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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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The active-shooter scene this time wasn’t from a school in a faraway town like Uvalde, Texas, but rather right down the street at the Central Visual & Performing Arts dual high school complex right across the street from Tower Grove Park. The scenes of ambulance gurneys carting away victims and…

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

The officer becomes the first member of the state police force to lose their job in the fallout over the hesitant response to the May school attack that killed 19 children and two teachers.

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

Department of Public Safety Sgt. Juan Maldonado is the first state police officer fired in the aftermath of a botched police response to the shooting. He was the highest-ranking state trooper to initially respond to Robb Elementary School.

The gun safety law allocates $100 million for a Department of Justice grant program for school districts to invest in safety programs and technology. Twenty-eight Texas school districts were awarded grants through the program, totaling almost $8 million.

Official now under investigation for delayed response

The school board also named Gary Patterson as the interim superintendent, but didn’t say when he would start or Harrell would depart.

In the wake of the devastating shooting in Uvalde, Texas, one of the latest tragedies in a decadeslong surge of violence in schools, some state lawmakers are embracing a bipartisan measure that skirts divisive gun debates: school maps and blueprints.