The review of CBP agents’ response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting found that active shooting training was insufficient.
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The review of CBP agents’ response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting found that active shooting training was insufficient.
The city’s release ends a legal battle with news outlets, but other government agencies are withholding materials.
A group of news organizations including The Texas Tribune had sued for access to the records.
In a separate settlement, the city of Uvalde will pay $2 million to the families, create a permanent memorial to the victims and provide enhanced training for police officers.
Accounts in the documentary suggest that officers didn’t initially realize there were children in the school’s classrooms.
The state police agency had been withholding nearly all of its records on law enforcement’s botched response to Texas’ deadliest school shooting. DPS will have an opportunity to redact the files before they are released.
Evadulia Orta’s son, Rojélio Torres, died in the school shooting in Uvalde last year. Her other children still collect Pokémon cards to add to his collection, and his cousins play with his football.
Previously unreleased video, audio and interviews show for the first time how the medical response faltered after police finally confronted the Robb Elementary shooter.
Hal Harrell said his decision to leave the district after 31 years in education was “not made lightly and was made after much prayer and discernment.”
The lawsuit is the first to be filed since the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
The state’s top law enforcement agency also told USA Today that seven officers have now been referred to its internal affairs division, including two who are command staff.
The two victims of a Thursday shooting at Uvalde Memorial Park are being treated in San Antonio hospitals. Abbott’s decision to send in DPS comes as the agency faces questions over its role in the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School.
Area schools have been asked to show support and wear maroon to school this morning.
Today, students in Uvalde return to classrooms for the first day of school, just 15 weeks after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.
Some parents and community members are calling for more school district employees to be fired and for the state to raise the minimum age for buying an assault rifle.
Uvalde school officials have faced mounting pressure to fire Arredondo, who received much of the blame for the delay in confronting the shooter during the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary.
O’Rourke confronted a heckler at a campaign event Wednesday who laughed while he was talking about the Uvalde school shooting.
The lawsuit alleges that the state police have unlawfully withheld records, including body camera footage and emergency communications, during the Robb Elementary shooting.
Mandy Gutierrez was put on paid leave Monday and responded Wednesday to a Texas House committee’s investigative report about the massacre.