{"id":1494887,"date":"2022-05-27T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494887"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:59:48","slug":"texas-authorities-grilled-over-response-to-active-shooter-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-authorities-grilled-over-response-to-active-shooter-live-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Authorities Grilled Over Response to Active Shooter (Live Updates)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<article class=\"article-item is-pinned\" id=\"post-137\" data-post-id=\"2648f58\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said Friday, when asked why police at Robb Elementary School didn\u2019t engage the shooter immediately, said \u201cthe on-scene commander at the time believed that it had transitioned from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/mass-murder\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_137_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">active shooter<\/a> to a barricaded subject.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decision was made on the scene \u2013 I wasn\u2019t there &#8212; that this was a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject,\u201d he continued. \u201cAt that point, that was the decision, that was the thought process.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCraw later said \u201cfrom the benefit of hindsight from where I am sitting now, that of course it was not the right decision, it was a wrong decision, period, there was no excuse for that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t there but I\u2019m just telling you from what we know, that we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Obviously, based upon the information we have, there were children in that classroom that were at risk,&#8221; McCraw also said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-136\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 13:53:23 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">McCraw: There was a belief there \u2018may not be anybody living anymore\u2019 inside Uvalde classroom<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said Friday that when officers were responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_136_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Robb Elementary School<\/a><br \/>\n, \u201cthere was a barrage \u2013 hundreds of rounds were pumped in, in four minutes,\u201d into two classrooms inside the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny firing afterwards was sporadic and it was at the door,\u201d McCraw continued. \u201cSo the belief is that there may not be anybody living anymore and that the subject is now trying to keep law enforcement at bay or enticing them to come in and suicide [by cop].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCraw made the remark after saying the incident commander on-scene, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief of Police Pete Arredondo, made a decision to transition the law enforcement response to the event toward a barricaded subject situation, and away from an active shooter one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCraw later called it the \u201cwrong decision, period.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-135\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p>\n<time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 13:22:02 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">McCraw: Uvalde incident commander was \u2018convinced there was no more threat to the children&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said Friday that the on-scene commander Tuesday \u201cwas convinced at the time that there was no more threat to the children\u201d and that responding officers &#8220;had time to organize with the proper equipment\u201d to go into the classroom where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tactical-team-prevented-from-entering-school-earlier\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_135_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Salvador Ramos was barricaded<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He made the remark while answering questions as to why police did not engage Ramos sooner than they did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cTexas embraces and teaches the active shooter doctrine,\u201d McCraw later said. \u201cAs long as there\u2019s kids, as long as there&#8217;s somebody firing, you go to the gun, you find them, you neutralize them, period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are some nuances with transitioning to a barricaded subject and also transitioning to a hostage situation,\u201d McCraw also said. \u201cAnd, of course, that the decision at the scene was that this is still a barricaded subject, it did not go back to an active shooter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-134\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 13:00:35 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Map revealed of Salvador Ramos\u2019 movements inside Uvalde elementary school<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nTexas authorities released a map Friday showing gunman Salvador Ramos\u2019 path of entry after arriving at Robb Elementary School in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_134_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>, on Tuesday, where he killed 19 children and two teachers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-133\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 12:55:21 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Tactical team prevented from entering school earlier by local Uvalde police: report<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The tactical team that killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/mass-murder\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_133_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde school shooter Salvador Ramos<\/a> reportedly arrived at the school earlier than was previously known and was delayed in entering the building Ramos was barricaded inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two officials briefed on the situation told the New York Times that specialized Border Patrol agents arrived at Robb Elementary School between 12 p.m. and 12:10 p.m. which is roughly 30 minutes earlier than previously thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the officials say that the Uvalde Police Department held the Border Patrol agents back from going inside.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tactical-team-prevented-from-entering-school-earlier\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_133_article2\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nTactical team prevented from entering school earlier by local Uvalde police: report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-132\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 12:53:53 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Sister of Uvalde police officer says cops &#8216;did not retreat&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A Texas woman whose brother is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_132_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde police officer<\/a><br \/>\n said cops did not retreat from Robb Elementary School as a gunman attacked a fourth-grade classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Chapa, whose sister is a teacher at the school, joined &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; Friday to share what she has learned from her siblings about the attack and police response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did not retreat until the shooter was down. They were in there the entire time. People don&#8217;t understand, people think nobody was inside during that time. They were inside, they just couldn\u2019t get to the shooter. The shooter would come out and shoot at them. There was no way for them to just go in there and shoot,&#8221; said Chapa.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/texas-school-shooting-sister-uvalde-officer-police-retreat\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_132_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Sister of Uvalde police officer says cops &#8216;did not retreat&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-131\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 12:50:44 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Police face questions over timeline of events surrounding Uvalde school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Law enforcement officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_131_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a> are facing increased scrutiny over their response to a shooting that left 19 children and two faculty members dead as questions continue to rise regarding how quickly police responded to the crime and neutralized the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/police-face-questions-over-timeline-of-uvalde-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_131_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Police face questions over timeline of events surrounding Uvalde school shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-130\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 12:48:54 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">McCraw: &#8216;If I thought it would help, I would apologize&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, when fielding questions from reporters about the police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting, said Friday that &#8220;if I thought it would help, I would apologize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-129\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 12:47:28 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Schools chief of police was in charge at time of shooting, Texas DPS says<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw revealed Friday that the chief of police of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District was the on-scene commander at the time of the Robb Elementary School shooting on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-128\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 12:37:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Responding officer drove by hiding gunman before he entered Uvalde school<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said Friday that an officer responding to a report of a man with a gun at Robb Elementary drove past shooter Salvador Ramos prior to the 18-year-old unleashing his rampage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He] sped to what he thought was the man with the gun \u2013 to the back of the school \u2013 to what turned out to be a teacher and not the suspect,\u201d McCraw said. \u201cIn doing so he drove right by the suspect who was hunkered down behind a vehicle where he began shooting at the school.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-127\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 12:18:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Responding officers breached Uvalde classroom door using key provided by janitor<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said Friday that the officers who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting on Tuesday breached the door of the classroom where gunman Salvador Ramos was hiding in after obtaining a key from a janitor on the property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-126\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 12:10:54 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nTexas school shooter fired out \u2018at least\u2019 100 rounds during incident<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said Friday that Robb Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos fired off \u201cat least\u201d 100 rounds on Tuesday, based on audio evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCraw said the door in which Ramos entered the school had been propped open by a teacher there prior to him crashing a vehicle near the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-125\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 11:35:28 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to skip NRA Houston convention<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick announced Friday that he canceled his scheduled appearance at the National Rifle Association\u2019s annual meeting in Houston in order to &#8220;focus on the families&#8221; affected by the Uvalde school shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/greg-abbott\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_125_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a> said he would not appear in person at the event, instead opting to deliver a video message instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;After prayerful consideration and discussion with NRA officials, I have decided not to speak at the NRA breakfast this morning,&#8221; Patrick said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-nra-houston-convention\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_125_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to skip NRA Houston convention<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-124\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 11:32:33 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Officials give an update on Uvalde, Texas school shooting investigation<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6306896648112#sp=show-clips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas will give an update<\/a> at 12 p.m. ET on the Robb Elementary School shooting investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-123\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 10:57:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Timeline of massacre that left at least 19 children, 2 teachers dead<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nMore details are emerging Friday surrounding the timeline of the mass shooting at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_123_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas elementary school<\/a> Tuesday that left at least 19 children and two teachers dead.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected gunman has been identified by authorities as 18-year-old Uvalde, Texas, resident Salvador Ramos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-elementary-school-shooting-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_123_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Timeline of massacre that left at least 19 children, 2 teachers dead<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-122\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 10:17:58 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Robb Elementary School student discharged from hospital after being injured in shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A 10-year-old girl who was injured Tuesday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_122_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde school shooting<\/a> has been discharged Friday, according to University Hospital in San Antonio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe hospital says it is still treating a 10-year-old girl in serious condition and a 9-year-old girl in good condition, as well as the 66-year-old grandmother of shooter Salvador Ramos, who officials say is in serious condition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-121\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 09:54:45 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">New York teen arrested for \u2018threatening to commit a mass shooting\u2019<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/northeast\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_121_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Suffolk County, New York<\/a><br \/>\n, announced Friday that a 16-year-old has been arrested \u201cafter he made threats on social media about committing a mass shooting\u201d at Bellport High School in Brookhaven.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 16 year old posted on his Instagram story threatening to commit a mass shooting in Bellport on May 26,\u201d police said in a statement. \u201cMultiple people called 911. Fifth Squad detectives, along with the assistance of Computer Crimes detectives and Fifth Precinct Crime Section officers arrested the teen at his home in Bellport at 7:45 p.m.