Uvalde shooting

Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with an AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor ...

McLaughlin has accused DPS of minimizing its involvement in the response and releasing inaccurate timelines. Officials said the 77 minutes of footage they are preparing to release this weekend does not contain images of children in the classroom. State authorities have cast Arredondo as the on-scene commander and said his errors delayed police killing the gunman. Among them are how schools police Chief Pete Arredondo came to the forefront of the massive law enforcement response involving numerous local, state and federal agencies. Hours after the video was published, some residents at a Uvalde City Council meeting said they had not been able to bring themselves to watch it. “The parents could have seen them one last time as they were dying.”

A surveillance video showing a long delay by Texas police and federal agents before they acted to stop the mass shooting at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School ...

Law enforcement officials have been roundly criticized for their handling of the rampage and especially for waiting more than an hour before confronting Ramos. said Angel Garza, whose daughter was killed in the shooting. It was part of a string of mass shootings across the United States that have renewed debate over gun laws and mental health. They take cover at the end of a hallway leading to the two classrooms targeted by the shooter. The video "is deeply, deeply concerning. They not only objected to having to see the minutes before their loved ones were gunned down, but also to witnessing the long delay before officers confronted and killed the gunman.

The failure of the police response to the Uvalde shooting came into even sharper focus Tuesday afternoon, with the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE's ...

The media’s release of the leaked video is “one of the most chicken things I’ve ever seen,” Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said Tuesday. But the media outlets said that once they obtained the video—which Gov. Greg Abbott, among other Texas state leaders, had called on law enforcement to release—they felt publishing it was in the public’s best interest. The failure of the police response to the Uvalde shooting came into even sharper focus Tuesday afternoon, with the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE’s publication of leaked surveillance footage from inside the school.

A delayed police response to the May 24 school shooting has been described and debated, but a new 77-minute video showing it in painful detail has rekindled ...

“It was hurtful, to think a video was out and they were not ready for it,” he said. The video did not contain footage of officers confronting and shooting the gunman, nor any images of victims. The door had been “unsecured,” Mr. McCraw, the director of the Department of Public Safety, said during the legislative hearing. A link to the Austin newspaper’s article about the video appeared on Jesus Rizo’s phone Tuesday afternoon. Mr. McCraw, during a lengthy hearing in the State Senate last month, laid the blame for what he called an “abject failure” of police response squarely at the feet of Chief Arredondo. The chief has not spoken publicly, but told The Texas Tribune that he did not consider himself the incident commander. So when the video was published suddenly on Tuesday, it came as a shock. He blamed the delay on the need to locate a key to the classroom where the gunman was holed up, though it has never been certain that the door was locked. They were supposed to be there to protect the families, to protect the babies.” The video does not contain images of the victims. “It’s horrible, as far as police response,” said State Senator Roland Gutierrez, who represents the area and has been pressing for more information to be released. But dozens of other videos, including from the body cameras of officers inside and outside the school, have yet to be made public. “They went to where they were supposed to be.

Group of protesters march with signs calling for gun control. Advocate are calling for universal background checks for guns and an assault weapons ban in the ...

The video has infuriated the parents of kids who were killed in the massacre. A total of 19 children and two teachers died in the attack in Texas by a man armed with a military-style semiautomatic rifle. Survivors ofand relatives of people killed in them have pleaded with politicians to ban the powerful assault weapons used in those massacres.

The release this week of 82 minutes of school surveillance video from the May massacre in Uvalde, Texas, is fueling scrutiny over what, if any, consequences ...

