Fury in Texas over missing 90 minutes between 911 call and gunman’s death

Fury in Texas over missing 90 minutes between 911 call and gunman’s death

It was 11.30am when local police were first alerted that someone had opened fire outside the school. But Ramos wasn’t shot dead until 1pm,and authorities cannot say why.

  • byJake Bleiberg andJim Vertuno

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Mobile phone store manager charged over ‘dial-a-dealer’ drug syndicate

Mobile phone store manager charged over ‘dial-a-dealer’ drug syndicate

The manager of a western Sydney mobile phone store has been charged in connection with an alleged drug syndicate run by the Alameddine network.

  • byJenny Noyes
Domestic terrorism bill blocked in the US senate amid mass shootings

Domestic terrorism bill blocked in the US senate amid mass shootings

Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in a Buffalo supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde has failed in the US Senate.

  • byFarnoush Amiri andLisa Mascaro
Four charged two years after death of Omar Elomar

Four charged two years after death of Omar Elomar

Elomar was shot once in the chest in his car when he arrived at a meeting between two groups in Miller,near Liverpool,on February 15,2020.

  • byJenny Noyes andAmelia McGuire
One image says everything you need to know about America’s gun problem

One image says everything you need to know about America’s gun problem

This year alone there have been 7663 gun deaths,excluding suicide,in the United States.

A portrait of grief:The precious victims of Texas school shooting

A portrait of grief:The precious victims of Texas school shooting

Stories have begun to emerge about the lives of the 19 children and their two teachers who were gunned down behind a barricaded door at their Texas primary school.

  • byElliot Spagat andAcacia Coronado
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Shooter drills in class and guns in friends’ homes:Why Matilda,9,doesn’t miss her US school

Shooter drills in class and guns in friends’ homes:Why Matilda,9,doesn’t miss her US school

Just hours before the shooting at a Texas school in which 19 children were killed this week,schoolgirl Matilda McCullough delivered this speech to her Australian classmates about the gun drills regularly held at her US school.

  • byMatilda McCullough
Two sets of cousins among the victims of Uvalde school massacre

Two sets of cousins among the victims of Uvalde school massacre

The identities of the 19 children and two adults killed in the Robb Elementary School massacre that occurred in Uvalde,Texas are slowly being revealed.

  • byAmelia McGuire,Tyler Clifford andMarta Pascual Juanola
‘Just wait for it’:Texas gunman warned girl online he was going to shoot up school

‘Just wait for it’:Texas gunman warned girl online he was going to shoot up school

The Facebook posts were the only advance warning of the deadly rampage at a Texas elementary school,Governor Greg Abbott said.

  • byAcacia Coronado andJim Vertuno
Texas gunman was bullied over a stutter,grew increasingly violent,friends say

Texas gunman was bullied over a stutter,grew increasingly violent,friends say

Salvador Ramos was a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a stutter and strong lisp. He had a difficult home life and grew more violent,according to his friends.

  • byRobert Klemko,Silvia Foster-Frau andShawn Boburg
America:where my two-year-old was taught how to shelter from gun massacres

America:where my two-year-old was taught how to shelter from gun massacres

Covering the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 became a personal matter for my family and our young son. Today,it seems no lessons have been learnt.

  • byNick O'Malley