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say they did not find weapons at his house but the teen was charged with Making a Terroristic Threat and Aggravated Harassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is set to be arraigned in local district court Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-120\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 09:22:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">United States Marshals Service describes their response to Uvalde school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nThe United States Marshals Service has released a statement Friday describing their response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/mass-murder\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_120_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Robb Elementary School shooting<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 12:10pm, the first group of Deputy U.S. Marshals from Del Rio arrived from nearly 70 miles away to assist federal, state, and local law enforcement already on scene,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that those Marshals then entered the school to assist a Border Patrol tactical response unit &#8220;and other law enforcement already engaging with the shooter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These Deputy U.S. Marshals also rendered emergency trauma first aid for multiple victims,&#8221; the U.S. Marshals statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt continued by saying that &#8220;additional Deputy U.S. Marshals were asked to expand and secure the official law enforcement perimeter around the school&#8221; and that &#8220;Deputy marshals never arrested or placed anyone in handcuffs while securing the crime scene perimeter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our deputy marshals maintained order and peace in the midst of the grief-stricken community that was gathering around the school,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;Our hearts are heavy with sorrow and sadness at this horrific crime. We send our condolences to all the victims and families affected by this tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-119\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 09:10:40 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas Gov. Abbott won&#8217;t appear at NRA convention, will visit Uvalde instead<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nTexas Gov. Greg Abbott has abandoned his plans to attend the National Rifle Association&#8217;s annual meeting this weekend and will instead appear via video and spend time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_119_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a> following a school shooting there that left 21 dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gov. Abbott will be delivering remarks via pre-recorded video to the NRA Conference,&#8221; Abbott campaign Spokesman Mark Miner said in a statement on Friday. &#8220;He will be going to Uvalde today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abbott had been scheduled to attend the convention in Houston where several prominent Republicans including Sen. Ted Cruz\u00a0 and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Several high profile figures including singers Larry Gatlin and Don McLean have canceled their appearances at the NRA conference .\n<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/texas-gov-abbott-cancels-in-person-appearance-nra-conventiontion\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_119_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Gov. Abbott won&#8217;t appear at NRA convention, will visit Uvalde instead<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-118\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 08:32:02 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Could Israeli school security methods serve as model for US schools?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>JERUSALEM, Israel \u2013 Shooting attacks on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_118_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">schools in Israel<\/a><br \/>\n are rare and the Jewish state\u2019s preventive security measures could be a helpful starting point for improved school security in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have been six terrorist attacks on Israeli schools since 1974. That low figure can be explained by the multiple layers of security Israel employs and the engagement of civil society in aiding the nation&#8217;s law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>David Hazony, a writer, and commentator on Israeli and American affairs and a father to eleven children, told Fox News Digital that the country &#8220;puts effort into identifying potential assailants through behavioral profiling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israel could not prevent attacks if its efforts were based solely on armed security guards at each school, he said. Israel &#8220;invests heavily in monitoring profiles of people,&#8221; Hazony continued.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/uvalde-shooting-israel-school-security-methods-model-us\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_118_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Could Israeli school security methods serve as model for US schools?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-117\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 08:10:56 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde survivor: \u2018I think he was aiming at me,\u2019 but chair stopped bullets<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Samuel Salinas, another 10-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/mass-murder\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_117_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Robb Elementary School mass shooting<\/a><br \/>\n survivor, says gunman Salvador Ramos shot his teacher and fellow classmates after declaring \u201cyou\u2019re all going to die.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he was aiming at me&#8230; I guess like one of the chairs were there so it blocked it,\u201d Salinas told ABC News.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said at one point during the incident, a classmate went to turn off a phone that started ringing inside a desk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-116\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 07:56:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde survivor details verbal exchange between shooter, police<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Gemma Lopez, a 10-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_116_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>, says she heard gunman Salvador Ramos say \u201cleave me alone please\u201d to law enforcement who were responding to the massacre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with ABC News, Lopez said she noticed something was wrong Tuesday when \u201cthe bullet came through the wall.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nShe says she then \u201cturned off the lights\u201d in her classroom \u2013 something she learned during lockdown drills, which she has practiced since around kindergarten.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard the officers yelling at the shooter&#8230;to put the firearm down,\u201d Lopez added, \u201cand then the shooter said \u2018leave me alone please\u2019 and then he started shooting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-115\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 06:08:53 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Off-duty CBP agent saves students, daughter after &#8216;help&#8217; text from teacher wife<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nAn off-duty\u00a0US Customs and Border Patrol agent\u00a0saved dozens of children trapped inside Robb Elementary Tuesday after his wife, a fourth-grade teacher at the school, texted him that there was an active shooter, according to a report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Help,&#8221; she wrote, &#8220;I love you.&#8221; Jacob Albarado was getting a haircut at the time.\u00a0He\u00a0borrowed a shotgun\u00a0from his barber, who came with him, and headed to where his wife and his second-grade daughter were hiding in the school.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, 8, was locked in a bathroom and his wife was underneath a desk with her students in their classroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While a CBP elite tactical team was planning to take out the shooter, Albarado coordinated with other officers to get as many children out as possible. He started in the area where his wife had said their daughter was hiding, rescuing other children and teachers along the way.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-texas-shooting-cbp-agent-saves-uvalde-students-daughter\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_115_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas school shooting: Off-duty CBP agent saves students, daughter after &#8216;help&#8217; text from teacher wife<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-114\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 05:10:46 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">What really happened during Texas school shooting?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nDaily Caller field reporter Jorge Ventura and retired police Lt. Randy Sutton join &#8216;Fox News at Night&#8217; to discuss the latest developments in the Texas school shooting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-113\" data-post-id=\"\"><\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-112\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 02:11:56 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nVentura: &#8216;Parents have been completely frustrated&#8217; with Uvalde law enforcement response<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Daily Caller field reporter Jorge Ventura and retired police Lt. Randy Sutton join &#8216;Fox News at Night&#8217; to discuss the latest developments in the Texas school shooting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-111\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 01:10:52 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Search for answers: Were there any security measures in Texas shooting?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nTexas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez joins &#8216;Fox News at Night&#8217; to piece together a timeline of events, after a press conference Thursday appeared to contradict previous statements made by officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-110\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri May 27 2022 00:37:22 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Beto O&#8217;Rourke to attend protest outside NRA convention Friday<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nTexas gubernatorial candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke announced Thursday he will attend a rally &#8220;against gun violence&#8221; outside of the NRA&#8217;s convention in Houston on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter Houston and March for Our Lives, an organization started by the Parkland shooting survivors, are among the groups joining him at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Action is the antidote to despair,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke tweeted while inviting people to the demonstration that says it seeks to hold the\u00a0&#8220;NRA and the politicians they purchase accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who O&#8217;Rourke is running against, canceled attending the convention in person and will be in Uvalde on Friday. He made pre-taped remarks to be shown at the convention.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke disrupted an Abbott press conference on Wednesday in which the governor was giving updates on the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe told the governor shootings in the state are &#8220;on you until you choose to do something different.&#8221; He was escorted from the event and heavily criticized by Republican officials.<\/p>\n<p>Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, who was sitting by Abbott at the time, called O&#8217;Rourke a &#8220;sick son of a b&#8212;-&#8221; as the Democrat walked out.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/uvalde-texas-shooting-beto-orourke-protest-houston-nra-convention\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_110_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooting: Beto O&#8217;Rourke to protest outside of Houston NRA convention<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-109\" data-post-id=\"\"><\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-108\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 23:23:39 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas school shooting suspect&#8217;s mother seen praying on front porch of her parents&#8217; home<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Adriana Reyes, the mother of\u00a0Texas school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-salvador-ramos-classroom\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_108_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">shooting suspect Salvador Ramos<\/a>, was praying on the front porch of her parents&#8217; Uvalde home on Thursday evening, the same home where her son allegedly shot his grandmother on Tuesday before going on a murderous rampage at an elementary school less than a mile away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reyes appeared emotional, rocking back and forth as she murmured prayers and held what looked like a rosary in her hands.\u00a0Earlier in the day on Thursday, Reyes&#8217;s father, Rolando, told Fox News Digital that his daughter is\u00a0&#8220;feeling bad for everybody,&#8221;\u00a0but added, &#8220;She lost her son, too.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reyes declined to answer questions on Thursday evening, telling Fox News Digital, &#8220;I am praying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooters-mother-seen-praying-front-porch-parents-home\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_108_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooting suspect&#8217;s mother seen praying on front porch of her parents&#8217; home<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-107\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 23:13:05 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Gov. Abbott will skip speaking in person at NRA convention Friday, going back to Uvalde instead<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott plans to skip going to the NRA convention in Houston in person on Friday in favor of returning to Uvalde three days after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>He will hold a press conference in the town on resources available to those affected by the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, before he heads back to Uvalde, the governor will pre-tape remarks to be shown at the convention.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former President Donald Trump still plan to attend. Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Dan Crenshaw both said earlier this week they told the NRA before this week\u2019s shooting they would have to cancel for scheduling conflicts. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beto O\u2019Rourke, who is challenging Abbott as a Democrat, had called on the governor earlier this week to cancel his appearance and tell the NRA to hold the event in another state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-106\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 22:35:26 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Shooter was undisrupted until he entered school, DPS officials say<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety\u00a0confirmed Thursday that the shooter was &#8220;undisrupted&#8221; from the time he shot his grandmother to when he crashed his car outside the school and walked in through an unlocked back door.<\/p>\n<p>The department said a report that he was confronted outside of the school by a school police officer is untrue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect who was making entry, not accurate. He walked in undisrupted initially. So from the grandmother&#8217;s house to the party to the school into the school, he was not confronted by anybody,&#8221; Escalon said. &#8220;Right now it appears [the door] was unlocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-texas-shooter-entered-school-undisrupted-unlocked-door\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_106_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nUvalde, Texas shooter entered school undisrupted through unlocked door, DPS official says<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-105\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 21:57:42 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Lee Greenwood, Larry Gatlin drop out of NRA convention performance<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A day after &#8220;American Pie&#8221; singer Don McLean pulled out of the annual National Rifle Association convention,\u00a0Larry Gatlin,\u00a0Larry Stewart of Restless Heart and Lee Greenwood announced they are following McLean\u2019s lead and won&#8217;t be performing in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Gatlin issued a statement that was obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To my fellow sad Americans, I cannot, in good conscience, perform at the NRA convention in Houston this weekend,&#8221; his statement began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/larry-gatlin-drops-out-nra-convention-performance\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_105_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Lee Greenwood, Larry Gatlin drop out of NRA convention performance<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-104\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 21:24:32 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Active shooter survival instructor describes how Uvalde shooter gained entrance to school<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Active shooter survival instructor Michael Julian reflects on the Texas elementary school shooting on &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-103\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 20:55:15 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nUvalde shooting: Byron York rips Texas DPS for &#8216;disastrous&#8217; news conference<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Byron York ripped into the Texas Department of Public Safety on &#8220;Special Report&#8221; for leaving parents with more questions than answers after their Robb Elementary School shooting press event.