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By Christina Maxouris, CNN Alfred Garza was outside Robb Elementary School on Tuesday as the massacre unfolded, trying to stay calm even as other parents were panicking so authorities could “do their job like they asked us to,” hoping they could quickly get his daughter out of harm’s way. Inside, an 18-year-old gunman shot and

By Daniel A. Medina, Isabelle Chapman, Jeff Winter and Casey Tolan, CNN Salvador Ramos told girls he would rape them, showed off a rifle he bought, and threatened to shoot up schools in livestreams on the social media app Yubo, according to several users who witnessed the threats in recent weeks. But those users —

By Curt Devine, CNN The law enforcement official who made the decision not to breach the Uvalde elementary school classroom where a gunman was shooting children and teachers was the school district police chief, officials said Friday. Col. Steven McCraw, Texas Department of Public Safety director, didn’t mention the official’s name at a news conference

By Steve Contorno and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Allegations the Florida Department of Health fired an employee because she objected to manipulating coronavirus data were “unsubstantiated,” according to a state inspector general report. The former state data scientist, Rebekah Jones, claimed she was pressured by health department officials to falsify Covid-19 data to hide the extent

By Adrienne Broaddus, Bill Kirkos and Amanda Musa, CNN Like many children across America, Jayden Perez had practiced what to do in a mass shooting at his school. But the 10-year-old never thought it would happen. On Tuesday, it did. Just 90 minutes after he and his family celebrated his making the honor roll at

By Nora Neus, Melissa Alonso and Claire Colbert, CNN An 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend’s blood and played dead. Miah Cerrillo spoke exclusively to CNN about her horrific experience that day inside the classroom

By Melissa Alonso, CNN At least four people were killed and two others were injured Thursday night after a house exploded in a borough near Philadelphia, officials said. Two other people were unaccounted for following the home explosion, Pottstown borough manager Justin Keller said during a news conference. First-responders were called to the house just

By Priscilla Alvarez, Eric Levenson, Virginia Langmaid, Shimon Prokupecz and Nora Neus, CNN The teenage gunman in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school came out of a classroom closet and began firing when US Border Patrol agents entered the room more than an hour after the shooter began his rampage, a source familiar with the situation