May 29 Justice Department to review police response to Texas school shooting By Zeke Miller, Michael Balsamo, Associated Press The review comes amid mounting pressure and questions about the shifting and at times contradictory information of what happened in the shooting last Tuesday at Robb Elementary School and how police responded. Continue reading
May 29 WATCH: Biden, first lady visit memorial at Uvalde elementary school By Zeke Miller, Elliot Spagat, Associated Press President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden offered comfort Sunday to a city gripped by grief and anger as they paid respects at a memorial to 19 students and two teachers slain during a mass shooting at a Texas… Continue reading
May 29 U.S. schools increase security following Uvalde mass shooting By Terry Tang, Associated Press For some families and educators it all has added to uneasiness in the wake of the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Continue reading
May 28 Watch 7:31 Devastated Uvalde families demand answers on police response Days after the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, devastated families continue to demand answers, after officials admit they did not act quickly enough. Brian Higgins, a professor of disaster management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a… Continue watching
May 28 Watch 5:14 A mother whose daughter died in a 2012 mass shooting shares message with Uvalde parents By Amna Nawaz, Emily Carpeaux, Sam Lane, Frank Carlson Nearly 10 years after her daughter Jessi was killed in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, Sandy Phillips is visiting yet another mass shooting site. Since her daughter and 11 others were killed in July 2012, Phillips has traveled the country… Continue watching
May 28 Vice President Harris visits Buffalo as last funeral is held for victims of racist attack By Susan Haigh, Associated Press The funeral for 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield — the oldest of the 10 Black people who were killed — included a speech by Vice President Kamala Harris, who attended the service at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Buffalo, New York. Continue reading
May 28 Uvalde shooting investigation focuses on police response By Stefanie Dazio, Associated Press The actions — or more notably, the inaction — of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers moved swiftly to the center of the investigation into this week's shocking school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, The delay in… Continue reading
May 27 Uvalde shooter's final 90 minutes fuel questions about police delays By Jake Bleiberg, Jim Vertuno, Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Texas authorities say the gunman who massacred 21 people at an elementary school was in the building for over an hour before he was killed by law enforcement officers. The amount of time that elapsed has stirred anger and questions… Continue reading
May 26 Watch 11:00 Researchers look for ways to identify young people who are on the 'pathway to violence' The massacre in Uvalde is again driving heated debate about the millions of guns owned by Americans, and how some clearly disturbed people can get those weapons and wreak havoc in an instant. Mark Follman, an editor at Mother Jones… Continue watching
May 26 WATCH: Texas police say gunman was inside the Uvalde school for over an hour By Jake Bleiberg, Jim Vertuno, Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Texas authorities say the gunman who massacred 21 people at an elementary school was in the building for over an hour before he was killed by law enforcement officers. Continue reading