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/uvalde-shooting-byron-york-texas-dps-new-conference\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_103_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Uvalde shooting: Byron York rips Texas DPS for &#8216;disastrous&#8217; news conference<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-102\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 20:34:43 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Rays, Yankees to use game coverage to spread awareness on &#8216;gun violence&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Professional sports organizations are\u00a0yet again cherry-picking tragedy\u00a0to apparently promote their own political talking points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees have partnered to use their\u00a0home broadcasts for tonight\u2019s contest\u00a0to spread awareness on gun violence.It&#8217;s just the latest black square trend that likely won&#8217;t accomplish anything.<\/p>\n<p>They just keep screaming louder.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/rays-yankees-game-coverage-spread-awareness-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_102_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Rays, Yankees to use game coverage to spread awareness on &#8216;gun violence&#8217;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-101\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 20:14:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Ford: They would have had to shoot me if my kids were in the school<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Harold Ford Jr. reflects on the Texas school shooting on &#8216;The Five.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-100\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 19:49:46 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde memorial site grows larger as mourners pay respects to victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Uvalde residents gathered Thursday at a park to mourn and pay tribute to the 19 children and two teachers who were murdered at Robb Elementary School this week.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting rampage sent shockwaves through the tight-knit town of about 16,000, where almost everyone seems to know a victim of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\nMourners laid flowers and wrote on 21 crosses that were placed around a fountain in the middle of town.<\/p>\n<p>A group called Comfort Dogs set up the crosses and attached sharpies to each one, so that residents could write notes to the fallen members of their community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-99\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 18:59:53 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Family of Texas shooting victims criticize school for neglecting security<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>UVALDE, Texas \u2013\u00a0The family members of children killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting criticized the school for neglecting security procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;They need to start putting a lot of security, more than what they have right now,&#8221; said Gilda Lopez, the grandmother of Xavier Lopez, a 10-year-old\u00a0slain during the Texas shooting. &#8220;Look what happened. We lost an angel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-shooting-victims-family-criticize-school-neglecting-security\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_99_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Family of Texas shooting victims criticize school for neglecting security<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-98\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 18:04:18 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde Border Patrol mechanic heard gunman crash truck, open fire, thought it was illegal immigrant<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>UVALDE, Texas &#8211;\u00a0A\u00a0U.S. Border Patrol\u00a0mechanic who lives in Uvalde, Texas, was at home on his lunch break Tuesday morning when a black truck sped down his quiet street at 50 to 60 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At that time, I just thought, \u2018It\u2019s an illegal,'&#8221; Miguel Zamora told Fox News Digital, noting Uvalde\u2019s close proximity to the southern border. &#8220;Here in a couple of seconds, we\u2019ll see border patrol, something like that chasing him, and I never saw anything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-border-patrol-mechanic-heard-gunman-crash-truck-open-fire-illegal-immigrant\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_98_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Uvalde Border Patrol mechanic heard gunman crash truck, open fire, thought it was illegal immigrant<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-97\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 17:48:57 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Biden to visit Uvalde to &#8216;grieve&#8217; and demand &#8216;action&#8217; on guns, White House says<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nThe White House announced Thursday that\u00a0President Biden\u00a0will visit Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s visit will take place on May 29, almost one week after alleged gunman Salvador Ramos\u00a0killed 19 students\u00a0and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-visit-uvalde-grieve-demand-action-guns\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_97_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Biden to visit Uvalde to &#8216;grieve&#8217; and demand &#8216;action&#8217; on guns, White House says<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-96\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 17:39:37 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nMeghan Markle visits Uvalde to lay white roses at memorial for Texas school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nMeghan Markle made\u00a0a surprise visit to Texas\u00a0Thursday to pay her respects to the 21 victims killed at an elementary school in Uvalde.<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of Sussex, who lives in California with her husband Prince Harry and their two children, was spotted placing a bouquet of white roses at a memorial for the victims gunned down Tuesday at Robb Elementary School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/meghan-markle-uvalde-texas-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_96_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Meghan Markle visits Uvalde to lay white roses at memorial for Texas school shooting<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-95\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 17:34:57 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde, Texas shooter entered school undisrupted through unlocked door, DPS official says<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas officials said on Thursday afternoon that the alleged school shooter was inside\u00a0a Uvalde elementary school\u00a0for one hour before being taken down by a U.S. Border Patrol tactical team member and is believed to have entered the school unobstructed without confronting a school resource officer, as previous statements suggested.<\/p>\n<p>\nVictor Escalon,\u00a0Texas Department of Public Safety\u00a0regional director for South Texas said Thursday that Salvador Ramos, the alleged school shooter, was inside for one hour before being shot and killed. Ramos allegedly killed 19 students and two teachers during the shooting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-texas-shooter-entered-school-undisrupted-unlocked-door\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_95_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Uvalde, Texas shooter entered school undisrupted through unlocked door, DPS official says<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-94\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 17:30:01 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Maker of gun used in Uvalde school shooting, Daniel Defense, pulls out of NRA event in Houston<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The company that manufactured the rifle used in a school shooting in Texas on Tuesday has canceled its plan to appear at an upcoming\u00a0National Rifle Association meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association (\u2018NRA\u2019) meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas where one of our products was criminally misused,&#8221; Steve Reed, Vice President of Marketing for Daniel Defense, told Fox News Digital in a statement Thursday. &#8220;We believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the NRA meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-gun-daniel-defense-pulls-out-nra-event-houston\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_94_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Maker of gun used in Uvalde school shooting, Daniel Defense, pulls out of NRA event in Houston<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-93\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 16:14:58 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Biden and first lady to visit Uvalde, Texas, White House says<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit Uvalde, Texas on Sunday following the tragic killing of 19 school children and two teachers, the White House announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;On Sunday, May 29, the President and the First Lady will travel to Uvalde, Texas to grieve with the community that lost twenty-one lives in the horrific elementary school shooting,&#8221; according to statement from the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Specifics on the visit and whether Biden will meet with the families of those killed were not disclosed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-92\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 16:02:03 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde, Texas, parent who knew several children killed, injured filled with anger, sadness<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>UVALDE, Texas \u2013\u00a0A Uvalde parent who knew several of the children who died and had two cousins injured in the shooting said he was sad and angry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why? Why? I mean, why our babies?&#8221; Mark Madrigal told Fox News. &#8220;Those are our children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSalvador Ramos\u00a0killed 19 children and two teachers\u00a0at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday before he was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent, according to authorities. Law enforcement has faced criticism after news reports indicated that onlookers shouted at\u00a0police to rush the school\u00a0during the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-texas-parent-knew-children-killed-injured-anger-sadness\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_92_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Uvalde, Texas, parent who knew several children killed, injured filled with anger, sadness<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-91\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 15:41:27 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde, Texas student who covered herself in classmates&#8217; blood to survive is still shaken, dad says<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>An 11-year-old reportedly smeared blood on herself and went into &#8220;survival mode&#8221; during the\u00a0Uvalde mass shooting\u00a0on Tuesday, and her father tells Fox News Digital that the quick-thinking pre-teen is still shaken after having watched her teacher and classmates gunned down.<\/p>\n<p>Miah Cerrillo, 11, survived the shooting but watched her friends and teacher being killed, according to her aunt, Blanca Rivera, who spoke with Click 2 Houston.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-texas-student-covered-classmates-blood-shaken\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_91_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Uvalde, Texas student who covered herself in classmates&#8217; blood to survive is still shaken, dad says<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-90\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 15:31:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde shooting victim families urged to sue gunmakers, but face challenge under Texas laws<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nThe families of victims from the\u00a0Uvalde school shooting\u00a0could look to sue gun manufacturer Daniel Defense over the use of their weapon in the attack, but Texas law may complicate any attempt to hold the company responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say, you know, with certainty what the families will decide to do, but there is an option to sue,&#8221; Jillian Bliss, a Texas attorney with a background in constitutional law and matters of state and federal government, told Fox News Digital. &#8220;However, under Texas law, it is a little bit more difficult than the situation with Sandy Hook to sue a gun manufacturer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-shooting-gunmakers-texas-laws\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_90_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Uvalde shooting victim families urged to sue gunmakers, but face challenge under Texas laws<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-89\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 15:05:13 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas school shooter&#8217;s grandma still hospitalized after surgery, not talking as of Wednesday: Family<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>UVALDE, Texas \u2013 The Texas woman whose grandson, Salvador Ramos, shot her in the face and then went on to kill 21 people at a Uvalde elementary school earlier this week is recovering in a hospital but is still unable to speak following surgery on Wednesday, her husband told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Rolando Reyes, Ramos&#8217; grandfather, said Thursday the suspect&#8217;s 66-year-old grandmother was awake after surgery the day before, but still could not talk.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-texas-shooters-grandma-condition-hospitalized-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_89_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Texas school shooter&#8217;s grandma still hospitalized after surgery, not talking as of Wednesday: Family<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-88\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 14:47:08 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas DPS says door to Uvalde elementary school appears to have been unlocked when gunman entered<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nThe door to the Uvalde elementary school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers appears to have been unlocked when he entered, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes earlier, Salvador Ramos crashed a pickup truck into a ditch and fired at two people outside a funeral home, Victor Escalon, the South Texas Regional Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said during a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos then went toward Robb Elementary School at 11:40 a.m. and fired &#8220;numerous&#8221; shots, Escalon said, while providing a timeline of the gunman&#8217;s movements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will find out as much as we\u00a0can why it was unlocked, or maybe\u00a0it (the door) was locked,&#8221; he said.\u00a0&#8220;But right now, it appears it was\u00a0unlocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspect walked into the school and was not confronted by a school resource officer, Escalon said. He said media reports stating otherwise were inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce inside the building, the gunman walked into a hallway and then made his way into a classroom, Escalon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four minutes later, local police\u00a0departments, Uvalde Police\u00a0Department, the Independent\u00a0School District Police\u00a0Department are inside, making\u00a0entry,&#8221; he said.\u00a0&#8220;They hear gunfire, they take\u00a0rounds, they move back, get\u00a0cover. And during that time,\u00a0they approach where the suspect\u00a0is at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The officers called for backup and additional resources while helping children and teachers in nearby classrooms evacuate the building, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A Zavala county deputy and members of the Uvalde Police Department eventually entered the classroom and killed the suspect, Escalon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to find out.\u00a0With all the different agencies\u00a0that are involved, we&#8217;re working\u00a0every angle that&#8217;s available.