Uvalde officer who drew outrage for checking phone was waiting to hear from dying wife, lawmaker says
A Uvalde police officer criticized over video of him checking his phone during the massacre at Robb Elementary School is the husband of a teacher who was killed in the classroom and had contacted him after being shot, according to a Texas lawmaker.
Families of Uvalde mass shooting victims react to leaked video
A day after surveillance video from the Uvalde mass shooting was leaked to the media, families are grappling with what they finally saw for themselves. They reacted in shock to footage that shows increasingly armed officers waiting for commands outside a classroom where children and teachers were dying.
Officials angered that Uvalde shooting surveillance video was obtained ahead of planned release
Both statewide and Uvalde elected leaders have said they want full transparency about what happened in the near hour and a half it took for law enforcement to kill a school shooter. They called for the release of surveillance video on their terms, but an Austin-based news outlet had it and released it anyway.
Video from inside Uvalde school shows officers milling around hallway during massacre
Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with a AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Calls grow for officials to release surveillance video from Uvalde mass school shooting
Some lawmakers and journalists have seen the full 77 minutes from the moment the shooter entered the school to the moment law enforcement finally breached the classroom and killed him. It reportedly depicts a damning account of police inaction in the face of tragedy.
Richardson ISD TA raising funds for Robb Elementary teachers for school supplies
The Richardson ISD TA is from Uvalde and attended Robb Elementary School as a child. Now, he is working to make sure teachers have what they need to start over.
Officials agree to release some hallway video from Uvalde school shooting: report
This news comes after a battle between the city’s mayor and Texas Department of Public Safety over whether the footage should be released.
Uvalde mayor disputes new report on school shooting; committee blocked from getting bodycam video
The Texas House committee investigating the incident is being blocked from obtaining school surveillance video they want to release to the public.
New report details missed chances to stop Uvalde shooting
The report is yet another damning assessment of how police failed to act on opportunities that might have saved lives in what became the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
Uvalde schools’ police chief resigns from City Council
The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council in the wake of the mass school shooting at Robb Elementary that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
Uvalde families demand details of shooting investigation at City Council meeting
Uvalde’s mayor said city officials could be prosecuted for releasing details of the investigation. Pete Arredondo, the City Council member and school district police chief, was absent for the second straight meeting.
Uvalde mother who got out of cuffs to rescue kids from shooting is now being harassed by police, lawyer says
A Uvalde mother who was handcuffed as she tried to run by police outside Robb Elementary School, but eventually got free and rescued her kids, is now being harassed by police after speaking out about the ordeal, her lawyer said this week.
H-E-B, Butt family donate $10 million to replace Robb Elementary School in Uvalde
The Butt family and H-E-B says the project to build a new elementary school campus will "help the children, families, staff and Uvalde CISD community move forward together.”
Biden signs landmark, bipartisan gun violence bill: 'Lives will be saved'
The legislation will toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people judged to be dangerous.
Uvalde victim's sister pleads for tougher gun laws in Texas
Well before the sun came up Thursday, Jazmin Cazares sat on her sister’s bed and wept for the 9-year-old killed in the Uvalde school rampage one month ago. Then the teenager with purple-streaked hair got up for the four-hour drive to the Texas Capitol, where she tearfully pleaded with lawmakers to pass tougher gun laws and questioned why so many security measures failed.
Texas senator sues DPS over withholding information on Uvalde mass shooting
While the head of the DPS continues to point fingers at the local response to the deadly school shooting, a state senator has sued the department for withholding video from the scene. “We are getting half-truths, innuendos and snippets of body cam video that he chooses to give."
Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo placed on administrative leave by superintendent
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has announced that police chief Pete Arredondo has been placed on administrative leave.
Uvalde school shooting: Officer whose wife was shot was disarmed and 'escorted' away, Texas DPS chief says
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw ripped into the Uvalde school police chief's handling of last month's shooting at Robb Elementary School and said that some officers wanted to approach the gunman earlier, including a school district police officer whose wife was killed in the massacre.
Uvalde timeline: DPS releases activity log, police chatter as they waited outside classroom of massacre
The Uvalde school shooting timeline shows it took 74 minutes from when police went into the school to the time they confronted and killed the gunman. Throughout that time, unknown officers are reported rejecting DPS Special Agents' calls to go into the classroom, saying, "Don't you think we should have a supervisor approve that?"
Texas police commander: Uvalde police could've ended rampage early on
The police commander made the comments while giving testimony during a committee hearing on the deadly school shooting that left 2 teachers and 19 children dead.