In a hearing, the families of victims from the Uvalde, Texas school shooting in May asked Steven McCraw of the Department of Public Safety to resign.
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Orlando Harris, 19, killed a teenage girl and an adult woman at his former school before police shot and killed him. Meanwhile, Ethan Crumbley, 16, who killed four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan, has pleaded guilty to to all 24 charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder.
Since the Uvalde school shooting, states like Iowa, New Jersey, Virginia and Wisconsin have spent millions on initiatives to correct and digitize school maps and get them in the hands of local law enforcement to keep schools safe.
The decision to spare Nikolas Cruz’ life left many outraged families questioning the purpose of the death penalty, if not for punishing the mass murderers of children.
The decision Wednesday by a Connecticut jury is Jones’ second loss. Another child’s parents were awarded nearly $50 million in an August decision in Texas.
A gunman wearing a T-shirt with a red swastika opened fire on a school in Izhevsk, Russia, on Sunday, Sept. 25, killing at least 13 people, including nine children, and himself, reports Robin Dyxon for the Washington Post.
Michael Carneal, A Kentucky man who in 1997, at the age of 14, killed three students and wounded five more at a before-school prayer group, was given the maximum sentence possible at the time for someone his age — life in prison but with the possibility of parole.
Many schools nationwide have shifted to a restorative justice model, moving away from zero-tolerance policies, which often disproportionately affect students of color.
Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo said the decision to fire him because of flaws in the police response to the May 24 school shooting was unjust because he and his officers saved as many lives as they could.
A report published by Everytown For Gun Safety, a non-partisan group advocating against gun violence, shows the last school year, between Aug. 1 and May 31, saw 193 incidents of gunfire, more than doubling the total of the previous year and rivaling any numbers recorded in nearly a decade,