Uvalde (Tex)
Uvalde Teacher Recounts Harrowing Assault Inside Classroom
UVALDE, Texas — The first shots came from the hallway outside the classroom. Arnulfo Reyes, a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary School, quickly remembered the active shooter training he had rehearsed so many times and told his 11 students to lie under their desks and “act like you are asleep.” A black shadow appeared at […]
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Police Response to Uvalde Shooting Was ‘Abject Failure,’ Says Steven McCraw
AUSTIN, Texas — The head of the Texas State Police on Tuesday offered a pointed and emphatic rebuke of the police response to a shooting last month at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, calling it “an abject failure” that ran counter to decades of training. In his comments before a special State Senate committee […]
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New Documents Show Uvalde Police Waited to Confront Gunman
AUSTIN, Texas — Heavily armed officers delayed confronting a gunman in Uvalde, Texas, for more than an hour even though supervisors at the scene had been told that some trapped with him in two elementary school classrooms needed medical treatment, a new review of video footage and other investigative material shows. Instead, the documents show, […]
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Matthew McConaughey Pleads for New Gun Control
WASHINGTON — The actor Matthew McConaughey, a native son of Uvalde, Texas, took the lectern in the White House briefing room on Tuesday and spoke of learning, in his boyhood, “to revere the power and the capability” of a gun. He then told of the horror he felt at losing 19 school children in his […]
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For Families in Uvalde, Laws Limit Holding Police Accountable
In the aftermath of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, parents and community members have clamored for accountability, asking how officers allowed a gunman to remain inside a locked classroom with injured students for more than an hour. But any legal remedy could be difficult to achieve. A civil lawsuit would […]
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How the Police Response in Uvalde Broke Down: No Radio, Old Tactics
One child shouted, “I’m shot,” catching the attention of the gunman. He came back to the spot where the child was lying and shot the student again, killing him, Khloie said. Chief Arredondo arrived at 11:35 a.m., as the first officers began moving into the hallway outside the classroom door. Two minutes later, a lieutenant […]
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Uvalde Teacher Spoke With Husband, a Police Officer, Before She Died
The situation prompted Don McLaughlin, the mayor of Uvalde and a staunch conservative, to request a Justice Department investigation over the weekend, and led a statewide law enforcement union to issue a statement supporting that inquiry, in part, because “sources that Texans once saw as ironclad and completely reliable have now been proven false.” The […]
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Why the Police Took 78 Minutes to Stop the Uvalde Gunman
sabrina tavernise From The New York Times, I’m Sabrina Tavernise. This is The Daily. [music] Four days after the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the explanation for how the police responded kept shifting. Now a clearer picture has emerged. Today: My colleague, David Goodman, on why officers waited so long before storming the classrooms where the […]
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In Uvalde Shooting, a Son Was Lost, a Daughter Saved
“You could tell by his smile,” she said. “He was happy.” The gunman attacked Josecito’s room first, then an adjoining one. His bullets also spread near Andrea’s classroom, where she told her grandparents she saw a teacher get shot moments before she fled, climbing through a window. A local newspaper photographer captured a haunting image […]
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