School safety against targeted violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I actually want to thankour witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and your families and the other families of the families for attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that can prevent tragedies for other families, its remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which date back to about 1998 is where we had the first directed attack, numbers of 56. I know in your testimony youre talkingabout 710 shootings since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed, 12 students, one teacher, 21injured, sandy hook in 2012, 26 killed. Two were injured and parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Anthe death and casualty toll is simply unbelievable, quite honestly. I grew up in the
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. for the first time we are hearing what appears to be dispatch audio about a child trapped in the room with the uvalde shooter during the attack. now, cnn has not been able to confirm this recording first reported by abc news. you have a child on the line. the child is in the room full of victims. it is unclear what time that audio came in, but the texas public safety director says there were at least eight 911 calls from two callers coming from inside robb elementary. we now know at least 19 officers were just on the other side of the door of the classroom where a student was calling from. a texas public safety official reported the first call from a child came in at 12:03 p.m. not until 12:50, 47 minutes later did officers break in and kill the gunman. the justice department is going to investigate the local law enforcement response. a local official believes o
Cnn moments ago, the parents of the oxford, Michigan School shooter were sentenced to ten to 15 years in prison each. James and Jennifer Crumbley were both found guilty of four counts of Involuntary Manslaughter through their teenage son murdered four of his classmates back in 2021. And this is really a Landmark Case with the crumbleys being the first parents convicted and sentenced for a Mass School Shooting been committed by their child. Today, we heard emotional impact statements from the families of the victims, the crumbleys also addressing the court cnns jean casarez far as is joining us now for this gene, really emotional testimony from the Family Members of those victims today and this is the first time in this country ever that we have not only had charges and a conviction of homicide against the parents of a School Shooter. But now a sentencing for the parents of a School Shooter who didnt not pulled the trigger of a gun. Prosecution argued today before the judge for sentenci
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Seventeen white doves took flight from a parking lot in Coral Springs on Wednesday afternoon. Families and friends of the 17 victims killed at Marjory Stoneman.