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Salvador Ramos: Texas shooter’s final text messages revealed

The texts show the shooters intent on the day of the attack

The Independent UK

Mum of Texas school shooter who killed 21 says he 'wasn't a violent person'

Adriana Reyes said she was 'surprised' that her son Salvador Ramos carried the atrocity at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday.

Daily Record

Salvador Ramos texted, video-called online friend in Germany before killing 21 people at Texas elementary school

A teen girl from Germany has been left to wonder whether she could have saved those killed by Salvador Ramos, who provided her several updates in the days and hours before he slaughtered 21 people inside Robb Elementary School in Texas.

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75 people have been killed in US school shootings since 2018

PHILADELPHIA — The shooting at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday was among 28 fatal shooting incidents at U.S. schools or on school grounds since 2018, resulting in the deaths of 75 people, including 60 children, according to data from Education Week and an Inquirer analysis.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

‘Go in there!’: Parents of Texas school shooting victims question police delays

Law enforcement authorities faced questions and criticism Thursday over how much time elapsed before they stormed an Uvalde elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers.

France 24

‘Look at Chicago’: Politicians again use city as example of why strict gun control won’t work

CHICAGO — Aline Stern of Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood found it difficult to send her two children to school on Wednesday, the morning after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Texas, killing 19 children and two adults.

Chicago Tribune

Videos show desperate parents asking officers to intervene in Uvalde school shooting

‘Half of these f***ing parents here, dude, they wanna go in there, without vests, without guns, to get their f***ing kids’

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Police face questions over delays in storming Texas school

Law enforcement authorities in Texas are facing questions and criticism over how much time elapsed before they stormed an Uvalde elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers

The Independent UK

After mass shooting, the small Texas town of Uvalde gathers to mourn and remember

In a uniquely American scene of mourning, community members in a small Texan town where 19 elementary school children were fatally shot in their classroom gathered the following night in a bull-riding ring beneath the Texan and American flags to put their faith in Jesus — and one another.

Los Angeles Times

Texas school shooting: Anderson Cooper consoles heartbroken dad who learned of daughter’s death from her best friend

Angel Garza, a trained medic aide, learned of his daughter’s death while trying to help her best friend who was covered in his 10-year-old’s blood

The Independent UK

‘Go in there! Go in there!’: Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school during shooting

Upset that police were not moving in, one parent who rushed to the scene raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders. “Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Texas officials deflect questions on ‘missing hour’ when gunman was in school – as it happened

Texas department of public safety briefing creates more questions about hour gunman was in school but not confronted by officers

The Guardian - US

US school shooting experts compare Salvador Ramos to profiles of other killers

Criminologists have explained what we know about gunmen who carry out school shootings.

Daily Record

Ted Cruz blames unlocked doors and not guns for Uvalde school massacre

US senator refused to blame gun laws and instead called for increased security at schools

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Los Angeles Times

Editorial: National suicide plays out one murderous mass shooting at a time

Perhaps this is how it all ends — self-government, self-defense, self-control, liberty, unity, family. Perhaps the fate of the nation is to watch its soul die along with the at least 19 students and two adults shot to death Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. This is us,…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Why The Onion’s take on the Uvalde shooting captures every parent’s worst nightmare

It’s the yellow caution tape that gets to me when I look at the pictures tweeted by the satirical website The Onion in the wake of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, yesterday. Emblazoned with the words “Sheriff’s Line Do Not Cross,” the yellow tape is draped…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Burden of proof is on gun law resistance

To put yourself in the proper frame of mind to weigh what we ask you to consider today, imagine that you were one of the parents waiting into the night Tuesday outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, knowing what had happened inside hours before — to put it bluntly,…

The National (Scotland)

Daughter of teacher killed in Texas school shooting pens heartbreaking tribute

Eva Mireles was one of the two teachers killed at Robb Elementary school in the south-western Texas on Tuesday.

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Los Angeles Times

Mark Z. Barabak: Texas school shooting was 'incomprehensible'? No, it's just another day in America

Just another day in America.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Shootings show that an armed society is nothing more than a fearful society

For decades, lies about gun violence have sustained policies that get many people killed. Tops Fresh Market in Buffalo, New York, and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, now enter America’s list of mass shootings. It is a list of intense sorrow and shame. And it is a list we…

Daily Mirror

Girl, 10, killed in Texas school shooting begged to 'stay home with mum' that morning

On Tuesday, May 24, Salvador Ramos approached Robb Elementary school and barricaded himself inside a classroom where he opened fire on the children and teachers inside

The Guardian - US

Texas gunman was inside school for about 40 minutes, officials say

Timeline of events leading up to attack emerges, amid claims police had trouble opening door of classroom where attacker had barricaded himself in

The Guardian - US

‘Evil will not win’: sorrow and disbelief as Uvalde mourns its children

Town comes together to try to come to terms with horrific attack in which 19 young children and two teachers were killed

Asharq Al-Awsat

Grief Turns to Anger after Gunman Murders 21 at Texas School

Grief at the massacre of 19 small children at an elementary school in Texas spilled into confrontation Wednesday, as angry questions mounted over gun control -- and whether this latest tragedy could have been prevented. The tight-knit Latino community of Uvalde on Tuesday became the site of America's worst school…

Al Jazeera

Shock, horror as Uvalde mourns children killed in school shooting

Community of 16,000 deeply shaken after gunman killed 19 children at the Robb Elementary School.

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