"Not just did they allow it to occur, but did they make it worse?" "The easy way to understand this is: Did police create the danger or make the existing danger worse?" "In some ways, that's the easiest to imagine in a case like this because all they have to do to be administratively liable, sanctioned or disciplined is violate policies or training," he said. The agency trains first responders across the country in response to "active attack situations." It appears no lawsuits have been filed against law enforcement in which the claim relates to the quality of the police response, though a San Antonio attorney said in late June he plans to file such a suit by mid-July. The county district attorney declined to comment, and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers didn't respond to a request for comment. Spokespersons for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, the school district itself and the Uvalde Police Department also didn't respond. "The odds are slim that they would actually bring charges and have the charges stick," she said. "The caretaker statute applies to teachers: They have to affirmatively safeguard (the) well-being of kids. When an officer fires their gun or responds to a chaotic mass-casualty incident, police departments typically conduct internal reviews or invite third parties to do so, with their sights set on determining whether departmental rules were followed before and after the event and the roles each officer played. "We only punish an omission -- a failure to do something -- when there's a specific legal requirement, a legal duty, for someone to do what they've failed to do," Stoughton said. Others have declined to answer questions about their role in the emergency response.

A police officer checking his phone during the Uvalde school shooting on May 24, 2022, was Ruben Ruiz, husband of victim Eva Mireles.

Social media users zoomed in on the image and noticed that the phone’s lock screen contained a “Punisher” logo with American flag colors.Police in Uvalde have been heavily criticized for their response to the Robb Elementary shooting because they waited more than Joe Moody, a Texas state legislator from El Paso, for example, claimed it was Ruiz: The harrowing footage shows the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, walking the hallway and entering classrooms, where gunfire can then be heard. But others claimed the person pictured was not Ruiz, but was instead a different officer from a different department. But after it went viral, with angry comments about an officer checking his phone during an active shooter situation at an elementary school, some interjected to claim that the officer was Ruben Ruiz, whose wife, a teacher, was also inside the school. In the footage, an officer in the hallway can be seen with a handgun drawn, who at one point pulls a cell phone out of his pocket and looks at the screen.

Uvalde leaders and residents were at odds over surveillance footage showing officers' delayed response inside Robb Elementary.

She said the City Council should demand answers and “step on some toes” if necessary. Families “were going to see the video, they didn’t need to see the gunman coming in and hear the gunshots,” McLaughlin said. Martinez said his 8-year-old son was at Robb Elementary during the shooting. State Rep. Dustin Burrows, Republican chairman of a committee investigating the shooting, said earlier Tuesday that the panel planned to show the video to victims' families Sunday, then release it. Department of Public Safety officials supported release of the video, saying it would promote transparency without interfering with investigations. Mayor Don McLaughlin blasted the Statesman and TV station KVUE for releasing the video Tuesday afternoon before family members could see it.

Private schools in San Antonio and in Uvalde are seeing a huge uptick in enrollment following the Robb Elementary shooting.

A secretary inside will need to buzz you in. And that’s a large room,” Quidley said. The one door in and out of McCauley Christian Academy is always locked. The Archdiocese of San Antonio launched a campaign to raise money to pay for tuition at Sacred Heart. That recombination with a large donation will accommodate for up to 100 additional students. “Sometimes more than one a day, meeting with more than one family a day,” Michelle Miller, the administrator at the school, said. SAN ANTONIO – A new school year means new buildings and new security for the city of Uvalde.

WASHINGTON: A surveillance video showing a long delay by Texas police and federal agents before they acted to stop the mass shooting at Uvalde's Robb ...

said Angel Garza, whose daughter was killed in the shooting. Law enforcement officials have been roundly criticised for their handling of the rampage and especially for waiting more than an hour before confronting Ramos. The video "is deeply, deeply concerning. The sound of gunfire is then heard for more than two minutes. Advertisement They not only objected to having to see the minutes before their loved ones were gunned down, but also to witnessing the long delay before officers confronted and killed the gunman.

The visual evidence circulated as alleged proof of law enforcement's poor response to the mass shooting that led to the deaths of 19 children and two ...

