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The Latest Breaking News from Uvalde

The tragic history of police responding too late to active shooters

WEKU

Editorial: Uvalde parents put their faith in a school police commander who lost his nerve

A CNN reporter correctly confronted the Uvalde, Texas, school district chief of police on Wednesday, refusing to take no for an answer when Chief Pedro Arredondo repeatedly tried to sidestep the reporter and avoid answering crucial questions about last week’s school massacre. Arredondo escaped through a door, after which the…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Martin Schram: Can gun owners lead our leaders to safeguard America?

Thursday night at the White House, speaking to America with grim emotion, President Joe Biden used a single statistic to sum up two decades of national pain and revulsion we have all endured. His one statistic also seemed to sum up the horror of our last two weeks of mass-killings…

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Can journalists and grieving communities coexist in tragedy?

When tragedies like school shootings happen, journalists quickly follow in huge numbers, putting communities in the world's spotlight in their worst possible moment

The Independent UK

11-year-old Uvalde survivor who covered herself in blood and played dead to testify to Congress

Survivors of Uvalde and Buffalo shooting will join hearing

The Independent UK

Sunday’s funeral in Uvalde remembers Alithia Ramirez, 10

A 10-year-old girl who dreamed of being an artist before she was killed at Robb Elementary School was remembered at a funeral service Sunday.

Tribune News Service

‘Awareness and change needs to be made,’ says Celtics coach Ime Udoka in the wake of the Uvalde shooting

The Celtics coach shared he and his former coach Gregg Popovich are of one mind when it comes to the Uvalde massacre and mass shootings more generally.

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As Congress claims it’s ‘getting serious’ on gun reform, America endures seven mass shootings in 48 hours

Bipartisan talks in Senate continue but promise only limited change

The Independent UK

Uvalde gunman's first target recounts terror in sermon

One of the first targets of the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, is now trying to comfort the community

The Independent UK

Funeral for Uvalde girl who dreamed of going to art school

A girl whose joy at reaching the double-digit age of 10 charmed broken hearts around the world is being remembered at a funeral Sunday

The Independent UK

Texas educators grapple with push to arm more teachers post-Uvalde

DALLAS — Glynn Wilcox can’t remember which school shooting prompted him to attend a firearms defense class for educators in the Dallas area.

Tribune News Service

Texas superintendents want safer schools. But money and logistics stand in the way

DALLAS — Even as Republican state leaders stressed “hardening” schools and increasing security measures as a response to the state’s deadliest shooting in Uvalde, educators stressed the community aspect to their campuses.

Tribune News Service

The 'Dead Kid Club': Parents of mass shooting victims are a growing network

Four years and six days before a fourth-grade class was gunned down at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Rhonda Hart lost her teenage daughter, Kimberly Vaughan, in a shooting at a high school about 300 miles east.

Los Angeles Times

What is the ‘dead suspect loophole,’ and how will it affect what we know about Uvalde?

DALLAS — In the days since an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself inside an elementary school classroom in Uvalde and fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, the police’s narrative of the events leading up to and during the massacre has shifted by the day.

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Axios

Uvalde's Robb Elementary will become "something other" than school: Superintendent

"We have plans for it to become something other than a school site."

Daily Mirror

Teacher's despair as police wrongly say she left door open before Texas school shooting

Emilia Marin has been subjected to sickening abuse after the incorrect claim, made by authorities following the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, saying she left a door open allowing killer Salvador Ramos to enter

The Independent UK

Teachers after Texas attack: ‘None of us are built for this'

When graduation balloons popped inside a West Virginia high school, a teacher had to reassure students who ducked for cover that the noise did not come from gunfire

The Independent UK

Tulsa shooting puts focus on waiting periods for gun buyers

The mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, are again putting the focus on gun control measures such as waiting periods to buy firearms

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Robb Elementary may be demolished

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin says the location of the school shooting massacre should be wiped, and Biden agrees

The Independent UK

Uvalde 10-year-olds: Smart, funny, loving animals, football

Family members are mourning the loss of two 10-year-old elementary school students in Uvalde, Texas, and remembering them for the love they showed them

The Independent UK

Shootings expose divisions on gun issue in faith communities

The recent surge of mass shootings in America has led to debates in faith communities over what is “pro-life.”

WEKU

What the shooting in Uvalde has meant for the Latino community

While the nation is reeling from the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the Latino community is being hit particularly hard as they see the names and photos of the victims who look and sound like them.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: Americans are living in fear of gun violence. And we don't have security like Ted Cruz

Spurred by rising violence with firearms, the nation began work to write into law "the strongest gun control measures in over 40 years."

The Guardian - US

Uvalde police were trained to quickly confront an active shooter. So why did they wait?

After Columbine, FBI training urged that quick action is critical to saving lives. Somehow that lesson hasn’t been learned

The Independent UK

Firm proposes Taser-armed drones to stop school shootings

Taser developer Axon said this week it is working to build drones armed with the electric stunning weapons that could fly into schools and “help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook, or Columbine.”

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