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Vandals damaged the memorial astatine Robb Elementary School successful Uvalde this week, which was established to grant the 19 children and 2 teachers who mislaid their lives in the 2022 massacre, the second-deadliest simple schoolhouse shooting successful U.S. history.
White woody crosses bearing the victims' names and placed by grieving families to grant those mislaid were vandalized, according to the Uvalde Police Department.
Crosses acceptable up to grant those who mislaid their lives during the Robb Elementary School shooting successful Uvalde, Texas connected November 8, 2022.
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"This enactment is not lone senseless, it is cruel, and it has inflicted much symptom connected families who person already endured unimaginable loss," Uvalde Police Chief Homer Delgado said successful a societal media post. "To the families and each those hurting: We spot you, we basal with you, and we stock your heartbreak."
Delgado said constabulary were "diligently working" to place the culprits. No contiguous details connected the vandalism oregon the probe were provided.
"We volition not tolerate these continued attacks connected the dignity of our community, and we volition clasp those liable accountable," Delgado said.
Robb Elementary has remained shuttered since the May 24, 2022, shooting. The gunman, Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old erstwhile student, was fatally changeable by instrumentality enforcement aft helium barricaded himself successful a classroom.
Delgado said the schoolhouse tract is "not conscionable a location. It is simply a awesome of sorrow, resilience, and remembrance. To interruption it is to interruption the tone of Uvalde itself."
"We stay committed to protecting this assemblage — with compassion, with integrity, and with unwavering resolve," Delgado said.
Uvalde is simply a metropolis of astir 15,000 people, located astir 80 miles westbound of San Antonio.
In April, Uvalde metropolis leaders approved a $2 cardinal settlement for families of the shooting victims, marking the archetypal fiscal compensation from galore lawsuits which person been filed.
A scathing report released by Texas lawmakers determined that much than 370 officers from assorted agencies responded to the shooting, but instrumentality enforcement waited 73 minutes to face the gunman. A separate 2024 Justice Department report besides recovered "a bid of large failures" successful the response.
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Doug Myers is simply a integer contented shaper for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for 4 newspapers successful Texas and Louisiana and for 3 tv stations successful Texas. He has besides spent clip arsenic a integer contented manager for a nationalist commercialized relation and arsenic communications manager for a authorities agency.
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