas shooting survivor, 11, says gunman played music during massacre

The student told CNN producers that the gunman’s played what sounded like ‘I want people to die music’

Los Angeles Times

As police waited, children inside Texas school called 911 begging for help

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The Independent UK

Texas shooting – latest: Trump speaks at NRA meeting as Abbott ‘livid’ over police errors

Law enforcement admit wrongfully believing gunman was ‘barricaded’ despite active shooter threat

The Independent UK

Mass shooters exploited gun laws, loopholes before carnage

The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18 when authorities say they bought the weapons used in the attacks

Los Angeles Times

90 minutes of terror: Questions mount over Texas shooting

With pressure mounting to explain the delayed police response to the massacre at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, Gov. Greg Abbott scrapped plans to attend the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston and will travel to the grieving town of Uvalde on Friday…

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

Police contained Texas shooter in classroom and waited an hour for backup ‘because they could have been shot’

Gunman Salvador Ramos was in the school for one hour before law enforcement intervened

The Independent UK

Growing calls for FBI to investigate police response to Uvalde massacre

Officials have not been able to answer why officers left gunman alone for one hour while parents pleaded with law enforcement to save their children

The Guardian - US

‘Forgive me, forgive my son’: parents of Texas school shooter respond

Ominous social media posts could have alerted the authorities but sifting through possible threats is an enormous task, experts say

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