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Houston (AFP) - A damning Justice Department report on Thursday cited "critical failures" by Texas law enforcement who waited until 21 people had been killed by a mass shooter at a school before finally intervening. Nineteen young children and two teachers were killed when a teenage gunman went on a rampage at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School in May 2022 in America's worst school shooting in a decade. Police eventually shot and killed the attacker. Investigators "identified several critical failures," the report said, and "the most significant failure was that the responding officers should hav...
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Perry (United States) (AFP) - A teenager armed with a handgun and shotgun killed a fellow student and wounded five other people at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa on Thursday, authorities said. The shooting at around 7:30 am triggered a major police response as emergency vehicles and armed units rushed to Perry High School, where classes had not yet started for the day. The victim who died was in sixth grade, meaning aged 11 or 12, and was likely in the high school for a breakfast program, said Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. ...
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Perry (United States) (AFP) - A shooting on Thursday at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa left "multiple gunshot victims," local authorities said, adding the incident was over but without confirming if anyone had been killed. "We're still unclear exactly how many are injured or what the extent of those are, but we're working on that right now. There is no further danger to the public," Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante told reporters after the shooting at the Perry High School. Broadcaster ABC reported that at least one person died, without indicating if that was the shooter. T...
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Washington (AFP) - A Virginia woman whose six-year-old son shot and severely wounded his teacher was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday. Deja Taylor's son brought her gun to school in the southern US state on January 6 and shot his elementary school teacher. The teacher was hospitalized for two weeks with injuries to her hand and chest. The 26-year-old Taylor was sentenced to 21 months in prison in November after pleading guilty to illegally obtaining the firearm and making a false statement on a government form required to purchase the weapon. Taylor had claimed, falsely, on the Burea...
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Washington (AFP) - A Virginia woman whose six-year-old son shot and severely wounded his teacher was sentenced to 21 months in prison on Wednesday on gun charges. Deja Taylor's son brought her gun to school in the southern US state on January 6 and shot his elementary school teacher. The teacher was hospitalized for two weeks with injuries to her hand and chest. The 26-year-old Taylor pleaded guilty in June to illegally obtaining the firearm and making a false statement on a government form required to purchase the weapon. Taylor had claimed, falsely, on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearm...
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Irpin (Ukraine) (AFP) - Makar and Nadiya Mikhailyuk chatter excitedly as they get ready for their first day back at school in Ukraine, after they and their mother moved back from Poland. Their parents, Oleksandr and Viktoriya, decided to bring the children back to live in their hometown of Irpin outside Kyiv, which was heavily damaged by Russia's invasion but has been largely reconstructed. Nadiya, aged 6, has never had a full school day in Ukraine, while her 8-year-old brother is keen to meet his classmates again when he joins third grade. "I missed my class and teacher," he says, naming his ...
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New York (AFP) - Last year siblings Eliezer, 10, and Elaiza, 12 traveled by bus and foot through eight countries from Venezuela to the United States. Today they proudly hold graduation certificates from a New York school that has welcomed more than 100 migrant children but is now running out of space. "I'm so proud," their mother, Yeisy Sira, 33, tells AFP, after the traditional ceremony that marks the end of the academic year at their elementary public school in Manhattan. "After two months he learnt to read and now he can make sentences in English," she adds, her eyes glinting with emotion a...
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Washington (AFP) - Tennessee's Republican-led state legislature on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers who led gun control protests at the state capitol in the wake of a school shooting. US President Joe Biden condemned the action as "shocking" and an effort "to punish, silence and expel duly-elected representatives of the people of Tennessee." The pair were among what became known as the "Tennessee three" -- a trio of representatives who led protest chants a week ago from the House floor using a bullhorn, as peaceful demonstrators rallied in the gallery of the Nashville capitol buildin...
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Nashville (AFP) - Hundreds of people rallied at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville to demand stricter gun regulations on Thursday, in the wake of the latest US school shooting that left six people dead in the city this week. School shootings are strikingly common in the United States, as are calls in the aftermath for action on gun control, a hot-button political issue in the country. The crowd of demonstrators swarmed up the steep steps of the capitol building -- its flag at half mast for the victims of the shooting -- in central Nashville. "Protect our children, not guns," read signs ...
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Washington (AFP) - Twitter has temporarily restricted Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional account after the US lawmaker tweeted a graphic that referred to a "Trans Day of Vengeance" following the school shooting in Nashville. Greene, a member of the House of Representatives, posted a screenshot of the notice on her personal account on Tuesday which said some of her congressional account's features were being temporarily suspended for violating Twitter's rules. "My Congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, who are organizing a call for violence called 'Trans Day of ...
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