Uvalde
Markle has kept in touch with families in the Texas city since the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School.
The independent investigator said he found no wrongdoing by any Uvalde police officers.
Uvalde County Constable Emmanuel Zamora and Sheriff Ruben Nolasco were both highlighted for their inaction during a shooting at Robb Elementary.
A Texas prosecutor has convened a grand jury to investigate the Uvalde school shooting that killed 21 people, multiple media reported Friday.
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Justice Department Report Finds 'Cascading Failures' And 'No Urgency' During Uvalde, Texas, Shooting
The DOJ said police officials “demonstrated no urgency” in setting up a command post and failed to treat it as an active shooter situation.
More than two decades after Columbine, law enforcement’s chaotic response in Uvalde and officers’ explanations of their inaction show that the promise of adequate training to respond to a mass shooting has yet to be fully realized.
A vision of putting an armed guard at every school in Texas is crashing into the reality of not enough police or funding.
“You know what back to school season brings us? Memories that our children died a gruesome horrific death and you did absolutely nothing except tell us that ‘it could have been worse.'"
A 17-year-old is accused of threatening to commit a mass shooting at an elementary school across the street from where he lives in San Antonio.
A criminal investigation in Texas over the hesitant police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting is still ongoing a year after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde.