UVALDE, Texas—Steve Mena, owner of a barber shop in downtown Uvalde, Texas, was about to cut Jacob Albarado’s hair when each of their wives contacted them about an active shooter at the local elementary school. “At the same time he got a text message, I got a phone call from my wife, because we both…
Uvalde Barber Recounts Racing to School, Giving Shotgun to Border Agent
Supreme Court Won’t Block GOP Lawmaker Depositions in Texas Redistricting Challenge
The Supreme Court decided on May 31 not to block a federal court’s order compelling three Republican members of the Texas House of Representatives to appear for depositions in a consolidated lawsuit over congressional and state-level redistricting. The redistricting took place after the results of the 2020 Census were published. The emergency application filed May…
Uvalde Grieves, Says Goodbyes at Visitations, Funerals
UVALDE, Texas—A week after a gunman ran into a Texas grade school and started shooting, the first of 21 funerals began on Tuesday. Hundreds of mourners turned out for an afternoon Mass to remember Amerie Jo Garza. Six pallbearers wearing white shirts and gloves carried her small casket into Sacred Heart Catholic Church, which turned…
Disturbing Text From Wife Spurred Texas Border Agent to Enter Uvalde School
U.S. Border Patrol agent Jacob Albarado on Tuesday described what happened when he rushed inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde during last week’s mass shooting. Albarado, who was not on duty at the time, said he received a text from his wife, who is a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary. It read, “There’s an active shooter….
Embattled Uvalde Police Chief Can Take City Council Seat: Mayor
The police chief of the school district in Texas where a mass shooting at an elementary school took place on May 24 can assume the City Council seat to which he was previously elected, according to the city’s mayor. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arrendondo was elected to the Uvalde City Council…
Uvalde Mayor Announces Good News for Embattled Police Chief
The police chief of the school district in Texas where a mass shooting at an elementary school took place on May 24 can assume the City Council seat to which he was previously elected, according to the city’s mayor. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arrendondo was elected to the Uvalde City Council…
Boy Describes Climbing Through Broken Window to Escape Uvalde Shooting
A 9-year-old student at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School has described how he climbed through a broken window to escape last week’s mass shooting that left 21 dead. Daniel Ruiz, sitting next to his mother, Briana Ruiz, said during an interview with CNN that the 18-year-old gunman fired “like four bullets” into his classroom, hitting his…
‘Numerous’ Armed Teachers in Neighboring County School, Says Texas Sheriff
KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—Following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, the sheriff from the neighboring county, just 40 miles away, said he plans to add a full active shooter drill when school restarts in the fall. Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe said he’s going to add a full evacuation scenario, where the students…
The Difficult Search for Answers After Uvalde
Commentary I find myself more shaken and stricken after last week’s latest mass shooting, the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, that saw 19 children and two teachers slain in cold blood, than I did after other mass shootings in recent years. Part of that is biographical: As an ex-Texan, the son of an elementary…
2 Die in Aircraft Crash in Central Texas: Officials
Federal authorities confirmed two people died in a light aircraft crash in central Texas on Sunday. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement that two were on board the Airborne Windsports Edge 912 weight-shift control aircraft when it crashed about 60 miles northwest of Austin, the capital, in the town of Granite Shoals. The…
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