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Texas school shooting: Warning signs for shooters get lost in endless grid of social media posts
•Katherine Schweit, who heads FBI's active shooter program, tells people not to ignore those type of posts, especially from children or young adults. Report it, she advises, to a school counselor, the police or even the FBI tip line
Texas school shooting: One locked door between shooter and cops; timeline of 90 minutes fuels public outrage
•After two days of providing conflicting information, investigators said that a school district police officer was not inside the campus when the shooter arrived, and, contrary to their previous reports, the officer had not confronted him outside the building
Texas school shooting: Grieving husband dies from heart attack two days after losing wife in rampage
•Joe Garcia, on Thursday, dropped off flowers at his wife Irma Garcia's memorial in Uvalde, and returned home, after which he collapsed and died
Texas shooting is new test for President Joe Biden's long battle over guns
•The tragedy has refocused Biden's presidency on one of the greatest political challenges of his career — the long fight for gun control
'Horrifying' conspiracy theories swirl around Texas shooting
•Unfounded claims that the gunman was an immigrant living in the US illegally, or transgender, quickly emerged on Twitter, Reddit and other social media platforms
Explained: Could Facebook have stopped the Texas school shooting?
•Texas governor Greg Abbott revealed that the 18-year-old gunman had posted messages about his attack on the social media platform. Facebook later revealed that the posts were one-to-one direct messages and weren’t discovered until 'after the terrible tragedy'
Grief-stricken and anguished: The scene after bloody Texas school rampage
Fp Staff •The tiny town of Uvalde in Texas was heartbroken after a teen armed with multiple weapons entered Robb Elementary School and opened fire, killing 19 children and two adults. It's yet another bleak reminder of America's gun control problem
Texas school shooting, 2012 Sandy Hook massacre and more: A look back at deadliest school attacks in the US
Fp Explainers •At least 19 students and two adults were killed at the Texas elementary school. It is the deadliest school shooting since the Sandy Hook killings, which claimed the life of 20 first-graders, between the ages of six and five, and six educators
Police profile Texas gunman, say 18-year-old shot grandmother, acted alone
•A mugshot of Salvador Ramos that circulated in local media showed a young man with brown hair, having an expressionless gaze
Texas School Shooting: LeBron James, Steve Kerr lead sports world fury
•Kerr refused to talk about his team's NBA playoff match with the Dallas Mavericks in a pre-game press conference, held hours after a teenage gunman opened fire at a school in the Texas town of Uvalde.