Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms during this week’s attack on a Texas elementary school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open a door and confront a gunman, authorities said Friday.
The commander on scene during the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school mass shooting made "the wrong decision" by not breaching the classrooms where the gunman was with students and teachers sooner, said Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, on Friday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott identified the gunman in an elementary school shooting that left at least 14 students and one teacher dead as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos during a press conference Tuesday.
A gunman motivated by political hatred against Taiwan chained shut the doors of a California church and hid firebombs inside before shooting at a gathering of mostly elderly Taiwanese parishioners, killing a man who tackled him and possibly saved dozens of lives, authorities said Monday.
In the aftermath of the horrific mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York that left 10 people dead, many corporate media outlets are focusing solely the shooter’s intentions.