Uvalde

Former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales had faced 29 charges of child abandonment and endangerment. More

January 22, 2026

UPDATE: Former Uvalde School District Police Officer Adrian Gonzales was acquitted of all 29 counts of child endangerment and abandonment. More

January 21, 2026

The trove of documents, which Uvalde authorities spent years fighting to withhold, offer a deeper portrait of the teenage gunman and on-scene communications. More

August 13, 2025

Adrian Gonzales pleaded not guilty to charges of failing to take action as a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside a classroom. More

July 25, 2024

The city of Uvalde said in a statement that it had requested the federal investigation and fully cooperated with it. More

January 19, 2024

Sandra Torres filed a federal lawsuit against police, school district and maker of the gun the shooter used in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre. More

November 28, 2022

Police commander at scene of Uvalde massacre was told kids were alive in a classroom with the gunman over 30 minutes before cops breached the room. More

November 15, 2022

Uvalde's school district superintendent will resign by the end of the academic year following outrage over the botched response to last May's massacre. More

October 11, 2022

Uvalde school district suspends entire police force amid outrage over hiring of former trooper who was part of the slow response to the May shooting. More

October 7, 2022

Ex Texas state trooper Crimson Elizondo, part of the response under investigation for actions during the Uvalde shooting, was hired as a campus cop. More

October 6, 2022

A federal lawsuit has been filed over the shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. More

September 29, 2022

The survivors who were able to walk out of Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly a decade ago want to share a message of hope with the children of Uvalde. More

September 7, 2022

Lawmakers crafted a major bipartisan law on gun violence. The measure, signed by President Joe Biden, was part of a response to a string of shootings over the summer, including the slaying of 19 children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The package included tougher background checks for the youngest gun buyers and help for states to put in place “red flag” laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous. More

September 6, 2022

Students in Uvalde went back to school Tuesday for the first time since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a classroom attack. More

September 6, 2022

The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arrendondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom. More

August 24, 2022

When the shooting began at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Mario Jimenez’s son was in the classroom next door. The 10-year-old saw his teacher and a friend hit by bullets that passed through the wall. Now, Jimenez worries the boy will never again feel secure in a classroom. More

July 20, 2022

The Uvalde, Texas, gunman gave off so many warning signs that he was obsessed with violence and notoriety in the months leading up to the attack that teens who knew him began calling him “school shooter.” More

July 18, 2022

Texas state Rep. Joe Moody came to the defense of Ruben Ruiz after the officer was singled out by some users on social media as an example of the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May 24 attack. More

July 14, 2022

The footage from a hallway camera inside the school shows the gunman entering the building with an AR-15 style rifle and includes 911 tape of a teacher screaming, “Get down! Get in your rooms! Get in your rooms!” More

July 12, 2022

The mayor of Uvalde disputed a report that alleges missed chances to quickly end the massacre at a Texas elementary school. More

July 8, 2022

“I’m here begging for you guys to do something,” said Jazmin Cazares, whose young sister Jacklyn was one of 19 children shot to death in the 80 minutes the gunman spent inside Robb Elementary School on May 24. More

June 23, 2022

The Uvalde school district’s police chief was put on leave Wednesday following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead. More

June 22, 2022

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 found the door to the classroom where he was holed up unlocked if they had bothered to check it. More

June 21, 2022

Multiple police officers armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield stood and waited in a school hallway for nearly an hour while a gunman carried out a massacre of 19 elementary students and two teachers. More

June 20, 2022

A legislative committee investigating the deadly shooting at a Texas elementary school last month is set to hear more testimony from law enforcement officers. More

June 20, 2022

(Video by Newsy) WASHINGTON (AP) — Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey made an appearance at the White House Tuesday to call on Congress to “reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation in honor of the children and teachers killed in last month’s shooting rampage at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas. […] More

June 10, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history says in his first extensive published comments that he didn't consider himself the incident commander as the massacre unfolded. More

June 10, 2022

The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded. More

June 3, 2022

Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week in an effort to bring home the devastation of America's gun violence epidemic. More

June 3, 2022