\u00a0We won&#8217;t stop until we get all\u00a0the answers that we possibly\u00a0can,&#8221;\u00a0he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-87\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 14:30:36 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde police chief says officers \u2018responded within minutes\u2019 to deadly shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Uvalde, Texas police Chief Daniel Rodriguez issued a statement Thursday saying his officers responded to a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School \u201cwithin minutes\u201d along school district officers amid claims that authorities waited to confront the gunman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important for our community to know that our Officers responded within minutes alongside Uvalde CISD Officers,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cResponding UPD Officers sustained gun-shot wounds from the suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said that loved ones and onlookers anxiously waiting outside the school as the\u00a0gunman was inside shooting\u00a0teachers and students\u00a0urged police who were outside to go in and try to stop the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>\nSome also suggested they take it upon themselves to attempt to overpower the gunman. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said the gunman could have been in the school for 40 minutes to an hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand questions are surfacing regarding the details of what occurred,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cI know answer will come fast enough during this trying time, but rest assured that with the completion of the full investigation, I will be able to answer all the questions that we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-86\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 14:18:19 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde school district postpones high school graduation ceremony following tragic shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The graduation ceremony for Uvalde High School has been postposed, officials said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the deepest respect for the families and our community affected by the tragedy we have experienced, the Uvalde High School Graduation Ceremony has been postponed,\u201d the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said. \u201cThis is a difficult time for everyone. Please keep all families in your prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The district canceled all remaining classes for the school year following Tuesday\u2019s mass shooting.\u00a0A new date for the ceremony has not been announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-85\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 14:02:26 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Sister of Uvalde officer: Police were inside building &#8216;entire time&#8217; trying to get &#8216;right angle&#8217; on s<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A resident of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_85_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a><br \/>\n tells Fox News Digital that police officers were on the scene and in the building the &#8220;entire time&#8221; attempting to subdue alleged school shooter Salvador Ramos as questions arise over how long it took law enforcement to neutralize the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know my brother says they were inside the building the entire time,&#8221; Patricia Chapa, who says her brother is a police officer in Uvalde, said. &#8220;They just never had him at the right angle. He had them in the wrong spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chapa added, &#8220;They were in there, they were in the hallway, they just couldn\u2019t get in there fast enough. But, they also couldn\u2019t just rush in there like people think that it was so easy for them just to run in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nQuestions have surfaced regarding the timeline of events during Tuesday\u2019s shooting, which left 19 children and 2 faculty members dead, after Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said on Wednesday that the gunman could have been in the school for 40 minutes to an hour before being shot and killed by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/sister-uvalde-officer-inside-entire-time-trying\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_85_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Sister of Uvalde officer: Police were inside building &#8216;entire time&#8217; trying to get &#8216;right angle&#8217; on shooter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-84\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 13:59:53 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Law enforcement now &#8216;examining&#8217; police response to Uvalde attack<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Law enforcement began an examination of the police response to the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_84_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police have faced scrutiny in the wake of the shooting following reports that officers waited up to an hour before breaching the classroom where attacker Salvador Ramos murdered 19 children and two teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The examination will reportedly include a timeline of events based on radio traffic from responding officers, among other factors.\n<\/p>\n<p>Juan Carranza, 24, a witness and parent of one of the victims, said he and other bystanders urged police to pursue Ramos to no avail. His daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-police-response\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_84_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Law enforcement now &#8216;examining&#8217; police response to Uvalde attack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-83\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 13:58:20 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Video shows how close Salvador Ramos crashed vehicle near Robb Elementary<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nA new video has emerged Thursday showing how close gunman Salvador Ramos crashed his vehicle before heading into Robb Elementary in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_83_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The clip, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@hugocervantes86\/video\/7101375438768901418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first posted on TikTok<\/a>, shows Ramos&#8217; truck crashed in a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>It then pans left to reveal Robb Elementary just down the road, surrounded by crime scene tape and first responder vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-82\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 13:47:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde officials to hold press conference about mass shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Uvalde officials <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6306854740112#sp=show-clips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are set to hold a press conference<\/a> a 2 p.m. ET about the Robb Elementary School shooting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-81\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 13:42:40 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Vigil to be held in Lubbock, Texas, for Uvalde shooting victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A vigil is scheduled Friday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_81_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Lubbock, Texas<\/a>, to honor the 19 children and two teachers killed in the Robb Elementary School mass shooting this week.<\/p>\n<p>The event, called &#8220;LBK Lights for Uvalde&#8221;, will be held at Charles A. Guy Park at 8:30 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees are encouraged to bring flashlights, neon lights and cellphone lights, KCBD reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-80\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 11:54:45 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Medical worker who rushed to Robb Elementary learned stepdaughter was among victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A medical assistant who rushed to Robb Elementary School in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_80_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>, on Tuesday after hearing about the shooting encountered a girl covered in blood saying \u201che shot my best friend\u201d &#8212; only to later learn she was referring to his stepdaughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Angel Garza was among those on-scene as children were fleeing the building, according to the Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2019m not hurt. He shot my best friend,\u201d one girl reportedly told Garza when he offered help. \u201cShe\u2019s not breathing. She was just trying to call the cops.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her friend was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-victims-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_80_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Amerie Jo Garza<\/a> &#8212; Angel Garza&#8217;s stepdaughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amerie was described by her family as a happy child who made the honor roll and loved to paint, draw and work in clay.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was very creative,\u201d said her grandmother Dora Mendoza. \u201cShe was my baby. Whenever she saw flowers she would draw them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The student had just gotten her first cellphone for her 10th birthday, the Associated Press reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-79\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 11:46:29 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Salvador Ramos&#8217; mom &#8216;feeling bad for everybody&#8217; but &#8216;lost her son, too&#8217;: Grandpa<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>UVALDE, Texas \u2013 The grandfather of accused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_79_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos<\/a> said Thursday his daughter \u2013 the suspect\u2019s mother \u2013 is &#8220;feeling bad for everybody,&#8221; but added: &#8220;She lost her son, too.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nRolando Reyes spoke briefly with Fox News Digital outside his Uvalde, Texas, home on Thursday morning, just days after Ramos, his 18-year-old grandson, allegedly shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at nearby Robb Elementary School before law enforcement fatally wounded him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the school massacre, Ramos allegedly shot his grandmother in the face and sent Facebook messages that stated, &#8220;I\u2019m going to shoot my grandmother,&#8221; &#8220;I\u2019ve shot my grandmother,&#8221; and then: &#8220;I\u2019m going to shoot an elementary school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-suspect-salvador-ramos-mom\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_79_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooting suspect Salvador Ramos&#8217; mom &#8216;feeling bad for everybody&#8217; but &#8216;lost her son, too&#8217;: Grandpa<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-78\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 10:10:21 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas school district closes schools after receiving \u2018credible threat of violence\u2019<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The Donna Independent School District in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_78_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Donna, Texas<\/a>, announced Wednesday night that it will be canceling school district-wide on Thursday and Friday after receiving a &#8220;credible threat of violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No details were immediately released about what type of threat was made, although the district said it is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The safety and security of our students and staff is our first priority,&#8221; the announcement said. &#8220;Classes will resume Tuesday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-closes-credible-threat-violence\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_78_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school district closes schools after receiving \u2018credible threat of violence\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-77\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 10:08:56 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Parkland father urges officials to hold threatening students accountable, rips mental health system<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The father of a Parkland shooting victim after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_77_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde school massacre<\/a> said threatening students need to be held accountable and criticized failures within the mental health care system.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Crimes need to be dealt with,&#8221; Andrew Pollack, who became a school safety advocate after his daughter was killed, told Fox News. &#8220;And when they&#8217;re not dealt with, when these kids get older, they just commit more crime, more felonies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they&#8217;re not held accountable at a young age, it&#8217;s just going to get worse,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s not going to be one gun law that&#8217;s going to work if you don&#8217;t arrest criminals for making threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/parkland-father-hold-threatening-students-accountable-mental-health-system\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_77_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Parkland father urges officials to hold threatening students accountable, criticizes mental health system<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-76\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 07:52:27 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Salvador Ramos told classroom \u2018it\u2019s time to die,\u2019 survivor says<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_76_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde mass shooting<\/a> told a classroom of children that &#8220;it\u2019s time to die,&#8221; according to a fourth-grader who survived the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chilling words allegedly uttered by Salvador Ramos inside Robb Elementary on Tuesday were revealed by a 9-year-old who spoke to KENS 5, describing how he hid under a table during the shooting rampage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He shot the next person\u2019s door. We have a door in the middle. He opened it. He came in and he crouched a little bit and he said, &#8216;It&#8217;s time to die,'&#8221; the student told the station. &#8220;When he shot, it was very loud and it hurt my ear.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-salvador-ramos-classroom\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_76_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Salvador Ramos told classroom \u2018it\u2019s time to die,\u2019 survivor says<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-75\" data-post-id=\"\"><\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-74\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 05:42:41 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Elon Musk says assault rifles should require a special permit for &#8216;extremely well vetted&#8217; people<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u00a0commented Thursday morning on gun control measures following Tuesday&#8217;s Texas elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two adults.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Musk gave his opinion that assault rifles should, at minimum, require a special permit, where the recipient is &#8220;extremely well vetted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/business-leaders\/musk-gun-control-assault-rifle-permits-extremely-well-vetted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk favors some gun control, calls for special assault rifle permits for &#8216;extremely well vetted&#8217; people<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-73\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 04:23:07 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Jose Flores, 10, &#8216;loved to laugh,&#8217; uncle says; was among the victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Jose Flores loved baseball, family and going to school, his uncle uncle Christopher Salazar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a very happy little boy,&#8221; Salazar told the Washington Post. &#8220;He loved both his parents \u2026 and loved to laugh and have fun,\u201d He \u201cloved going to school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just hours before the shooting Tuesday, Flores received an award for making the honor roll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-72\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 04:03:22 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">&#8216;Amazing&#8217; Makenna Lee Elrod, 10, was among those killed<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Makenna Lee Elrod, 10, was one of the 19 children killed in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Her aunt, \u00a0Allison McCullough, called her &#8220;beautiful, funny, smart and amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer smile would light up a room. We will carry her in our hearts and we know she is with our Lord and Savior,\u201d McCullough wrote on a fundraising page for her family.