A Texas school board on Wednesday fired its district police chief, three months to the day after a gunman killed 19 4th graders and two teachers at a school under his purview. Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo was widely criticized for response to the shooting, in which dozens of police officers stood by …
Salvador Ramos had been nicknamed “school shooter” for his online gaming antics as a teen, but he had struggled since early childhood with a stutter and was bullied because of it and his family’s economic status.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin released the videos “to be transparent.”
The incident commander in charge of the police response to the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Texas last week wasn’t carrying a police radio, according to a Texas state senator. Sen. Roland Gutierrez told the Associated Press that he got the information from an official with the Texas Department of Public Safety, …
Pete Arredondo refused to answer questions about the investigation, however, out of respect for the families of the murdered victims.
State police spokesman Travis Considine also said Tuesday that the teacher who propped a door open at the school – which Salvador Ramos used to get inside – did close the door, but it didn’t lock.
An incident commander mistakenly believed no more children were at risk about 20 minutes into the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday and made the decision to hold back and wait for more equipment before breaching the door where the shooter was barricaded. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said Friday …
The father of the 18-year-old who opened fire at a Texas elementary school this week — killing 19 students and two teachers — says he’s sorry for “what my son did.” Salvador Ramos, 42 — who has the same name as his teen son — told The Daily Beast that he “never expected my son …
Texas state officials offered up a new timeline of Tuesday’s horrific and deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde — including walking back their own earlier reports that police “engaged” Salvador Ramos before he entered the building and killed 19 students and two teachers. Seventeen other people were wounded in the attack. “He was …
It was “the longest 35 minutes of my life,” said a teacher who survived the Robb Elementary School massacre.
