The former Uvalde schools police chief and another former district officer have been indicted by a grand jury for their role responding to a gunman who opened fire inside Robb Elementary School, killing 19 students and two teachers in May 2022. Pete Arredondo, the former chief who served as police …
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The families of victims of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting have reached a $2 million settlement with the City of Uvalde and filed a new lawsuit against Texas law enforcement officers over the massacre. The settlement damages, per a statement shared with Rolling Stone, will be distributed to the …
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A new documentary, Print It Black, will look at how Uvalde Leader-News journalists covered the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in 2022. A trailer for the film, which premieres on ABC News Live and Hulu at 8 p.m. ET on May 24, shows the stress and devastation the staff …
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Every morning, Veronica Mata goes into her daughter Tess’ room to raise the blinds — even if Tess is no longer there to see the sun. Thursday, though, the ritual took on a new significance. She had at least a few more answers about Tess’ final moments. On May 24, …
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Stevie Nicks penned an emotional essay on the one-year anniversary of the Uvalde school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. In the missive, which she posted to Instagram with the hashtag #UvaldeStrong, she reflected on her own youth in Texas — several hundred miles away in El …
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An investigative report based on previously unreleased records obtained by The Washington Post, The Texas Tribune, and ProPublica has called the medical response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting on May 24 at Robb Elementary “flawed.” Two teachers and 19 students died in that shooting, and the investigation alleges that …
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“It’s a shitty time of year.” It’s a Friday in early December, and I ask Nelba Márquez-Greene how she’s doing. In roughly two weeks, it will be 10 years since her daughter, Ana, was killed at the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She’s fending off interview requests from news …
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Matthew McConaughey reflected on his pointed decision to advocate for “gun responsibility” instead of “gun control” following the mass shooting at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, in a new interview with People. McConaughey emerged as one of the most prominent and outspoken voices after 21 people, …
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The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District announced Friday that it has suspended its entire school police force, five months after the deadly mass shooting at the city’s Robb Elementary that left 19 children and two teachers dead. “The District has made the decision to suspend all activities of the Uvalde …
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The Uvalde school board fired police chief Pete Arredondo Wednesday evening, following months of intense scrutiny and multiple investigations into law enforcement’s bungled and haphazard response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School earlier this summer. In a unanimous vote, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board of trustees …
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