<\/p>\n<p>\nHer sister tweeted \u201cMy baby sister has finally been found in a classroom\u2026 thank you for everyone sending their love to my family and I. All I ask is that you hug your loved ones tonight and tell them you love them, you never know when you won&#8217;t have the chance to anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-71\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 03:22:07 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Mother of Texas school shooter was in disbelief about son shooting grandmother, boyfriend&#8217;s mom says<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Salvador Ramos allegedly shot his grandmother in the face on Tuesday morning, then drove to an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas and\u00a0murdered 19 children and two adults.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos\u2019s mother, Adriana Reyes, was in disbelief that her son was capable of such violence on Tuesday evening, telling her boyfriend\u2019s mother hours after the attack that she was still looking for Ramos and didn\u2019t think that the 18-year-old would shoot his grandmother, according to Maria Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>\nMaria Alvarez\u2019s son, Juan, has been dating Reyes for about a year. Reyes went to San Antonio with her wounded mother immediately following the shooting but returned to\u00a0Alvarez\u2019s home in Uvalde\u00a0looking for her boyfriend that evening, seemingly in shock about the tragedy that had just rocked the small town.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/mother-texas-school-shooter-disbelief-son-shooting-grandmother\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_71_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother of Texas school shooter was in disbelief about son shooting grandmother, boyfriend&#8217;s mom says<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-70\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 03:05:15 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Beto O\u2019Rourke criticizes Abbott for attending fundraiser after school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Beto O\u2019Rourke on Wednesday criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for attending a campaign fundraiser hours after the deadly shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead in Uvalde unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was counting dollars while they were counting bodies,\u201d O\u2019Rourke, who is running against Abbott for governor, tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott acknowledged he went to the event but said he only stopped by to say he couldn\u2019t stay because of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;On the way back to Austin, I stopped and let people know that I could not stay, that I needed to go and I wanted them to know what happened and get back to Austin so I could continue to my collaboration with Texas law enforcement,&#8221; Abbott said during a press conference, according to the Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>His team says all of his campaign events have since been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke also disrupted an Abbott press conference earlier in the day, saying the shooting \u201cis on you\u201d before he was escorted out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/beto-orourke-criticizes-abbott-attending-campaign-fundraiser-texas-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_70_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Beto O\u2019Rourke criticizes Abbott for attending campaign fundraiser after Texas school shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-69\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 01:38:27 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Loved ones and onlookers outside school urged police to go inside during shooting: &#8216;Go in there!&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Witnesses said that loved ones and onlookers anxiously waiting outside Robb Elementary on Tuesday as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-victims-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_69_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">gunman was inside shooting<\/a> teachers and students urged police who were outside the school to go in and try to stop the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>Some also suggested they take it upon themselves to try and stop him.<\/p>\n<p>\nDepartment of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said the gunman could have been in the school for 40 minutes to an hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo in there! Go in there!\u201d a woman shouted to officers soon after the shooting happened, witness Juan Carranza, 24,\u00a0said. He lives across the street from the school. \u201cThere were more of them. There was just one of him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the officers stayed outside.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Cazares went to the school after hearing about the shooting because his daughter went to school there.<\/p>\n<p>He said he suggested a group of civilians \u201crush in because the cops aren\u2019t doing anything like they are supposed to. More could have been done. They were unprepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, died in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-elementary-school-shooting-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_69_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">shooter \u201cencountered<\/a>&#8221; a school district security officer outside the school, though there were conflicting reports from authorities on whether the men exchanged gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>After running inside, the gunman fired on two arriving Uvalde police officers who were outside the building, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. The police officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>He then went inside a classroom and began killing.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman wasn\u2019t killed for the better part of an hour until a Border Patrol team tactical unit (Uvalde is near the Mexican border) arrived and shot him.<\/p>\n<p>A person who spoke on condition of anonymity said Border Patrol had trouble opening the locked door and a staff member had to get a key.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nMcCraw told reporters that 40 minutes to an hour elapsed from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer to when the tactical team shot him, though a department spokesman said later that they could not give a solid estimate of how long the gunman was in the school or when he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is law enforcement was there,&#8221; McCraw said. \u201cThey did engage immediately. They did contain (Ramos) in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-victims-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_69_article3\" rel=\"noopener\">Who are the victims killed at Uvalde elementary school?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-68\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 00:35:12 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Nevaeh Bravo was 1 of 19 children killed by gunman: &#8216;Rest in peace my sweet girl&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Nevaeh Bravo was one of 19 children killed on Tuesday when a gunman entered her Robb Elementary Classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Her death was confirmed by her cousin&#8217;s social media, according to local reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately my beautiful Nevaeh was one of the many victims from today\u2019s tragedy\u2026 Rest in peace my sweet girl, you didn\u2019t deserve this,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-victims-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_68_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nWho are the victims killed at Uvalde elementary school?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-67\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Thu May 26 2022 00:11:19 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Co-teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia among mostly child victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Co-teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia were killed when the gunman came inside their classroom and began shooting. Nineteen students as young as 8 years old were also killed.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had been a teaching team for five years at Robb Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-victims-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_67_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Who are the victims killed at Uvalde elementary school<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-66\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 23:55:07 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Teacher Irma Garcia was one of 2 teachers killed on Tuesday<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Irma Garcia was one of two teachers killed at Robb Elementary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>She taught at Robb Elementary for more than 20 years and had been a co-teacher with Eva Mireles, who also died, according to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.<\/p>\n<p>She was married with four children, according to her district biography.<\/p>\n<p>She enjoyed barbecuing with her family, listening to music and traveling to Concan, Texas. Her eldest son, Cristian was completing Marine Corps boot camp and another is a student at Texas State University. She also had two daughters, Lyliana, who is a high-schooler and Alysandra, who is in middle school.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-victims-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_66_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Who are the victims killed at Uvalde elementary school?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-65\" data-post-id=\"\"><\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-64\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 23:03:55 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Beto O&#8217;Rourke tweets from Uvalde vigil: &#8216;Won&#8217;t let anyone go through this alone&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Beto O&#8217;Rourke tweets from the Uvalde vigil Wednesday night, saying it reminds him of the 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in his hometown of El Paso that left 23 people dead. Twenty-one people, including 19 children, were killed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This community won\u2019t let anyone go through this alone,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-63\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 22:36:27 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nTools are available for risk assessment: Rubio<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio calls for a \u2018multidisciplinary\u2019 approach to preventing school shootings on \u2018Jesse Watters Primetime.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-62\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 21:33:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Candlelight vigil held for Uvalde school shooting victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Residents of Uvalde, Texas, attended a prayer vigil Wednesday evening for the 19 students and two teachers lost in the Robb Elementary School shooting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-61\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 21:30:43 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde gathers for vigil to remember mass shooting victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Mourners in Uvalde gathered Wednesday to remember the 21 victims killed in a mass shooting that has shaken the rural Texas town.<\/p>\n<p>The prayer vigil came a day after 19 schoolchildren and two teachers were gunned down Tuesday. Vigils were also held in other cities throughout the states, including San Antonio and Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a tweet hours before the vigil, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said &#8220;families are broken apart&#8221; and &#8220;hearts are forever shattered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-60\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 20:47:43 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Mother of Sandy Hook victim sends message to parents of Texas school shooting victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Sandy Hook Promise CEO Nicole Hockley, whose own son was a Sandy Hook victim, addressed the families who lost loved ones at Robb Elementary School in the Uvalde, Texas, shooting on &#8220;Your World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/mother-sandy-hook-victim-sends-message-parents-texas-school-shooting-victims\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_60_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Mother of Sandy Hook victim sends message to parents of Texas school shooting victims<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-59\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 20:44:14 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Slain Uvalde, Texas, school teacher Eva Mireles remembered as &#8216;hero&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The loved one of a teacher slain in Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0Uvalde, Texas, school shooting\u00a0\u2013 which resulted in the death of 19 elementary school kids and two adults \u2013 is remembering the woman as a &#8220;hero&#8221; as investigators continue to search for clues as to the gunman\u2019s possible motive in the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fourth grade teacher Eva Mireles &#8220;put love into everything she did \u2013 with her daughter, with her family, with the school \u2013 and I will always remember her, honestly, as a hero for doing what she did,&#8221; Amber Ybara told Fox News on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nTo read more of this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/slain-uvalde-texas-school-teacher-eva-morales-remembered\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_59_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Slain Uvalde, Texas, school teacher Eva Mireles remembered as &#8216;hero&#8217;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-58\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 18:30:44 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Border Patrol agent\u2019s cap torn by Uvalde, Texas gunman&#8217;s bullet<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A cap worn by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was struck by a bullet when he and a tactical team engaged a gunman who killed 21 people, 19 of them children, inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe shooter, identified by authorities as Salvador Ramos, 18, fired at the agent as he breached a room with other agents and a bullet struck the hat. Ramos was eventually killed.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources told Fox News the veteran agent is assigned to the Del Rio Sector in South Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the agents based in Uvalde, which sits near the U.S.-Mexico border, have children who attend the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-57\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 17:36:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Rep. Tony Gonzales responds to Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s outburst during Greg Abbott&#8217;s Uvalde shooting update<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nUVALDE, Texas \u2013\u00a0Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents Uvalde, said Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s outburst during Gov. Greg Abbot&#8217;s update on the Texas shooting was &#8220;spewing rhetoric and hate&#8221; when the community needs unity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad to see politicians try to capitalize politically off of the death of innocent children,&#8221; Gonzales, a Republican, told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>To read more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rep-tony-gonzales-beto-orourke-outburst-greg-abbott-uvalde-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_57_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Rep. Tony Gonzales responds to Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s outburst during Greg Abbott&#8217;s Uvalde shooting update<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-56\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 17:20:37 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas AG on Beto confrontation: &#8216;Republicans and Democrats should put their differences aside&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton discusses Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s outburst at the Uvalde school shooting press conference with Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-55\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 16:42:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nUvalde, Texas hospital gives update, all 15 patients from mass shooting transferred or discharged<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Uvalde Memorial Hospital on Wednesday said all the victims it received from the Robb Elementary School mass shooting were no longer in its facility.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital said it received 15 patients in the emergency room, of which 11 were children, according to an update. Of the 11 children, four were transferred to other hospitals in San Antonio and seven were discharged.