The police chief of Uvalde, Texas, is set to resign—effective April 6—just days after a city council report cleared several officers who responded to the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School of wrongdoing. Uvalde Mayor Cody Smith announced Chief Daniel Rodriguez’s resignation in a statement while thanking him for his 26 years of service […]
The families of the victims of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, are incensed over a report absolving the police of wrongdoing in their response. Jesse Prado is a private investigator and retired Austin Police Department detective. The city reportedly paid him $100,000 to investigate the police response to the shooting. He […]
Parents and relatives of victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, called for accountability from the local police at a press conference in the Texas town on Thursday after the DOJ issued a scathing report about responders’ tactical and leadership mistakes while attempting to pursue the gunman on the morning of the […]
The Justice Department on Jan. 18 released its report on the Uvalde school shooting of May 2022. They concluded that the police response was a failure, and lives would have been saved had officers followed proper steps. Congress voted to avoid a shutdown and extend government funding until early March. It was the third government […]
A damning federal report details why officers failed to respond to the 2022 Uvalde school shooting that killed 21. New documents suggest that the Chinese regime knew about the coronavirus earlier than they admitted. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) says they are guilty of leaking the virus. Republican and Democrat leaders are speaking out about their […]
China’s communist regime reportedly spread AI-generated fake videos of Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen just ahead of the self-ruled island’s recent vote to elect her successor. Find out more about the potential impact of AI “deepfakes” on the approaching U.S. presidential election. The U.S. Department of Justice released a highly critical report Thursday on the police […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said the 2022 mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, could have been stopped sooner, describing the law enforcement response as a “failure.” A DOJ report, the most comprehensive federal accounting of the maligned police response to the May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary School, catalogs a sweeping […]
In this episode, Jay Dominguez shares his song, Crayons From Heaven, which was written in tribute to the 19 children and two adults killed in the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. We’ll hear from Sandra Torres, the mother of 10-year-old Eliahna, one of the young victims. In addition, Michael Stevens, President of the Uvalde […]
SAN ANTONIO—The teenage cousin of the gunman responsible for the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has been arrested after his family told police he was trying to buy a gun and “do the same thing,” court records show. Police in San Antonio took the 17-year-old cousin into custody Monday on charges of making threats […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 24 filed a formal notification with the Federal Election Commission that he is running for president. DeSantis, whose entry into the race has been awaited for months, is expected to publicly announce his candidacy at 6 p.m. on the Twitter social media platform with Elon Musk. Meanwhile, his top […]
While conducting a safety audit of schools in Uvalde, Texas, an inspector posing as an intruder was able to gain access to a school cafeteria through a door that did not properly lock, the school district’s superintendent said at a school board meeting Monday. Auditors tested three schools in Uvalde in December, and while two […]
Survivors of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, have filed a $27 billion class-action lawsuit against multiple law enforcement officials in the state. This comes six months after the killings, which were the deadliest U.S. school shooting in almost a decade. Nineteen children and two teachers we killed by the gunman in May. The lawsuit was filed […]
WASHINGTON—The last conversation Sandra Torres had with her 10-year-old daughter was about her nervous excitement over whether she’d make the all-star softball team. Hours later, Eliahna Torres was one of 19 children and two teachers fatally shot at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. With little closure and few answers about law enforcement’s 77-minute wait […]
DALLAS—The Uvalde officer who was leading the city’s police department during the hesitant law enforcement response to an elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers has stepped down, a city spokeswoman said. Lt. Mariano Pargas retired on Thursday afternoon after 18 years working for the city, according to spokeswoman Gina Eisenberg. She […]
Colonel Steven McGraw, the Texas Department of Public Safety’s top official, delivers an update to the Texas Public Safety Commission on DPS officers’ actions responding to the May massacre at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school. Relatives of victims are expected to speak at the meeting.
Hal Harrell, superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) in Texas, has officially retired after the Uvalde school board unanimously voted to accept his decision on Wednesday. The board on Wednesday voted for Gary Patterson to serve as the interim superintendent until a permanent replacement is found. Harrell, a 30-year employee of the school district, announced on Oct. […]
UVALDE, Texas—Uvalde’s school district superintendent announced Monday he plans to resign by the end of the academic year, following months of community outrage over the handling of a mass shooting at a local school. “My heart was broken on May 24th,” Hal Harrell said in a statement. The Uvalde school board voted unanimously Monday evening […]
The Uvalde school district suspended its entire school police force on Oct. 7, months after the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 people. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is declaring a state of emergency over the influx of illegal immigrants arriving on buses from border states.
The school district’s police department in Uvalde has been suspended, and the acting police chief placed on administrative leave, according to an announcement by Anne Marie Espinoza, spokesperson for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD). “Recent developments have uncovered additional concerns with department operations,” Espinoza wrote in an Oct. 7 email. “As a result […]
