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UVALDE, Texas (CBS/AP) — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team. “Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in. READ MORE: Portion Of Atlantic City Board Walk That Is More Than 100 Years Old To Get Makeover Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still gathered outside the building. Upset that police were not moving in, he … [Read more...] about Onlookers Urged Police To Charge Into Texas School

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An effort by Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania to ban owning, selling or making high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms went nowhere Wednesday as state House Republicans again displayed their firm opposition to gun restriction proposals. The state House of Representatives voted 111-87 against the effort by Democratic Rep. Danielle Friel Otten of Chester County to take up the bill after Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff argued it should have to go through a committee first. READ MORE: Portion Of Atlantic City Board Walk That Is More Than 100 Years Old To Get Makeover The bill has spent more than a year in the Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin, has bottled up most proposals to regulate or restrict firearms. During floor debate, Otten said the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday created a “moral obligation to act, today, before this happens one more time.” Minority … [Read more...] about House Votes Against Taking Up Gun Bill After Texas Killings

CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) — Police began increasing their presence at schools in Camden on Wednesday and CBS3 has learned it will be maintained indefinitely. The Mayor of the City of Camden, the Camden County Police Chief, the Camden County Sheriff and the Superintendent for the Camden City School District are expected to make the announcement about extra protection at schools at 12:30 p.m. Thursday. The announcement will be made at Camden High School. Officials say this will give parents and students peace of mind in the wake of the heart-wrenching school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left at least 19 children and two adults dead. New Jersey’s acting attorney general directed law enforcement throughout the Garden State to increase its presence at schools in response to the tragedy at Robb Elementary School. Murphy says there are no credible threats to any New Jersey schools but they wanted to create a sense of security. “While there are no credible threats, NewJerseyOAG has … [Read more...] about Camden Police To Indefinitely Increase Presence At District Schools Following Heart-Wrenching Texas School Shooting

(CBS DETROIT) — Police arrested an 18-year-old from Shelby Township after Texas authorities tracked a social media post allegedly threatening to shoot and killed students. Shelby Township police said on Wednesday, a detective from the Texas Rangers notified them about the threats made against an unspecified school. READ MORE: MSP Investigate I-75 Shooting In Hamtramck The post was tracked to an address in Shelby Township, authorities say. Police identified the 18-year-old as the suspect and went to his home where he was interviewed and arrested. The teen was transported to the police department pending an arrangement. Weapons were found in the home and were removed. READ MORE: Michiganders Blow Monthly Budget Just 16 Days After Payday, Study Says “We are grateful for the Texas Rangers reporting this behavior to our agency. We are committed to protecting our community and I want to commend our officers for their swift response,” Shelby Township Police Chief Robert … [Read more...] about Police: Texas Authorities Track School Shooting Threats To 18-Year-Old In Shelby Township

UVALDE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – On May 24, frustrated onlookers urged police to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman was on a rampage that eventually killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday. The accusations come as investigators work to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team. “Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in. READ MORE: 19 Children, 2 Adults Killed In Mass Shooting In Uvalde, Texas Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still gathered outside the building. Upset that … [Read more...] about Crowd reportedly urged police to charge into Texas school

People react outside the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 24, 2022. Photo: Marco Bello/REUTERS A gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers and injured 17 others at a Texas elementary school in the deadliest such attack since Sandy Hook almost a decade ago. The rampage plunged the country into grief and outrage as Americans struggled to comprehend the latest in an unending series of mass shootings. Below, the latest on this developing story. . The Attack Around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos opened fire inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a working-class, majority-Latino city of about 15,000 people 85 miles west of San Antonio. Children get on a school bus as law-enforcement personnel guard the scene near Robb Elementary School on Tuesday. Photo: Marco Bello/REUTERS Ramos first shot and critically wounded his … [Read more...] about New Details Emerge About the Texas School Shooting

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Schools in Philadelphia and South Jersey are increasing security measures following the massacre in Texas. They’re also offering support to students who need it. At Sheridan Elementary School in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, tearful conversations took place between students and staff in the wake of the school massacre in Texas. READ MORE: More Than 100 Philadelphia Middle Schoolers Demand Pennsylvania Lawmakers To Vote On Gun Control Measures Seventy percent of the student population is Hispanic. “One of the reasons for that impact, I think, felt so strong was that the kids look just like ours, the ones who were killed in Texas,” assistant principal Julio Nunez said. The school is making three counselors available to any student who needs to talk. “Giving them that sense of what they can do is important so they’re not walking from conversations feeling hopeless,” Nunez said. To give parents peace of mind, police ramped up their presence at … [Read more...] about Schools In Philadelphia, South Jersey Evaluating Security Measures Following Texas School Shooting

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of students at Oxford High School, the Michigan school where four were killed in November, walked out Thursday and formed a ‘U’ on the football field to show support for students and families in Uvalde, Texas. “We went through the same thing. I lost a lot of friends. I thought it would be respectful to help other people through it,” sophomore Andrew Sholtz told The Detroit News. READ MORE: What We Know About The Victims At Robb Elementary School A gunman killed 19 children and two teachers this week at Robb Elementary School in Texas. Oxford school officials knew a walkout was planned and worked to ensure students would be safe, spokeswoman Danielle Stublensky said. READ MORE: Garden City Police Search For 2 Vehicles Involved In Shooting That Caused Fatal Crash She said it was part of a national effort by Students Demand Action, a group calling for changes in gun laws. “As a community, our hearts are with Uvalde and we understand why … [Read more...] about Oxford High Students Walk Out To Support Robb Elementary School In Texas

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Sen. Ted Cruz is doubling down on blaming mental health as the cause for the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 22 people dead, including 19 children and two teachers. The Republican senator stormed out of an interview Wednesday after being asked if gun laws will change following the nation's worst school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012. The Republican senator joined Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican politicians as well as hundreds of relatives and friends of the victims mourning at a vigil in Uvalde Wednesday. At the vigil, Cruz was approached by British journalist Mark Stone of Sky News . The Republican senator told Stone: "There are 19 sets of parents who are never going to get to kiss their child tonight." Stone then questioned the Republican senator if now was the moment to reform gun laws. In response, Cruz rolled his eyes, and accused Stone of … [Read more...] about ‘Stop being a propagandist’: Sen. Ted Cruz dodges questions from reporters about gun reform

409 Politics & Government Two teachers were among the 21 people killed in a mass shooting Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Jonah Meadows , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Replies ILLINOIS — In the wake of the fatal shooting of more than a dozen students and a pair of teachers at a Texas elementary school, unions representing teachers in Illinois called for collective action to end gun violence in schools. Illinois Federation of Teachers President Dan Montgomery noted in a statement that it has been just 10 days since the nation grieved another mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. "There are no words to help the families through this tragedy. The unimaginable continues to happen in our schools where teachers, students, and parents should feel safe," Montgomery said. "We feel, too, for the educators and school staff who must cope with their own shock, grief, and fear to help their students, … [Read more...] about Illinois Teachers Unions Respond To Texas School Shooting