<\/p>\n<p>Four adults were also treated \u2013 one was transferred and three were released.In addition to the patients that were treated, two children arrived to the hospital deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA check in the emergency room this morning indicated that none of those discharged from our emergency room yesterday had to return for further treatment overnight and currently we do not have any patients in-house that were involved in yesterday\u2019s incident,\u201d the hospital said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-54\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nFormer Democratic gubernatorial candidate\u00a0Beto O&#8217;Rourke caused a firestorm Wednesday when he interrupted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Republican, during a press conference in Uvalde to address a deadly mass shooting there.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott spoke for roughly 10 minutes and then attempted to transfer the microphone to Lt. Gov. when O&#8217;Rourke approached the stage.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke was seen pointing at the stage and arguing with officials before being kicked out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-53\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 16:13:55 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Beto O\u2019Rourke was out of line and disrespectful: Texas DPS Lt. Olivarez<\/h2>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-52\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 16:12:45 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Biden to visit Uvalde, Texas after deadly mass shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>President Biden is planning to visit Uvalde, Texas where a gunman killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Administration officials told Reuters the trip could be as early as this weekend. White House officials were still working out the details.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring a Tuesday night address to the nation, Biden called for changes to gun laws and expressed his heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a hollowness in your chest, you feel like you&#8217;re being sucked into it, never able to get out. Suffocating. It&#8217;s never quite the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-51\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 15:50:37 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Who is the Texas school shooter? What we know<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Salvador Ramos, the alleged gunman accused of shooting his grandmother and then targeting dozens of victims \u2013\u00a0ultimately killing 19 children and two adults\u00a0\u2013 at a Texas elementary school was known to be a loner who had quit his job just weeks before unleashing his attack, Fox News has learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nRamos, an 18-year-old Uvalde, Texas, resident, legally purchased two AR-platform rifles on May 17 and May 20, and bought 375 rounds of ammunition on May 18, Texas Sen. John Whitmire told Fox affiliate KCPQ-TV, citing a briefing from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooter-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_51_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Who is the Texas school shooter? What we know<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-50\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 15:40:49 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">NRA says Uvalde, Texas school mass shooting work of \u2018lone, deranged criminal\u2019<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The country\u2019s most influential gun-rights group issued a statement offering its sympathies to the families and victims impacted by Tuesday mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOur deepest sympathies are with the families and victims involved in this horrific and evil crime,\u201d the National Rifle Association said Wednesday. \u201cAlthough an investigation is underway and facts are still emerging, we recognize this was the act of a lone, deranged criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group also praised school officials as well as first responders and others who have offered their support and services to the victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA will host its annual Meetings &#038; Exhibits conference in Houston from Friday through Sunday. Former President Trump is slated to speak at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we gather in Houston, we will reflect on these events, pray for the victims, recognize out patriotic members, and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure,\u201d the group said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-49\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 15:28:38 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">FBI Director Christopher Wray issues statement to Uvalde community; says FBI \u2018stands with you\u2019<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday said he feels for the families of the victims and the entire community of Uvalde, Texas impacted by this week&#8217;s mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you\u2019re experiencing unimaginable pain and trauma. The entire FBI family feels your heartbreak and stands with you,\u201d he said in a statement issued through the bureau.<\/p>\n<p>He also praised the law enforcement officers and first responders who rushed to the scene where suspected gunman Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school. FBI agents are working with the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Uvalde Police Department and other law enforcement agencies on the investigation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOn top of that, we\u2019ve deployed national resources, including investigative and analytical support, evidence response and laboratory personnel, victim services professionals to assist families of the victims, and crisis management and behavioral analysis units,\u201d said Wray.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re absolutely heartbroken about yesterday\u2019s tragic events and committed to doing our part to support our partners in the investigation and the Uvalde community as we begin to try to move forward,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-48\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 14:54:46 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas school shooting suspect Salvador Ramos&#8217; grandfather says he feels for victims, families<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>UVALDE, Texas\u00a0&#8211; Rolando Reyes, the grandfather of Texas school shooting suspect Salvador Ramos, told reporters on Wednesday that he feels for the victims of Tuesday&#8217;s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left at least 19 students and two teachers dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel for the victims and the families,&#8221; Reyes told reporters as he got in his vehicle Wednesday, adding that he&#8217;s &#8220;not happy about&#8221; his now-deceased grandson&#8217;s alleged actions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-suspect-grandfather\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_48_article1\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Texas school shooting suspect Salvador Ramos&#8217; grandfather says he feels for victims, families<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-47\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 14:46:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Beto O\u2019Rourke interrupts Texas Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s news conference on Uvalde school shooting<\/h2>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-46\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 14:29:05 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas school shooting: SRO officer was in the school, exchanged gunfire with shooter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nThe\u00a0Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed\u00a0a school police officer exchanged gunfire with the suspected shooter who unleashed fatal gunfire at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas DPS confirmed to Fox News that the school officer was injured by gunfire, which allowed suspect Salvador Ramos to run inside the school and barricade himself. Ramos dropped a bag of ammunition at the entrance of the school as a result of the shootout, according to DPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-sro-officer-gunfire-shooter\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_46_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-45\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 14:18:39 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">SRO officer was in the school, exchanged gunfire with shooter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_45_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">school police officer<\/a> exchanged gunfire with the suspected shooter who unleashed fatal gunfire at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas DPS confirmed to Fox News that the school officer was injured by gunfire, which allowed suspect Salvador Ramos to run inside the school and barricade himself. Ramos dropped a bag of ammunition at the entrance of the school as a result of the shootout, according to DPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DPS added in a comment to Fox News that three local officers were wounded during the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-sro-officer-gunfire-shooter\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_45_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">SRO officer was in the school, exchanged gunfire with shooter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-44\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 14:05:01 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Beto O&#8217;Rourke derails Gov. Greg Abbott update on Uvalde shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nFailed Texas candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke attempted to derail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/greg-abbott\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_44_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s<\/a> response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott spoke for roughly 10 minutes and then attempted to transfer the microphone to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick when O&#8217;Rourke approached the stage.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s words were not audible, but he was pointing aggressively at the stage even as those on it shouted him down.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-robb-elementary-beto-orourke-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_44_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Beto O&#8217;Rourke derails Gov. Greg Abbott update on Uvalde shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-43\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 14:00:23 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Beto O\u2019Rourke heckles Abbott press conference, gets escorted out<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Democrat Beto O&#8217;Rourke engaged in a fiery exchange Wednesday with Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick during Gov. Abbott&#8217;s press conference about the Uvalde shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke, who is running for governor of Texas, approached the front of the room and started making comments to Abbott and Patrick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are doing nothing,\u201d O\u2019Rourke was heard telling them at one point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke was asked repeatedly to leave the auditorium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nUvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin then called O\u2019Rourke a \u201csick son of a b&#8212;-\u201d who came to the event to make a \u201cpolitical issue.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-42\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 13:47:29 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Abbott: Deputy sheriff lost daughter in Robb Elementary school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the three police officers who were injured in the shooting are in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>One deputy sheriff, he said, lost a daughter in the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-41\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 13:44:50 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Abbott: Uvalde gunman posted messages on Facebook prior to attack<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that a Border Patrol officer killed Salvador Ramos after the 18-year-old launched a shooting spree inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abbott said Ramos had no known mental health history and used an AR-15 in the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About a half hour before the school shooting, Ramos started posting messages on Facebook, according to Abbott.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe first post was to the point of he said, \u2018I&#8217;m going to shoot my grandmother.\u2019 The second post was I shot my grandmother. The third post, maybe less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school, was I&#8217;m going to shoot an elementary school,\u201d Abbott told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-40\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 13:36:40 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Abbott hails first responders, says \u2018Uvalde has been shaken to its core\u2019<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that \u201cUvalde has been shaken to its core.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies are broken apart. Hearts are forever shattered,\u201d he said. \u201cAll Texans are grieving with the people of Uvalde and people are rightfully angry about what has happened.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they need now more than ever is our love, what they need is uplifting from all of our fellow Texans and fellow Americans,\u201d Abbott added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abbott also said &#8220;the reason it was not worse was because law enforcement officials did what they do. They showed amazing courage by running toward gunfire to try to save lives.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-39\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 13:07:09 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde parent whose child survived massacre reacts to horror of shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A\u00a0Uvalde parent whose 8-year-old son survived Tuesday&#8217;s shooting shared his feelings about the massacre that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/mass-murder\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_39_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">killed 19 students and two teachers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday, I was just full of emotions,&#8221; Guadelupe Leija told Fox News. &#8220;It&#8217;s heartbreaking. My heart goes out all the families that lost a loved one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, they&#8217;re kids,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They&#8217;re babies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-parent-child-survived-massacre-reacts-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_39_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde parent whose child survived massacre reacts to horror of shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-38\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 13:02:37 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas Gov. Abbott to speak about Uvalde school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is set to speak at 1:30 p.m. ET about the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Live: <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6306792096112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gov. Abbott holding press conference to address Texas school shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-37\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 12:38:12 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nTexas school shooting: Missing 10-year-old girls among those killed, families say<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Two Robb Elementary School students who were missing hours after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/mass-murder\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_37_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">horrific shooting at the school<\/a> are among the 22 people who were killed, the families say.