Tag: mass shooting

Texas Top Cop Refuses to Resign Despite Call By Uvalde School Massacre Families

Families of slain children in Uvalde called for the resignation of Texas’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steve McCraw during a public meeting in Austin on Oct. 27. Citing the abject failure of the department’s response to the school massacre on May 24 and the ensuing confusion caused by McCraw’s “misinformation after misinformation” during…


Texas Schools Handing out DNA Kits to Parents to Help Identify Kids in Emergencies

Texas public schools will soon be sending students home with DNA and fingerprint identification kits in an effort to help parents identify them in case of an emergency. Approximately 3.8 million students in Texas are expected to bring home a kit, ABC13 reported, with some schools set to begin distributing them as early as this week. The decision comes…


Uvalde School Board Suspends Entire School Police Department

The school district’s police department in Uvalde has been suspended, and the acting police chief placed on administrative leave, according to an announcement by Anne Marie Espinoza, spokesperson for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD). “Recent developments have uncovered additional concerns with department operations,” Espinoza wrote in an Oct. 7 email. “As a result…


Thailand Mourns Children, Staff Killed in One of World’s Deadliest Massacres

Flags were flown half-staff across Thailand on Friday following the country’s deadliest massacre that left at least 38 people dead, most of whom were young children. The death toll includes the attacker, his wife, and his child—both of whom he killed after the shooting in the daycare center in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 kilometers (310…


Uvalde Parents Sue School District, Former School Police Chief, Gun Manufacturer

Three parents of children who survived the May 24 Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, have sued the school district as well as law enforcement agencies, the former school police chief, and an AR-15 rifle manufacturer. Plaintiff Corina Camacho is the mother of a 10-year-old boy who survived, but was shot in the leg…


Man Arrested in California Plotted ‘Las Vegas-Style’ Mass Shooting

CHICO, Calif.—A 37-year-old man was arrested on Sept. 25 in Northern California on suspicion of threatening to kill police officers and planning a “Las Vegas-style” mass shooting, authorities said. The suspect was taken into custody by SWAT officers at a Super 8 motel in Chico after detectives obtained evidence of his plot, according to a…


Mass Shooting Inquiry: Former Mountie Says He Quit Over Quashed Alert System Proposal

The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting has heard from a former Mountie who says he became so frustrated trying to get the RCMP to adopt a new public alerting system that he quit the police force. Mark Furey, who later served as Nova Scotia’s justice minister, says that in 2012, he recommended the…


Mountie’s Testimony Before the NS Mass Shooting Inquiry Tuesday Won’t Be Broadcast

Today the RCMP officer once described by another police officer as a “friend” of the man behind the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia will testify before the inquiry investigating the rampage, though it will not be broadcast. Const. Greg Wiley, who is scheduled to testify via video Tuesday afternoon, will be the first witness…


Multiple Media Outlets Sue Uvalde Officials Over Failure to Make Mass Shooting Records Public

A string of media outlets and organizations have filed a lawsuit against officials in Uvalde, Texas, for failing to publicly release records related to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The lawsuit was filed Monday in Uvalde County against the city of Uvalde, the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office, and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District. It asks…


Halifax Police Chief Denies His Force ‘Did Not Try at All’ Amid Mass Shooting

Halifax’s police chief says his offer to send officers to back up the RCMP’s response to the April 2020 mass shooting was turned down, even after senior tactical officers at the city were pushing for the force to send help. Dan Kinsella testified Thursday at the public inquiry investigating how a gunman driving a replica…