Uvalde DA gets initial state police report on school shooting but doesnโt expect full investigation for months
The preliminary report has not been made public by either the district attorneyโs office or the state. The Texas Rangers are conducting a criminal investigation into the shooting at Robb Elementary.
Criminal cases in South Texas are unraveling because of a Texas Rangerโs suspension after the Uvalde shooting
After the Texas Department of Public Safety suspended Texas Ranger Christopher Ryan Kindell, one of hundreds of officers who responded to the May 24 mass shooting, felony cases he investigated are in jeopardy and experts have questioned the justification for his suspension.
Uvalde shooting victims seek $27B, class action in lawsuit
Victims of a Texas elementary school shooting are seeking a $27 billion class action lawsuit against city and state police, the city of Uvalde and other school and law enforcement officials for failing to follow active shooter protocol, according to the lawsuit filed this week.
Uvalde sues local prosecutor over school shooting records
AUSTIN (AP) โ The city of Uvalde sued the local prosecutor's office Thursday seeking access to records and other investigative materials on the May shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 chil[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comAmid fallout from the Uvalde shooting, Texas DPS wants $1.2 billion for academy, active-shooter training facility
The Texas Department of Public Safety wants $1.2 billion to turn its training center north of Austin into a full-time statewide law enforcement academy โ starting with a state-of-theart active-shooter facility that would need a nearly half-billion-dollar investment from Texas taxpayers next year.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas
sanmarcosrecord.comAmid fallout from the Uvalde shooting, Texas DPS wants $1.2 billion for academy, active-shooter training facility
The Texas Department of Public Safety wants $1.2 billion to turn its training center north of Austin into a full-time statewide law enforcement academy โ starting with a state-of-the-art active-shoote[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comAmid fallout from the Uvalde shooting, Texas DPS wants $1.2 billion for academy and active-shooter training facility โ Houston Public Media
DPS is asking lawmakers to approve a $467 million active-shooter facility as a โdown paymentโ for the training academy. โYou play like you practice,โ Director Steve McCraw said.
houstonpublicmedia.orgAmid fallout from the Uvalde shooting, Texas DPS wants $1.2 billion for academy and active-shooter training facility โ Houston Public Media
DPS is asking lawmakers to approve a $467 million active-shooter facility as a โdown paymentโ for the training academy. โYou play like you practice,โ Director Steve McCraw said.
houstonpublicmedia.orgDoctor to review if Uvalde victims had survivable injuries
AUSTIN (AP) โ A Texas doctor said Thursday he is working with state police to determine whether any of the 21 people killed in the Uvalde school shooting could have been saved had medical help arrived[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comCapital Highlights โ Early voting ends Friday; election is Tuesday, Nov. 8
Early voting for the general election ends on Friday, Nov. 4, with the closely watched governorโs race pitting incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott against challenger Beto Oโ Rourke headlining the ballot.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comUvalde families make last push for shakeup on Election Day
UVALDE (AP) โ Just hours after voting started in Texas, Kimberly Rubio cast her ballot in the same Uvalde city building where she waited in May to learn that her daughter, Lexi, was one of 19 fourth-g[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comTexas DPS chief Steve McCraw says his agency โdid not failโ at Uvalde school shooting
Weeks after Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said he would resign if his troopers had โany culpabilityโ in the botched police response to the Uvalde school shooting, he told fam[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comTexas DPS chief Steve McCraw says his agency โdid not failโ at Uvalde school shooting
At a public meeting where families that lost children in the school shooting said he should resign, McCraw said members of the Department of Public Safety made mistakes. But he said heโll step down only โif DPS as an institution failed the families.โ
Texas state trooper who responded to Uvalde shooting fired amid investigations into police response
Department of Public Safety Sgt. Juan Maldonado is the first state police officer fired in the aftermath of a botched police response to the shooting. He was the highest-ranking state trooper to initially respond to Robb Elementary School.
Texas DPS director says he wishes his agency had taken control over the police response to the Uvalde shooting โ Houston Public Media
The stateโs top law enforcement agency also told USA Today that seven officers have now been referred to its internal affairs division, including two who are command staff.
houstonpublicmedia.orgTexas state police launch internal review of Uvalde response
UVALDE (AP) โ Two months after the Uvalde school massacre, Texas state police on Monday announced an internal review into the actions of dozens of troopers who were at Robb Elementary during 73 minute[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comTexas Department of Public Safety investigating how 91 of its troopers and Rangers responded to Uvalde school shooting
The departmentโs officers made up nearly one-fourth of the 376 law enforcement members who responded to Texasโ deadliest school shooting. Announcement of the inquiry came one day after a report criticized police response to the massacre.