<\/p>\n<p>The whereabouts of Elijah Cruz Torres, 10, were unknown in the aftermath of the second-deadliest mass shooting of a school in U.S. history since Sandy Hook Elementary. Her family confirmed the worst to Fox News Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10, who did not make contact with her family in the hours after suspected gunman Salvador Ramos, a student of Uvalde High School, carried out his shooting spree, was also among those who died, her father told Fox 7 Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-girls-missing-family\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_37_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooting: Missing 10-year-old girls among those killed, families say<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-36\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 12:27:03 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">All victims identified, Salvador Ramos&#8217; grandmother in serious condition<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>All of the victims in the Robb Elementary School shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_36_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a> have been identified, Texas officials said Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The officials told Fox News that each of the victims\u2019 families have been contacted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, the death toll in Tuesday\u2019s attack stood at 19 children and two teachers, while 17 remain injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-all-victims-identified\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_36_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">All victims identified, Salvador Ramos&#8217; grandmother in serious condition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-35\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 11:44:10 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas school shooting investigators hunt for motive: &#8216;A lot of unanswered questions&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Investigators in Texas continued to hunt for a motive early Wednesday after a lone shooter entered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_35_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Robb Elementary School in Uvalde<\/a> and killed at least 19 students and two adults.<\/p>\n<p>\nLt. Chris Olivarez with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) appeared on &#8220;America\u2019s Newsroom&#8221; to give an update on what investigators have learned so far, and what questions still need answers surrounding the history and motive of 18-year-old shooter Salvador Ramos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do know for a fact that there was no criminal history or no gang affiliation as well that would have set off any indicators for him to make this purchase [of a long rifle],&#8221; Olivarez said.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-investigators-motive-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_35_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooting investigators hunt for motive: &#8216;A lot of unanswered questions&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-34\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 11:40:45 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Salvador Ramos legally purchased 2 rifles upon turning 18 days before shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The teenager suspected of killing 19 children and two teachers inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_34_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">southwest Texas school<\/a> legally purchased two rifles shortly after his 18th birthday and used one of them in Tuesday&#8217;s shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\nSalvador Ramos, 18, legally purchased AR platform rifles on May 17, 2022 and May 20, 2022, according to a briefing from Texas Sen. John Whitmire on Wednesday. One of the guns was found in Ramos\u2019s car outside the school and the other one was found with his body inside the school. Ramos reportedly turned 18 on May 16, according to ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ramos also purchased 375 rounds of 5.56 ammunition, Whitmire and Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez told the Austin American-Statesman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-legally-2-rifles-days-before\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_34_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooting: Shooter legally purchased 2 rifles upon turning 18 days before shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-33\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 09:54:06 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">New details emerge about police response to Robb Elementary, Salvador Ramos&#8217; &#8216;evil&#8217; nature<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Multiple police officers who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_33_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>, were struck with gunfire by a suspect who &#8220;just began shooting anyone that was in his way,&#8221; a law enforcement officer revealed Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nTexas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez, speaking on NBC\u2019s &#8220;Today&#8221; show, said the events that led to the deaths of 19 students and two teachers began when Salvador Ramos shot his grandmother and then crashed a vehicle while fleeing that scene. Local police then got calls about an individual armed with a weapon making his way into the school, according to Olivarez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said when law enforcement &#8220;tried to make entry into the building, they were met with gunfire by the suspect, by the shooter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-police-response-salvador-ramos\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_33_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooting: New details emerge about police response, Salvador Ramos&#8217; &#8216;evil&#8217; nature<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-32\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 09:37:57 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Who are the victims killed at Uvalde elementary school?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nIn the hours after a lone gunman killed 19 children and two adults at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_32_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas elementary school<\/a> on Tuesday, the victims have begun to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>While some families made desperate pleas online to help find their missing children, other families mourned the loss of loved ones following the massacre at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, a seven-square-mile community located about 85 miles west of San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Some names of those killed began to emerge by nightfall on Tuesday, many accompanied by photos of smiling children.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooting-victims-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_32_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Who are the victims killed at Uvalde elementary school?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-31\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 08:44:53 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde, Texas shooting response: School districts nationwide ramp up security<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>School districts across the U.S. are taking heightened security measures following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/mass-murder\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_31_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly mass shooting<\/a><br \/>\n at a Texas elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old high school student killed at least 19 children and two teachers during the tragic attack at Robb Elementary School in Texas, prompting responses to increase safety in the final weeks of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, school and law enforcement officials in several counties made announcements hours after the shooting. Gwinnett County, the largest in the state and 13th largest in the country with nearly 200,000 students, will see police officers on campuses, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/uvalde-texas-shooting-school-districts-nationwide-security\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_31_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas shooting response: School districts nationwide ramp up security<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-30\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 07:53:45 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Pope Francis says school shootings like Uvalde &#8216;cannot occur again&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Pope Francis is speaking out Wednesday following the Robb Elementary School shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_30_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>, saying that &#8220;tragedies like this cannot occur again.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Francis, addressing his general audience at the Vatican, said he is &#8220;heartbroken about the massacre&#8221; and is praying for the 19 children and two adults who lost their lives after shooter Salvador Ramos opened fire Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s time to say \u2018Enough\u2019 to the indiscriminate trade of weapons!&#8221; Francis added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/texas-school-shooting-pope-francis-speaks\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_30_article2\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nTexas school shooting: Pope Francis says massacres like Uvalde &#8216;cannot occur again&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-29\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 07:32:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Ukraine&#8217;s Zelenskyy, world leaders react, say they are &#8216;deeply saddened&#8217; following Uvalde shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy and several other world leaders offered their condolences to the United States on Wednesday for the mass shooting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_29_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting left at least 19 children and two adults killed. Zelenskyy stated he was &#8220;deeply saddened by the news of the murder of innocent children in Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of Ukraine share the pain of the relatives and friends of the victims and all Americans,&#8221; Zelenskyy tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/texas-school-shooting-ukraine-zelenskyy-world-leaders-react\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_29_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas school shooting: Ukraine&#8217;s Zelenskyy, world leaders react, say they are &#8216;deeply saddened&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-28\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 05:55:17 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">8-year-old Uziyah Garcia confirmed dead in Uvalde, Texas school shooting: grandfather<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nUziyah Garcia, 8, was among the 19 children who were killed Tuesday following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24 in Uvalde, Texas. Two teachers at the school were also killed during the rampage.<\/p>\n<p>Manny Renfro, young Uziyah&#8217;s grandfather, confirmed the death with the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sweetest little boy that I\u2019ve ever known,\u201d Renfro said. \u201cI\u2019m not just saying that because he was my grandkid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renfro said he last saw Uziyah when the boy visited him over spring break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started throwing the football together and I was teaching him pass patterns. Such a fast little boy and he could catch a ball so good,\u201d Renfro said. \u201cThere were certain plays that I would call that he would remember and he would do it exactly like we practiced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-27\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 05:43:35 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Justice Department releases statement following school shooting in Texas<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nAttorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department was utilizing its resources to aid local law enforcement agencies following a deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, another mass shooting has taken the lives of innocent victims, including elementary school children and their teacher. This act of unspeakable violence has devastated an entire community and shaken our country,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFBI and ATF agents have responded to the scene, and the Justice Department is committed to providing our full support to our law enforcement partners on the ground in Texas and to the Uvalde community,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, \u201cWe join our fellow Americans in mourning this terrible loss and in their resolve to end this senseless violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-26\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 04:37:44 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Pelosi calls on Congress to act following &#8216;cold-blooded massacre&#8217; at Texas elementary school<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Congress to take action following the &#8220;cold-blooded massacre&#8221; that took place Tuesday morning at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Words are inadequate to describe the agony and outrage at the cold-blooded massacre of little schoolchildren and a teacher at Robb Elementary School today,&#8221; Pelosi said in a statement. &#8220;The hearts of all Americans are broken as we pray for the families left forever shattered and a community left forever scarred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;This shooting stole the futures of children, who won&#8217;t experience joys of graduating from school, chasing a career, falling in love, even starting a family of their own. We hold close all who have lost a loved one to gun violence, as this horrible crime deepens their suffering,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For too long, some in Congress have offered hollow words after shootings while opposing all efforts to save lives,&#8221; Pelosi continued. &#8220;It is time for all in Congress to heed the will of the American people &#038; join in enacting the House-passed bipartisan, commonsense, life-saving legislation into law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-25\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 04:17:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Ukraine Foreign Minister on Uvalde, Texas school shooting: &#8216;We stand in solidarity with you&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba responded to Tuesday&#8217;s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Horrible news from Uvalde, Texas. Our deepest sympathy is with the victims and their families,&#8221; Kuleba tweeted. &#8220;As a nation that goes through the pain of losing innocent young lives, Ukraine shares the pain of our U.S. friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We stand in solidarity with you at this difficult time,&#8221; he added, tagging his U.S. counter-part Secretary of State Antony Blinken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-24\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 03:59:31 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Ukraine Pres. Zelenskyy expresses condolences following horrific shooting: &#8216;deeply saddened&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his condolences and said he was &#8220;deeply saddened&#8221; following the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Deeply saddened by the news of the murder of innocent children in Texas,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Sincere condolences to the families of the victims, the people of the US and @POTUS\u00a0over this tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of Ukraine share the pain of the relatives and friends of the victims and all Americans,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet came amid Ukraine&#8217;s ongoing defense of their country against Russian invaders and the same day Zelenskyy gave a nightly address where he said the current military struggle in Donbas is &#8220;extremely difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-23\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 02:56:29 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Former Pres. Bill Clinton on Uvalde school shooting: &#8216;Enough is enough&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Former U.S. President Bill Clinton released a statement following the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart breaks for the families who sent their children and loved ones off to school today at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, whose lives will now never be the same,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe owe these families \u2014 and the families who have experienced similar losses, including as recently as last week in Buffalo \u2014 action,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cEnough is enough. The American people overwhelmingly agree. Our elected leaders at the local, state, and federal levels, regardless of party, must find common-sense ways to keep our children and communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can do so without touching the right to hunt, sport shoot, and keep guns for self-defense. Propaganda and paranoia have kept us from helping each other on this for too long. We can do \u2014 and be \u2014 better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He concluded: &#8220;The time to act is now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-22\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 02:21:56 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Suspected gunman posted pics, messaged a woman about his plans before attack<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Authorities identified Salvador Ramos as the shooter who opened fire in Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. The 18-year-old shot and killed at least 19 students and two teachers, Fox News confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos allegedly posted disturbing images online before the shooting, and apparently messaged a woman about his plans before he carried out the deadly attack. The Instagram account has since been taken down.