The Latest Breaking News from School Shooting

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.

Al Jazeera · Nov 15, 2022

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 · Nov 13, 2022

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 Independent UK · Nov 9, 2022

Parkland school shooter escaped death penalty after killing 17 due to controversial rule

Nikolas Cruz massacred 17 people in the deadliest high school shooting in US history and many of the victims' families hoped he would face the death penalty - but the Parkland school shooter was spared

Daily Mirror · Nov 2, 2022

Uvalde school shooting: Heartbreaking 911 call from 10-year-old girl pleading with police to help released

‘I’m in classroom 11. Please hurry. There is a lot of dead bodies,’ she is heard whispering on the call

Evening Standard · Nov 2, 2022

Parkland school mass shooter's disturbing life from creepy behaviour to evil brag

Nikolas Cruz, who massacred 17 people in the Parkland school shooting in 2018, was labelled a 'gun crazy outcast' and had a history of extremist views before the attack in Florida

Daily Mirror · Nov 2, 2022

Nikolas Cruz sentencing: A timeline of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Former student sentenced to life in prison for attack that killed 17 people and wounded 17 others in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2022

Crumbleys in court for first hearing since son's guilty plea in Oxford school shooting

PONTIAC, Mich. — James and Jennifer Crumbley are back in court Friday morning as a judge considers allowing expert testimony in their involuntary manslaughter trial connected to Nov. 30 Oxford High School shooting that killed four students.

Tribune News Service · Oct 28, 2022

Police: FBI background check blocked licensed gun dealer's sale to accused St. Louis school shooter

ST. LOUIS — The man accused of killing a teacher and teen earlier this week in a south St. Louis school shooting bought the AR-15-style gun from a private seller after an FBI background check blocked his attempted purchase from a licensed dealer in St. Charles.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 28, 2022

Police: Gun taken away earlier was used in school shooting

St. Louis police have confirmed that the gunman who forced his way into a high school, killing a student and a teacher and leaving seven others wounded, used an assault rifle that had been taken away from him earlier this month

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022