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Abbott is also scheduled to address an NRA event on Friday

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Incidents allegedly occurred between September 2021 and January 2022

“You said this was not predictable, this was totally predictable, and you choose not to do anything"

Salvador Ramos updated his Facebook friends on his day as he shot his grandmother, then killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school, police said Wednesday.

Adriana Reyes said her son Salvador Ramos was a loner but insisted that he was not a violent person following the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas

The teen responsible for one of the worst school shootings in the US wrote about his intentions before barricading himself inside a classroom.

“I hate to say this, there are more people that are shot every weekend in Chicago than there are in schools in Texas,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said. Gov. J.B. Pritzker tweeted, “Shame on you.” Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) tweeted that the Republican governor was an “@sshole” and should” keep…

UVALDE, Texas — A gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history posted his intentions before barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said Wednesday.

"We cannot exhale once again, make excuses, and accept these tragic realities as the status quo," the actor wrote

AUSTIN, Texas — An emotional Gov. Greg Abbott was interrupted by an equally emotional Beto O’Rourke as the Republican governor and other state officials sought Wednesday to discuss a school shooting in Uvalde a day earlier.