Uvalde school shooting: Superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell to retire, school board to discuss next move!

UVALDE, Texas – The Uvalde School District Council will meet on Monday to discuss the retirement of Superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell. The announcement of Harrell’s retirement on Friday came just hours after the district suspended the police department amid criticism of their response to the May 24 shooting that killed 19 students and teachers at Robb Elementary School. In a statement shared to Facebook late Sunday night, Harrell wrote, “My decision to retire was not taken lightly and was made after a lot of prayer and discrimination. My wife and…

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Uvalde school shooting: Protesters demand district to suspend officers who waiting outside Robb Elementary during massacre!

UVALDE, Texas – Brett Cross has been camping outside the Ovaldi school district offices for nearly 200 hours. He didn’t sleep much. It’s sad. The video above is about Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Police Department, wishing state soldiers had taken control of the operation at Robb Elementary School. But the 32-year-old wind turbine service technician said he won’t end his vigil until the Ovaldi School Board stops the five school district police officers who were at Robb Elementary School on May 24, the day an 18-year-old gunman…

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Uvalde school shooting: Texas Senator Roland Gutierrez says students are not safe going into new school year!

UVALDE, Texas (KTRK) – On Tuesday, the new school year will begin at Ovaldi after the tragic end of the 2021-2022 school year. The video above is live 24/7 on ABC13. Robb Elementary School has been closed and a demolition plan is underway after 21 people, including 19 students, were massacred by an 18-year-old gunman days before summer vacation. It’s been more than three months since tragedy struck the small town. Since then, lawmakers have been pushing for change as the Ovaldi School District tries to crack down on security.…

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Uvalde school shooting: 16 Robb Elementary fourth graders waited an hour with wounded teacher Elsa Avila!

UVALDE, Texas – In panic, Elsa Avila slid to her phone, clutching the bleeding side of her stomach and trying to keep her students calm. In a text message to her family that she meant to send to her fellow teachers at Uvalde, she wrote: “I got shot.” For the first time in 30 years, Avila will not be returning to school as classes resume Tuesday in a small town in southwest Texas. The start of school will look different for her, as it will for other survivors of the…

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Texas guns: Gov. Greg Abbott says raising age to buy assault-style rifle is ‘unconstitutional’ based on recent court rulings!

Government. Greg Abbott He said on Wednesday that it would be unconstitutional to increase the minimum age to purchase assault rifles from 18 to 21 — a key proposal advocated by Uvalde parents after an 18-year-old shot their children’s school in May. The video above is from a previous report. “It is clear that the gun control law they seek in Uvald – as much as they want – has already been ruled unconstitutional,” Abbott said at a re-election campaign event in Allen. The Ovaldi gunman purchased two AR-15 rifles…

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Texas federal judge says the state can’t ban 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns after new ban!

Houston, Texas (KTRK) – A federal court in Fort Worth overturned a ban in Texas that had planned to limit the carrying of handguns to adults under the age of 21. U.S. District Judge Mark Bateman ruled Thursday that the ban is unconstitutional. Pittman said the restriction goes against the Second Amendment and US history. According to our partners at the Texas Tribune, two of the plaintiffs, who fall within the 18 to 20-year range, and Firearms Policy Coalition Inc, a nonprofit gun rights organization, are the ones who filed…

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Uvalde school board fires Chief Pete Arredondo after deadly mass shooting!

UVALDE, Texas – The police chief of the besieged Uvald School District was fired on Wednesday after allegations that he committed several blunders during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 students and teachers. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s Board of Trustees said it had voted unanimously to fire Police Chief Pete Arredondo. Arredondo is the first officer to be fired due to law enforcement’s hesitant and sensitive reaction to one of the worst school shootings in US history. Only one other officer – Lieutenant Mariano…

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