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First grader who shot teacher in Virginia is among the youngest school shooters in US history

Barely a week into the new year, a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, becoming one of the youngest school shooters in the nation’s history. While details of the case are still emerging, his teacher remains hospitalized with serious injuries. David Riedman, creator…

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Age of Virginia class shooter presents rarity, legal hurdle

A school shooting that Virginia police said was committed by a 6-year-old student represents an extremely rare occurrence of a child that young bringing a gun into a school and wounding a teacher, according to experts who study gun violence

The Independent UK

Mother of Princess Beatrice’s stepson ‘glad’ Wolfie is studying in the UK: ‘I can sleep at night knowing he won’t die at his desk’

Dara Huang reflected on the dangers of school shootings in America

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Vile trolls abuse Sandy Hook victim's mum on 10th anniversary of school shooting

Michele Gay, whose seven-year-old daughter Josephine was shot dead in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, said she still receives abuse from vile trolls who insist her girl was not killed

Daily Mirror

Family of Uvalde victim urge Congress for tougher gun laws: ‘When is enough enough?’

Sister of victim and pediatrician testify during congressional hearing on the mass school shooting at Robb elementary

The Guardian - US

10 years after Sandy Hook, a family finds bits of joy amid shards of pain

Families who had their lives shattered on Dec. 14, 2012, are still straining under the weight of their losses — and still pushing for the changes they had hoped would have already happened by now.

WEKU

Sandy Hook siblings walked different, and sometimes difficult, paths to deal with the trauma of losing their younger brother

HARTFORD, Conn. — Erin Kowalski was 11 years old and in sixth grade when her little brother Chase died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Her sister Brittany was a freshman in high school.

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A decade after Sandy Hook, grief remains but hope grows

Ten years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, victims' families and survivors say grief and trauma remain but hope continues to grow

The Independent UK

Parents of Michigan school shooter again ask for lower bond to get out of jail

DETROIT — The parents of the teen who pleaded guilty to the deadly Oxford High School shooting spree last year have again requested that their bond amounts be lowered so they can get released from jail on bond while they await trial next year in their involuntary manslaughter case.

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Metro Detroit school threats, charges have 'spiked exponentially' since Oxford shooting

DETROIT — A massive increase in threats against Metro Detroit schools in the wake of the Oxford High School shooting has led to an explosion in criminal charges being brought against the alleged perpetrators and prompted two local prosecutors to change how they handle threats cases.

Tribune News Service

Uvalde school shooting victims seek $27bn in class-action lawsuit

US lawsuit says officials failed to follow active attacker protocol as they waited too long to confront the attacker.

Al Jazeera

Uvalde shooting victims seek $27B, class action in lawsuit

Victims of a Texas elementary school shooting are seeking a $27 billion class action lawsuit against city and state police, the city of Uvalde and other school and law enforcement officials for failing to follow active shooter protocol, according to the lawsuit filed this week

The Independent UK

Alex Jones files for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay $1.5bn for his Sandy Hook lies

Conspiracy theorist has been ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages to families impacted by his baseless claims about 2012 massacre

The Independent UK

Oxford school shooting trial delayed by appeal by parents

The Michigan Supreme Court has postponed the January trial for the parents of the teenager who killed four students at his high school

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Chicago Sun-Times

Police: 5 dead, 18 hurt in Colorado gay nightclub shooting

The violence is the sixth mass killing this month and comes in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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Michigan students travel to Uvalde, Texas, to support their fellow school shooting survivors

DETROIT — Oxford High graduate Zoe Touray climbed through the window of her fifth-hour classroom on Nov. 30, 2021, to escape a gunman carrying out an attack inside Oxford High School.

Al Jazeera

Uvalde police chief who delayed during school shooting steps down

Mariano Pargas, who came under scrutiny over his response to deadly Texas shooting, resigns amid calls he step down.

The Independent UK

Acting Uvalde police chief during school shooting steps down

The Uvalde officer who was leading the city’s police department during the hesitant law enforcement response to the elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers has stepped down

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Daily Mirror

Life sentence sought for teen, 16, who killed four classmates in school shooting

Prosecutors say they want to secure a life sentence with no chance of parole for a 16-year-old boy who massacred four classmates in a horrific school shooting last year

Al Jazeera

Uvalde acting chief delayed after learning children were alive

Call between the Uvalde acting police chief and dispatcher underscores delay in response to US school shooting.

The Independent UK

Sandy Hook memorial opens nearly 10 years after 26 killed

A memorial to the 20 first graders and six educators killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has opened to the public, a month before the 10th anniversary of the massacre

The Independent UK

Texas judge orders sealing autopsy reports of Uvalde school shooting victims

District attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee argues that ‘release of the details contained in the autopsy records would alert potential suspects of information’

The Texas Tribune

Greg Abbott reelected Texas governor, defeating Beto O’Rourke

The governor prevailed after a tumultuous period that included the pandemic, a statewide blackout, restrictions on voting and abortion and the Uvalde school shooting.

The Texas Tribune

South Texas, Abbott vs. O’Rourke, and Harris County: Here are the biggest things to watch for on election night

While the GOP focuses on the border and economy under President Joe Biden, Democrats are hoping to prove polls and political forecasters wrong by tapping into anger over the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Uvalde school shooting.

France 24

US midterm elections: Texan voters divided over gun control

One of the key issues on US voters' minds during the upcoming midterm elections will be gun control. Around 40,000 people die from gun violence in the country each year. After every mass shooting, the same questions are asked about whether to restrict access to weapons. In the weeks following…

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