Uvalde mayor: Police didn't get early chance to end massacre
AUSTIN (AP) โ The mayor of Uvalde on Friday disputed a new report that alleges authorities missed chances to quickly end the massacre at a Texas elementary school, again reflecting the lack of definit[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comA โclonedโ 18-wheeler made it easy for smugglers to pass through the border, say state officials vowing to crack down
A federal agency estimates that about 75 trucks are reported nationally each year with copied or stolen state and federal ID numbers, which industry experts say is likely a significant undercount.
Texas will increase checkpoints for trucks crossing from Mexico after migrant smuggling deaths
DPS said the checkpoints wonโt occur at the ports of entry, which is different than in April when Abbott mandated all commercial vehicles entering from Mexico be checked by state police. The order snarled trade with Mexico at the time.
Uvalde mayor accuses state of leaking records to make local police look bad
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Tuesday accused state authorities of selectively releasing information about last monthโs school shooting to scapegoat local law enforcement and intentionally leaving ou[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comUvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo placed on administrative leave as public hearings, investigation continues
The Uvalde school district police chief, Pete Arredondo, has been placed on administrative leave Wednesday as public hearings and the investigation into the May 24 school massacre continues.
Texas top cop: Uvalde police could've ended rampage early on
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) โ Police had enough officers and firepower on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, and they would have fou[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]
sanmarcosrecord.comHereโs how Pete Arredondo and other law enforcement differ on what happened during the Uvalde shooting
New information released by law enforcement sources and the director of the Department of Public Safety tells a different story about police response to the shooting than Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo.
TIMELINE: DPS releases log of activity, conversations of police situated outside classroom where children, teachers were being massacred
The Texas Department of Public Safety released a timeline of events leading up to, and during, the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two teachers dead. The log of events shows that officers - with rifles - stood and waited in the school hallway for nearly an hour while the gunman carried out the May 24 attack.
Texas DPS director calls police response to Uvalde massacre 'an abject failure'
In a rebuke of the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said Tuesday there was compelling evidence that it was "an abject failure." In scathing remarks at a state Senate committee hearing, McCraw said the on-scene commander "decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children."
news.yahoo.comTexas cops could have stopped the Uvalde gunman within minutes, but the school police chief placed the 'lives of officers before the lives of children': DPS director
The top police official said there was a hallway full of officers ready to confront the shooter, but the district police chief waited for backup.
news.yahoo.comโAbject failureโ: Texas top cop testifies at state Senate hearing on police response to Uvalde school massacre
The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety says three minutes after a gunman entered a school where he slaughtered 19 elementary students and two teachers there was sufficient armed law enforcement on scene to stop the gunman.
Uvalde police had rifles, shield 19 minutes after gunman entered, reports say
The timeline from the Austin American-Statesman and Texas Tribune, which shows that officers had the resources necessary to intervene earlier to stop the shooting, raises new questions surrounding the response to the worst shooting at an American school in nearly a decade.
washingtonpost.comUvalde picks up pieces as shifting accounts of attack trouble officials
Muรฑoz criticized the Texas Department of Public Safety for its shifting accounts of what occurred at the school on Tuesday, but he cautioned against making too many conclusions. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat who represents Uvalde, said, โWeโre all angry. He confirmed that officers waited for nearly an hour in a hallway outside the locked classroom, where authorities say Salvador Rolando Ramos was shooting children and killing their teachers. The president heads to Uvalde on Sunday to meet the families of the victims. AdvertisementHere in Uvalde, a seemingly endless schedule of funerals has been released, beginning Tuesday and stretching for nearly two weeks.
washingtonpost.comDPS Director: It was โthe wrong decisionโ not to engage Uvalde shooter sooner โ Houston Public Media
Texas of Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said a commander on the scene at the elementary school in Uvalde chose not to engage the shooter because it was believed children were no longer at risk.
houstonpublicmedia.orgJudge loses trust in Texasโ child abuse investigation of foster care facility and calls for federal inquiry
U.S. District Judge Janis Jack said she is seeking a federal criminal investigation into allegations that children were sexually abused and trafficked at The Refuge, a state-licensed foster care shelter for victims of sex trafficking.
Texas Rangers confirm investigation into nude photos of children at Bastrop shelter but find โno evidenceโ of sex abuse
An attorney representing foster care children in a suit against Texas said Department of Public Safety director Steve McCrawโs conclusion that there was no evidence of sexual abuse despite the investigation into the photos was โboth surprising and extremely troubling.โ
Governor Abbott to hold border security briefing with sheriffs from border communities
Governor Greg Abbott will hold a border security briefing with sheriffs from border communities at 12 p.m. Saturday at the Texas State Capitol. The Governor will be joined by Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd, Adjutant General of Texas Tracy Norris, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
Gov. Greg Abbott gives update on Operation Lone Star
Gov. Greg Abbott held a news conference Thursday where he gave an update on Operation Lone Star, which was launched in early March to โhelp secure the border and combat the smuggling of people and drugs in Texas.โ The operation now also includes anti-human trafficking efforts.