For example, within days of the deadly incident, Facebook users were sharing a highly misleading post about the gunman under the title, “ More oddities re: TX School Shooter.” The viral copypasta was not about defending the shooter from scrutiny. We have also reached out to the city of Uvalde to ask whether he was was employed by the city, and/or a member of its police department. We have reached out to the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office to ask whether the man in the checkered shirt was an employee, and, if so, whether he was a sworn officer. (The video below begins at that moment.) The clip was obtained exclusively by the Austin American-Statesman and local TV-station, KVUE. We previously published a number of stories that looked into various rumors about the Uvalde school shooting. Instead, he wore a checkered shirt underneath a vest that had the stitched word “SHERIFF” on it.

The Statesman interviewed five law enforcement experts who were shocked at what they saw, calling police actions “disastrous” and “inexcusable.”

“But if policy isn't clear about how to react in these situations, then they need to clear up the policy. “All our active shooter training says that even if you have two guys on scene, those two guys breach, make entry and engage the shooter,” Gomez said. Fletcher and Acevedo shared similar sentiments, adding that “if an assault rifle of this caliber is intimidating enough to force officers to retreat then something should be done about that." We are committed to our rank-and-file members in Uvalde and committed to ensuring all officers who wear the badge are provided with all tools and training required to carry out the most dangerous of missions." “You have an obligation as a police officer to put yourself in front of violence over innocent people,” Fletcher told the Statesman. “Having guns being fired toward you or near you is very frightening, and anyone who says it's not is lying. “It’s consistent with what we were told it would show, but it is still jarring to watch it in person and see what actually did not take place. Kimberly said he understands the fight-or-flight response kicks in when the officers first approached the shooter from behind a closed door. But as a police officer you have to be prepared to be afraid and then continue to act — that's the definition of courage. Those officers initially approach a classroom door, but are fired upon through the door and run back down the hallway. More than an hour passes as local, state and federal officers gather in the hallway but do not attempt to enter the classroom even after hearing more gunshots. And there are cops that had vests, had helmets on, and shields, and they waited for an hour and 17 minutes to assault those classrooms. “I can only imagine, and what I was imagining when I watched this, is the screams of children and teachers as they are being shot.

A Texas newspaper on Tuesday (July 12) posted video of police and federal agents responding to the shooting at an Uvalde elementary school in May, ...

McCraw said family members of the slain and wounded should have seen it first. They take cover at the end of a hallway leading to the two classrooms targeted by the shooter. The committee has said that Uvalde District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee objected to the release.

I couldn't say nothing seeing this man, who's lost everything, maligned as if he was indifferent or actively malicious,” Rep. Joe Moody, a member of the ...

But sources involved in the shooting investigations, who are not law enforcement, said there is more to the story. A second portion of the hallway surveillance video also drew widespread criticism. The surprise release of the hallway surveillance video on Tuesday reached an audience already bracing for evidence of profound police incompetence. To those who haven’t bothered to read even the news that’s been reported in your rush to judgment, he attempted to engage but was removed from the building and disarmed. Ruiz, standing in the hallway with his pistol drawn, was unable to get to her. But to Uvalde residents and officials investigating the shooting, the footage showed something else.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday said the police response to a the mass shooting inside a Uvalde, Texas elementary school in May was “indefensible” and ...

See All We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. “The 70-plus minutes they waited, it is heartbreaking, and I think it is indefensible.”

The surveillance video showing the Robb Elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers is putting into focus testimony given by the ...

Police and psychology experts weigh in on what may have led to nearly two dozen shooting and bombing threats at Hamilton schools over 18 days, ...

Do they feel like they're included in the environment?" Do they feel like they're cared for? Unrelated shooting threats were also reported in the Greater Toronto Area and Windsor. Do students feel like they belong? There may even have been multiple factors behind each one, he said. Hamilton schools faced 23 shooting or bombing threats between late May and mid-June, leading to several charges.

After surveillance video was released from the Uvalde shooting, further questions started to circulate regarding why the Uvalde police didn't act sooner.

If I’m in charge of that operation, I’m not going to give him a chance to use the hand sanitizer because he would have been engaging the bad guy,” del Carmen said. I was shot three times saving the life of a deputy sheriff, so I get it. It’s the clip when an officer gets hand sanitizer and rubs his hands while waiting.