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News Articles: school shooting

Police respond to a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.

27 school shootings have taken place so far this year

A shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, marks the 27th such school shooting in the U.S. this year.

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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Law enforcement work the scene on Tuesday after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

All of the Uvalde school shooting victims were in the same 4th grade classroom

The 19 students and two teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, shooting were all in the same classroom, Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN on Wednesday.

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  • Rachel Treisman
James Crumbley, far right, and Jennifer Crumbley, far left, sit with their attorneys in district court in Rochester Hills, Mich., on Tuesday for a probable cause conference in the case of the Oxford High School mass shooting.

The parents of the Michigan school shooting suspect make a court appearance

The parents of Oxford High School student Ethan Crumbley made a brief appearance in court on Tuesday related to their four involuntary manslaughter charges.

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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Jonathan Franklin
A makeshift memorial sits outside Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., last week.

Oxford shooting victim's family files $100 million suit, saying the school failed her

The lawsuit says "multiple concerned parents" alerted school officials to violent threats two weeks before the shooting at the Michigan high school, only to be told there was no reason to worry.

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  • Bill Chappell
Relatives of students who attend a school in the Russian city of Kazan, where a gunman opened fire on Tuesday, killing several students and at least one teacher and injuring more than 20 others.

At Least 9 Dead In School Shooting In Russia

Officials say a 19-year-old former student at a school in the Russian city of Kazan opened fire there Tuesday, killing at least seven students, a teacher and a school worker.

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  • Scott Neuman and
  • Lucian Kim
A Broward County Sheriff's Office vehicle is parked outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla.

In Florida, Schools Under Pressure To Get Rid Of Police Officers

The demands by student activists face what could be an insurmountable obstacle: security fears in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.

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  • Jessica Bakeman

Should Teachers Be Armed?

Saturday marks two months since a school shooting killed 17 students and educators in Parkland, Florida. Since then, we’ve heard public outrage...

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This screenshot from NBC L.A. shows students gathered outside North Park Elementary School following a shooting at the school on Monday, April 10, 2017.

Officials: Teacher, 2 Students Shot At San Bernardino School

Four people were shot Monday in an apparent murder-suicide inside an elementary school classroom in San Bernardino, including a teacher and two students...

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  • Associated Press