UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was deeply shocked and saddened by the heinous mass shooting in an elementary school in Texas, the United States, said his spokesman on Tuesday. It is particularly heart-wrenching that most of the victims are children, ...
Families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook mass shooting were awarded $72 million this week by insurers of the company that made the gun used in the attack. The settlement is remarkable because it managed to overcome a federal law that largely shields gun makers ...
Guns have been fired more than 2,000 times in schools since 1970, according to a database by the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security that tracks shootings affecting students from kindergarten through the 12th grade. For a lot of teachers, mass shooting left the...
Investigations are underway as to what succeeded and failed during the May 24th shooting, where a teenage gunman was able to gain access to the elementary school and began firing an AR-15-style rifle. The local police chief and department are also facing scrutiny for their resp...
How Do You Explain Such a Tragedy to Kids? Mass Shooting at Elementary School That Leaves Many Young Children Dead Prompts QuestionThe scenes from Sandy Hook Elementary School were heartbreaking,the facts unimaginable. And in...Schaarsmith, Amy McConnell...
The December 2012mass shootingat Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 students and six educators dead, along with the gunman and his mother, left a lasting mark on the way America thinks about school safety. It helped usher in an era of "active shooter drills" and difficult conversations...
mass shooting, Ramos reportedly messaged a teenager in Germany who he had met on Yubo, a social media app used by young people worldwide, that he planned to do something. Minutes later, Ramos messaged: "I just shot my grandma in her head. I'm going to shoot up an elementary school."...
Miah Cerrillo, a survivor of the 2022 Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, got her dream quinceañera dress through a donation from Moda 2000. Stephanie Mendez/ABC News Miah and her family returned to California this week to try on the dress one last time and take it...
The latest tragedies included a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two adults dead, and a mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 people. "The circumstances that allow for the mass murder of children are inherently political,"...
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Xinhua) -- An 18-year-old man opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde city in the U.S. state of Texas on Tuesday afternoon, leaving at least 21 people dead, including 18 children, authorities said. The shooting has again showed that the recurrent and deep-root...