U.S. House committee chair wants gun manufacturers to take personal responsibility for recent mass shootings
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing Wednesday to investigate what Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney called the gun industry's "aggressive sales and marketing of AR-15-style rifles" to the general public.
Suspect in Highland Park massacre faces 110 new charges in grand jury indictment
The suspect in the Fourth of July massacre in Highland Park now faces 110 additional criminal charges after a Lake County grand jury handed down an indictment Wednesday.
Parkland shooter penalty trial: Jail guard describes how Nikolas Cruz attacked him
As jurors watched jail security video, the guard described how Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz violently attacked him, flipping him on the ground and grabbing his Taser from his holster while in the Broward County jail.
Alex Jones' Sandy Hook defamation trial finally set to begin in Texas
Alex Jones is facing a defamation trial over his false comments that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax. Jury selection began Monday.
Parkland shooter penalty trial: Video showed Nikolas Cruz walking casually into shop minutes after massacre
Jurors in Nikolas Cruz's penalty trial watched video that showed him casually walking into a sandwich shop minutes after he murdered 17 people at his Parkland high school. He blended in with other fleeing students as they evacuated the campus — and even tried to get a ride from another student whose sister was seriously wounded in the mass shooting.
Parkland school shooter trial: Jurors see video of Nikolas Cruz's 'cold, calculated and cruel' rampage
Jurors in the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz viewed graphic security camera video of him murdering 17 people as he stalked through the building. Prosecutors said the footage showed Cruz shooting many of his victims at point-blank range, going back to some as they lay wounded on the floor to kill them with a second round of shots.
Police applaud bystander who killed Indiana mall shooter
When a gunman opened fire in the food court of an Indiana mall, killing three people and injuring two others, 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken — who had been shopping with his girlfriend — quickly pulled out his own gun and killed the shooter.
Texas DPS launches internal investigation into Uvalde mass shooting response after damning report
The Texas Department of Public Safety has ordered an internal investigation of DPS failures at the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde. 91 DPS troopers were on scene at the school shooting, according to a State House investigative report that described failures at all levels of law enforcement.
Indiana mall shooting suspect shot dead in food court by armed civilian
The 22-year-old Good Samaritan was out shopping with his girlfriend when he came across the suspect who had opened fire.
Life or death? Parkland high school shooter’s penalty trial set to begin
Four years after the deadly mass shooting that left 14 students and three staff members dead, the penalty trial for the shooter begins Monday with opening statements.
Gov. Greg Abbott: Uvalde video shows 'shocking' account of police response
Gov. Greg Abbott at an event about fentanyl was asked a lot of questions about the leak of hallway video from the Uvalde school shooting. He stopped short of making any comments about the way the video was released. But other elected officials are still explaining why they wanted to wait for the video to come out.
Communication mishap thwarts plan for 'End Gun Violence' rally at Fort Worth ISD school
It was a communication breakdown between a community activist organizer and the school district. District personnel said there was never a discussion about allowing media to be present, and things went south from there.
Families of Uvalde mass shooting victims react to leaked video
A day after surveillance video from the Uvalde mass shooting was leaked to the media, families are grappling with what they finally saw for themselves. They reacted in shock to footage that shows increasingly armed officers waiting for commands outside a classroom where children and teachers were dying.
Mass shooting survivors march for nationwide ban on assault weapons
Protestors call the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act a good start, but they want more.
Officials angered that Uvalde shooting surveillance video was obtained ahead of planned release
Both statewide and Uvalde elected leaders have said they want full transparency about what happened in the near hour and a half it took for law enforcement to kill a school shooter. They called for the release of surveillance video on their terms, but an Austin-based news outlet had it and released it anyway.
Video from inside Uvalde school shows officers milling around hallway during massacre
Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with a AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Calls grow for officials to release surveillance video from Uvalde mass school shooting
Some lawmakers and journalists have seen the full 77 minutes from the moment the shooter entered the school to the moment law enforcement finally breached the classroom and killed him. It reportedly depicts a damning account of police inaction in the face of tragedy.
Biden celebration of new gun law clouded by latest shooting
The gun legislation passed after recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. Monday’s event also comes a week after a deadly shooting in Highland Park, Illinois on July 4.
Officials agree to release some hallway video from Uvalde school shooting: report
This news comes after a battle between the city’s mayor and Texas Department of Public Safety over whether the footage should be released.
Family of Illinois parade survivor Cooper Roberts, 8: 'Tough weekend,' told him he's paralyzed
The family of Highland Park, Illinois parade victim Cooper Roberts, 8, said Sunday it's been “a very tough weekend” and that the boy is “in a great deal of pain – physically and emotionally – especially as the family had to share with him the devastating news that he is paralyzed from the waist down.”