"I don't care if you have on flip-flops and Bermuda shorts, you go in," Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said in testimony at a state Senate hearing.
June 21, 2022
The city and its police department are arguing against the release of the requested records, citing the following reasons: the city is being sued, some individuals' criminal history records could include "highly embarrassing information"; some of the information could reveal police "methods, techniques, and strategies for preventing and predicting crime..."
June 20, 2022
Surveillance video seems to show that the first time anyone tried to breach the doorway was when they had received the keys, more than an hour after the shooting began.
June 20, 2022
“I didn’t issue any orders,” Arredondo says. “I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door.”
June 10, 2022
The assessment will examine issues including policies, training, communications, deployment and incident command, tactics, and practices as they relate to preparing for and responding to active shooter events, as well as the post-incident response.
June 9, 2022
The San Antonio Police Department says the officer responding to the incident was driving at high speeds over a hill when they crashed into the tow truck.
June 9, 2022
A federal appeals court ruled in January that "qualified immunity" should not protect the officers from potential liability resulting from the death of Timpa, a man with mental illness who died after being restrained for nearly 14 minutes by the officers.
June 1, 2022
The investigation of the massacre is ongoing, but much is already known about the nearly two hours that passed between when authorities say Salvador Ramos shot his grandmother and when police radio traffic indicated that the 18-year-old gunman was dead.
May 30, 2022
“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” Anthony Coley, a spokesperson for the U.S. Justice Department, wrote in a statement Sunday.
May 30, 2022
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw cited video footage and audio evidence to reconstruct the chain of events in Tuesday's active shooter attack on Robb Elementary School.
May 27, 2022