Uvalde School Shooting

Several families whose children were killed or wounded in a mass shooting at their Texas school two years ago have sued the gun manufacturer as well as Instagram and video game company Activision for marketing the weapon, their lawyer said Friday.

The shooting was the deadliest in the US since a shooter in Uvalde, Texas killed 22 people at an elementary school last year on May 24.

District police chief Pete Arredondo, who was in charge of the response to the Uvalde school shooting, was fired on Wednesday.

The widely criticized police officer in charge of the response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting that saw 19 children and two teachers killed was fired Wednesday, US media reported.

Texas state lawmakers on Sunday slammed law enforcement's slow response to the shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, saying more decisive action could have saved lives.

A video of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, published Tuesday showed police waiting for more than an hour before breaching a classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.

The police in Uvalde have faced public anger, with parents accusing the cops of waiting for an hour before entering the school and killing the gunman.

The arrest comes just two weeks after 19 school children and two adults were killed in one of the worst mass shooting incidents in the United States.

The chief of police in Uvalde, Texas, has defended the force's response to a shooting in Robb Elementary School in which 21 people were killed last month. The cops have been facing the flak for taking 77 minutes to enter the classrooms.

An 11-year-old girl told horrified lawmakers Wednesday of smearing herself in her murdered classmate's blood to play dead during the most chilling in a spate of gun massacres that have convulsed the United States.

Actor Matthew McConaughey took the podium at the White House on Tuesday to deliver an emotional appeal for "gun responsibility" following the massacre at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.

A 10-year-old tried to save one of the teachers at Rob Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, as a teenager rained bullets on a classroom full of students. Khloie Torres was one of the students who saw the wounded woman, according to the New York Times report

Detectives interviewed the boy and later charged him with making a threat to conduct a mass shooting.

Desperate pleas for a stop to the gun massacres plaguing the United States rang out Sunday during President Joe Biden's visit to Uvalde, where he prayed for the 19 children and two teachers killed by a teen gunman in the small Texas town.

Fresh harrowing accounts emerged Saturday of the ordeal faced by survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, fanning public fury over the massacre even as the deeply traumatized town prepared for a visit on Sunday by US President Joe Biden.

Several families whose children were killed or wounded in a mass shooting at their Texas school two years ago have sued the gun manufacturer as well as Instagram and video game company Activision for marketing the weapon, their lawyer said Friday.

The shooting was the deadliest in the US since a shooter in Uvalde, Texas killed 22 people at an elementary school last year on May 24.

District police chief Pete Arredondo, who was in charge of the response to the Uvalde school shooting, was fired on Wednesday.

The widely criticized police officer in charge of the response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting that saw 19 children and two teachers killed was fired Wednesday, US media reported.

Texas state lawmakers on Sunday slammed law enforcement's slow response to the shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, saying more decisive action could have saved lives.

A video of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, published Tuesday showed police waiting for more than an hour before breaching a classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.

The police in Uvalde have faced public anger, with parents accusing the cops of waiting for an hour before entering the school and killing the gunman.

The arrest comes just two weeks after 19 school children and two adults were killed in one of the worst mass shooting incidents in the United States.

The chief of police in Uvalde, Texas, has defended the force's response to a shooting in Robb Elementary School in which 21 people were killed last month. The cops have been facing the flak for taking 77 minutes to enter the classrooms.

An 11-year-old girl told horrified lawmakers Wednesday of smearing herself in her murdered classmate's blood to play dead during the most chilling in a spate of gun massacres that have convulsed the United States.

Actor Matthew McConaughey took the podium at the White House on Tuesday to deliver an emotional appeal for "gun responsibility" following the massacre at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.

A 10-year-old tried to save one of the teachers at Rob Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, as a teenager rained bullets on a classroom full of students. Khloie Torres was one of the students who saw the wounded woman, according to the New York Times report

Detectives interviewed the boy and later charged him with making a threat to conduct a mass shooting.

Desperate pleas for a stop to the gun massacres plaguing the United States rang out Sunday during President Joe Biden's visit to Uvalde, where he prayed for the 19 children and two teachers killed by a teen gunman in the small Texas town.

Fresh harrowing accounts emerged Saturday of the ordeal faced by survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, fanning public fury over the massacre even as the deeply traumatized town prepared for a visit on Sunday by US President Joe Biden.