<\/p>\n<p>The same account allegedly sent alarming messages to a woman before the deadly attack. The first message, sent on May 12, asked, &#8220;You gonna repost my gun pics?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on the story, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-school-shooter-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_22_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Who is the Texas school shooter? What we know<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-21\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 01:13:08 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde schools superintendent: \u2018My heart is broken today&#8230; We need your prayers&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Uvalde\u00a0School District Superintendent Hal Harrell said his &#8220;heart is broken&#8221; following the loss of at least 19 children and 2 adults in a school shooting Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart is broken today,&#8221; a visibly emotional Harrell told reporters later that afternoon, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs investigators continue to unpack the series of events that led up to the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, Harrell said his community was appreciative of people praying for his &#8220;small community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re a small community and we need your prayers to get us through this,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-20\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 00:41:32 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Fourth-grade teacher Eva Mireles identified as victim<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nFourth-grade teacher Eva Mireles has been identified as one of the two adult victims in a school shooting that also left 19 children dead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>A relative of Mireles said she will be remembered as a loving mother and wife.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was adventurous. I would definitely say those wonderful things about her. She is definitely going to be very missed,&#8221; said Amber Ybarra, 44, of San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-19\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed May 25 2022 00:22:13 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Gov. Abbott to visit Uvalde on Wednesday<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott will visit Uvalde Wednesday, the day after the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, Fox News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texans across the state are grieving for the victims of this senseless crime and for the community of Uvalde,&#8221; Abbott said following the shooting. &#8220;Cecilia and I mourn this horrific loss and we urge all Texans to come together to show our unwavering support to all who are suffering. We thank the courageous first responders who worked to finally secure Robb Elementary School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have instructed the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers to work with local law enforcement to fully investigate this crime. the Texas Division of Emergency Management is charged with providing local officials all resources necessary to respond to this tragedy as the state of Texas works to ensure the community has what it needs to heal,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-18\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 23:42:55 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors hold moment of silence for victims<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks and the Golden State Warriors held a moment of silence before Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-17\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 22:45:46 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Family fears the worst after 4th grader never returned following shooting, missing for hours<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A 4th grade student is still missing following a shooting incident at Robb Elementary School and her family fears the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after suspected gunman Salvador Ramos allegedly gunned down 22 people, including 19 children, 10-year-old Elijah Cruz Torres is still missing.<\/p>\n<p>She has not made any contact with her family, who are worried she is dead, her grandfather told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-16\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 22:07:27 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde, Texas school shooting leaves 19 children, three adults, including shooter dead<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The total number of dead from Tuesday&#8217;s shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school has increased to 22 victims.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety told Fox News that 19 children were killed as well as two teachers were confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>The other person killed was the suspected gunman, Salvador Ramos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-15\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 21:43:32 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Barack Obama expresses outrage over Uvalde school shooting, says country \u2018paralyzed\u2019 by gun lobby<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Former President Barack Obama issued calls to support the families in Uvalde, Texas while also criticizing lawmakers for failing to prevent another mass shooting that killed 18 children at an elementary school Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross the country, parents are putting their children to bed, reading stories, singing lullabies\u2014and in the back of their minds, they\u2019re worried about what might happen tomorrow after they drop their kids off at school, or take them to a grocery store or any other public space,\u201d he said in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cMichelle and I grieve with the families in Uvalde, who are experiencing pain no one should have to bear. We\u2019re also angry for them,\u201d he added. \u201cNearly ten years after Sandy Hook\u2014and ten days after Buffalo\u2014our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s long past time for action, any kind of action. And it\u2019s another tragedy\u2014a quieter but no less tragic one\u2014for families to wait another day. May God bless the memory of the victims, and in the words of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-14\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 21:08:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Biden demands gun control following Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>President Biden called for changes to gun laws Tuesday and expressed his heartbreak following a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who learned of the shooting at Robb Elementary School while on Air Force One returning from his trip to Asia, said that &#8220;to lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a hollowness in your chest, you feel like your being sucked into it, never able to get out. Suffocating. It&#8217;s never quite the same.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-responds-uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_14_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-13\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 20:59:04 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Border Patrol agent with elite unit killed Uvalde school shooter<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>An agent with the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), a specialized unit within the U.S. Border Patrol, is believed to have shot and killed the suspected gunman who killed 18 children and at least one adult at Robb Elementary school on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The agent entered the school with a team while other law enforcement officers engaged with the suspect who was barricaded, Border Patrol sources told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The agent was struck in the leg by either a bullet or shrapnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nBORTAC provides immediate response to high-risk incidents requiring special skills and tactics, according to the Border Patrol. The team has full-time members based in El Paso, Texas and non-full-time members throughout the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-12\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 20:24:15 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Harris calls for action after Texas elementary school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris called on leaders to take action following the deadly mass shooting at an\u00a0elementary school in Uvalde, Texas\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time a tragedy like this happens, our hearts break and our broken hearts are nothing compared to the broken hearts of those families,&#8221; Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-action-uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_12_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-11\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 20:20:20 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas mass shooting: Uvalde school district had security measures in place prior to tragedy<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) in\u00a0Texas\u00a0had many security measures in place before Tuesday&#8217;s mass shooting that left at least 18 students and a teacher dead after a now-deceased suspect opened fire at Robb Elementary School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Simple settlement for instant in placeThe now-deceased suspect, Salvador Ramos, is accused of entering school grounds on Tuesday and\u00a0opening fire, according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To read more,click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-mass-shooting-school-district-security-measures\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_texas-school-shooting:-official-says-uvalde-commander-made-&#039;wrong-decision&#039;-during-massacre_postclickthru_11_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-10\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 19:50:14 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Authorities give statement following shooting at Texas elementary school<\/h2>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-9\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 19:42:51 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><br \/>\n<\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Father of Uvalde elementary student says daughter still missing after deadly shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The father of a 10-year-old girl told Fox News his daughter was missing following a deadly shooting at an Elementary school that has claimed the lives of at least 18 children and two adults, including the suspected shooter who also died.<\/p>\n<p>Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez is a student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and her photo was provided to Texas Rangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-8\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 19:32:32 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">18 children, 2 adults, including suspected shooter, dead in Texas school shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The death toll in the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting is now 20, including 18 children and two adults, including the suspected gunman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-7\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 19:02:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Biden speaks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to offer assistance in Uvalde shooting<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\u00a0President Biden spoke with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott where he offered \u201cany and all assistance he needs\u201d in the wake of the shooting in Uvalde.<\/p>\n<p>White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield tweeted an image of Biden on the phone with Abbott while aboard what appears to be Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p>\nBiden will issue remarks about the shooting at 8:15 P.M. ET from the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-6\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 18:57:53 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">WATCH LIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks<\/h2>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-5\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 18:43:31 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Ted Cruz offers prayers for Uvalde families, thanks law enforcement, first responders<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, offered his prayers to families in Uvalde impacted by Tuesday deadly mass shooting while thanking law enforcement and first responders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is a dark day. We\u2019re all completely sickened and heartbroken. As of now, 15 innocent people are dead. 14 were children. Others are still in critical condition or otherwise injured, and we are all praying for each of them,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;I\u2019m grateful for the heroes in law enforcement and first responders who responded to the scene and stopped the killer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHeidi and I are lifting up in prayer the entire Uvalde community during this devastating time and we mourn the lives that were taken by this act of evil. None of us can imagine the anguish the parents in Uvalde are going through. Our hearts go out to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen too many of these shootings. No parent should have to bear the pain of burying their child. We need to come together, as one nation, and support Uvalde as they try to heal from this devastating loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-4\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 18:37:29 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Cornyn calls deadly Uvalde school shooting \u2018every parent and teacher\u2019s worst nightmare\u2019<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nSen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, called the shooting at a Uvalde elementary shooting \u201cevery parent and teacher\u2019s worst nightmare.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo parent, child, or teacher should ever have to wonder whether it\u2019s safe to go to school. This is an excruciatingly difficult time for the tight-knit Uvalde community and for all Texans as we mourn this terrible tragedy,\u201d he said in a statement hours after the shooting. \u201cMy heart goes out to those in the hospital receiving care and to the loved ones of those who lost their lives. As a parent, the pain they must be feeling is unimaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in touch with local officials in Uvalde and will continue to monitor the situation. I\u2019m grateful to law enforcement and everyone who worked to stop the shooter and to the medical staff working now to prevent further loss of life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-3\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 18:18:55 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Texas school shooting: Robb Elementary in process of notifying families<\/h2>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-2\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 18:14:40 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Biden to deliver address on Uvalde school shooting, orders flags flown at half-staff<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>President Biden on Tuesday ordered all American flags at the White House and public buildings be flown at half-staff to honor the victims of the Uvalde school shooting that took 15 lives, many of them children.<\/p>\n<p>The order also applies to all military post, naval stations and vessels until Saturday at sunset.He will address the shooting at 8:15 P.M. ET from the Roosevelt Room in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The order came hours after a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter was killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"article-item\" id=\"post-1\" data-post-id=\"\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Tue May 24 2022 17:59:27 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Uvalde, Texas school shooting: 14 students, one teacher killed, suspected shooter dead, Gov. Abbott<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A shooting at a Texas elementary school killed 14 children and one teacher on Tuesday, Gov. 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