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Mother of girl killed in Uvalde shooting hits out at school district after her surviving daughter was dress-coded

Kimberly Mata-Rubio said she received a message from a school official asking her to bring leggings for her surviving daughter

The Independent UK

Uvalde shooting: Girl, 10, trapped with gunman frantically called 911 over and over

Khloie Torres pleaded with law enforcement for help as her classmates lay dead and dying around her. Shooter Salvador Rolando Ramos was allowed to carry on killing indiscriminately for a further 40 minutes before finally being stopped

Daily Mirror

Girl, 15, got text from Uvalde school shooter before he massacred 21 - but did nothing

Salvador Ramos had told her that he had just shot his grandmother in the head and was about to "shoot up an elementary school" in Uvalde, Texas, US. The teenage girl just replied "cool" and did not alert the police

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Texas state police fire first officer involved in Uvalde shooting response

The Texas Department of Public Safety fired an officer Friday who was at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre in May

The Independent UK

Texas state police fire 1st officer over Uvalde response

The Texas Department of Public Safety fired an officer Friday who was at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre in May

The Independent UK

After Uvalde CISD hires former trooper, lawmaker and parents call for DPS chief to resign

The Texas state senator who represents Uvalde, alongside the parents of the children killed in the state’s deadliest school shooting, are calling on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s director to resign following reports a former trooper who responded to the massacre was hired as a school district police officer.

Tribune News Service

US students in Uvalde, Texas back at school amid grief and fear

Robb Elementary School, where the mass shooting that claimed the lives of 21 people happened, is not reopening.

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Uvalde school year starts amid fear and unfinished security

A new and worrisome school year begins Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas

The Independent UK

Police officers involved in disastrous Uvalde shooting response could return to school, parents learn

Some residents left frustrated at lack of answers

The Independent UK

Uvalde, Texas school board sacks police chief after mass shooting

The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday under mounting pressure in the grieving Texas town to punish officers over letting a gunman at Robb Elementary School remain in a fourth-grade classroom for more than an hour with an AR-15 style rifle as 19 children and two…

France 24

Uvalde school board fires police chief over response to mass shooting

Chief Pete Arredondo is the first officer dismissed over the police response to the May 24 tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas

Wales Online

State safety officers to be a presence throughout Uvalde school district, Abbott says

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday the Department of Public Safety will be a law enforcement presence throughout the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District in the upcoming school year.

Tribune News Service

Major news outlets sue Texas agency for withholding Uvalde shooting records

Lawsuit says Texas Department of Public Safety ‘declined to provide any meaningful information’ regarding events of that day

The Guardian - US

Coalition of news organizations sues Texas Department of Public Safety over withheld records on Uvalde shooting

The lawsuit alleges that the state police have unlawfully withheld records, including body camera footage and emergency communications, during the Robb Elementary shooting.

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State senator questions having Texas DPS review Uvalde shooting response

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas state senator who represents Uvalde questioned Tuesday whether the Texas Department of Public Safety can be trusted to review its own officers’ actions during the Robb Elementary School shooting.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Department of Public Safety investigating how 91 of its troopers and Rangers responded to Uvalde school shooting

The department’s officers made up nearly one-fourth of the 376 law enforcement members who responded to Texas’ deadliest school shooting. Announcement of the inquiry came one day after a report criticized police response to the massacre.

The Independent UK

Damning report, new footage show chaos of Uvalde response

A damning report and hours of body camera footage laid bare the chaotic response to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school

France 24

Report on Uvalde school shooting describes 'egregiously poor decision-making'

Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a damning investigative report released Sunday.

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Report details ‘systemic failures,’ ‘egregious’ decisions in Uvalde shooting response

DALLAS — For families in Uvalde, Sunday brought with it the weight of the most exhaustive account of their loved one’s final moments yet. In a long-awaited, 77-page report, a Texas House committee told them there is not one person to blame, but instead a long series of “systemic failures…

Tribune News Service

NTSB: Dad, not 13-year-old son, was driving truck that hit van and killed 9 in Texas

A father, and not his 13-year-old son, was driving a pickup truck involved in a fatal crash in West Texas earlier this year, federal investigators said Thursday, adding that the man had methamphetamine in his system.

WEKU

Uvalde mayor says police didn't get an early chance to end the school massacre

Mayor Don McLaughlin disputed a new report that alleges missed chances to quickly end the deadly May 24 attack at a Texas elementary school.

The Texas Tribune

“Nobody’s giving us any answers”: Uvalde families demand details of shooting investigation at City Council meeting

Uvalde’s mayor said city officials could be prosecuted for releasing details of the investigation. Pete Arredondo, the City Council member and school district police chief, was absent for the second straight meeting.

Tribune News Service

How active shooter training for law enforcement compares to the failures in Uvalde

ATHENS, Texas — Three officers moved serpentine down a tiled hallway lined with rows of stacked metal lockers — handguns held low, at the ready.

Tribune News Service

Embattled Uvalde schools police chief placed on leave as investigations continue

AUSTIN, Texas — Uvalde Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who has faced blistering criticism for his decision to keep officers at bay while a school shooter was in a classroom with children, was placed on administrative leave late Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Texas state senator sues DPS for Uvalde shooting records

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas state senator representing Uvalde sued the Texas Department of Public Safety Wednesday for refusing to disclose records related to the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting.

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