Tuesday 28 June 2022
The officer grew up in city where he also spent much of his nearly 30-year career in law enforcement.
Steve McCraw said officers would have found the door to the classroom where the assailant was holed up unlocked if they had bothered to check it.
The actor spoke powerfully about some of the children who died in his hometown of Uvalde two weeks ago.
The 911 calls ‘were not being communicated to the so-called incident commander’, Senator Roland Gutierrez told a news conference
Irma Garcia was killed in the shooting and her husband Joe died two days later from a heart attack.
Pete Arredondo has spent much of a nearly 30-year career in policing in Uvalde, returning in 2020 to take the head police job at the school district.
This week alone, funerals are planned for 11 children and teacher Irma Garcia.
The US Justice Department announced on Sunday that it will review the police response and make its findings public.
Harrowing accounts emerged of the ordeal faced by survivors of Tuesday’s attack on an elementary school.
US President Joe Biden will visit the town tomorrow.
Former US president Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed that he will attend the NRA meeting.
19 students and two teachers were shot dead by a gunman at around midday local time on Tuesday.
The tragedy unfurled on Tuesday when an 18-year-old killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.
Details of how the mass shooting took place are beginning to emerge.
19 children and two teachers were killed in the shooting on Tuesday.
The shooting at Uvalde has once again raised the question of gun control in the US.
Lizelle Herrera (26) was arrested on April 7, for “intentionally and knowingly [causing] the death of an individual by self-induced abortion”.
The Valero Texas Open is this week’s PGA Tour event.
The outvoted three liberal justices on the nation’s highest court penned a scathing dissent.
It comes after the man who held four hostages at the synagogue was identified by US authorities as a British citizen.
The FBI said the man was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community.
Rhasidat Adeleke on a memorable year in which she won two gold medals at the European Athletics U20 Championships and moved to Texas.
Around 300 people were injured and treated at the festival site and 25 were taken to hospitals.
Billy Chemirmir, 48, will appear in court in connection with the death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris.
Ezra Blount was placed in a medically induced coma after suffering serious injuries in the crush of fans.
A total of 23 people were also hospitalised.
Senate Bill 8 (SB8) bans abortions after a heartbeat can be detected in the womb.
The law has been in effect since September, aside from a district court-ordered pause that lasted 48 hours.
The law bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks.
Democratic President Joe Biden last month announced the government would demand vaccines for federal workers.
Clinics had braced for the New Orleans-based appeals court to act fast.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said he would appeal the judge’s ruling to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The ruling is the first legal blow to the contentious Texas law known as Senate Bill 8.
The shooting stemmed from a fight that broke out in a classroom.
The protest took place to coincide with hundreds of similar demonstrations across the US.
At least one Texas abortion provider said it stood ready to resume offering services.
Almost 15,000 people – most of them Haitians – converged on the area just days earlier seeking asylum.
The legislation bans abortions from as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
