Pete Arredondo, focus of anger over allegations he delayed sending officers, tells CNN he’s been speaking regularly with investigators

The school district police chief who served as on-site commander during the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has said he is talking daily with investigators, contradicting claims from state law enforcement that he has stopped cooperating.

In a brief interview, Pete Arredondo told CNN he was speaking regularly with Texas state investigators.

Service for Amerie Jo Garza took place in afternoon and a second scheduled for the evening as 11 funerals planned for this week

The first funeral of a victim of the Uvalde elementary school shooting took place in the small Texas town on Tuesday.

The service, before a second scheduled for the evening, came a week after an 18-year-old gunman who was eventually killed by law enforcement murdered 19 children and two teachers at Robb elementary school.

Local law enforcement under scrutiny over delay in entering Uvalde classroom

New details on the apparent failure of local law enforcement to respond swiftly to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, are increasingly raising questions about police procedures introduced after the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado and how they were followed, or not.

After three days of contradictory accounts of the police response tothe attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead in the small south Texas city, it emerged that the decision by police to wait outside the classroom where the 18-year-old gunman was barricaded appears to contravene federal and state guidelines, developed over two decades, that prioritize police disabling the gunman.

Timeline suggests about 78 minutes passed from when the gunman entered school to when officers breached the classroom

Joe Biden lamented “too much violence, too much fear, too much grief” in the latest US mass shooting as he prepared to visit Uvalde, where authorities said police had made “the wrong decision” not to storm a classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.

The US president and first lady, Jill Biden, will travel to the small southern Texas city on Sunday, five days after it was plunged into horror when an 18-year-old with a military-style rifle attacked an elementary school.

Schoolchildren, teachers and family members offer graphic details of day gunman killed 19 children and two adults

Survivors of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers are beginning to share their stories, painting a graphic and horrifying picture of the tragedy that unfolded that day.

Miah Cerrillo, 11, told a CNN producer her fourth-grade class was watching Disney’s Lilo & Stitch when the gunman entered the classroom and made eye contact with her teacher and shot her dead, as well as some of her other classmates.

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McCraw, using a map of the school as a prop, says the back door at Robb elementary school was left propped open by a teacher.

Salvador Ramos, the shooter, crashed his car outside the school and began firing at two men outside, who were not hurt.

We’re here to report facts as we know them now, and not to defend what was done, or criticize what was done, or the action taken.

Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden founded Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit organization to protect kids from gun violence

The parents of children who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting – the deadliest school shooting in US history that left 26 people dead, 20 of whom were children under the age of eight – on Thursday spoke out against inaction on gun violence after a mass shooting at Robb elementary in Uvalde, Texas, this week.

In the wake of the tragedy that killed their children, Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden co-founded Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting American children from gun violence.