The first school district police officer to confront the gunman who stormed the Santa Fe High School campus in May 2018 has been denied a federal benefit. The denial comes after retired officer John Barnes spent years waiting for an answer from the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB).

The gunman charged with murdering eight classmates, and two educators and wounding several others during a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in May of 2018 remains incompetent to stand trial.

Houston Police Department said two 16-year-olds were killed, and 3 other people, including a 13-year-old, were shot in North Houston.

The Santa Fe Independent School District Board voted unanimously to request an outside review of district safety policies and procedures more than six years after a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School claimed the lives of eight students and two educators.

Four months after the initial request, it remains uncertain whether the DOJ will review the police response to the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting. Despite support from lawmakers and victims' families, Santa Fe ISD officials are still in discussions with the DOJ about moving forward.

Following the verdict in the Santa Fe mass shooting civil trial, parents of the students killed in 2018 are undeterred in their fight to change gun storage laws.

A jury reached a verdict Monday in the civil trial against the parents of accused Santa Fe High School gunman Dimitrios Pagourtzis.

Today marks the ninth day of the civil trial against the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the accused gunman in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting. Emotional testimonies continue as the parents of the victims, including Gayle McLeod and Pam Stanich, took the stand to share memories of their loved ones and call for accountability. Join the conversation and follow our live blog for continuous updates on this emotional trial. What are your thoughts on parental responsibility in such cases?

In a message dated Tuesday, August 6, the DOJ addressed Matranga and Mayor Noto by saying “Please accept our deepest sympathies for the tragedy that occurred in your community on May 18, 2022.” The letter went on to acknowledge the error, calling its initial response to Matranga’s letter “inappropriate.”

Today marks the eighth day of the civil trial against the parents of accused Santa Fe shooter Dimitrios Pagourtzis. Rosie Stone, the mother of Chris Stone—a teen who bravely tried to help others during the tragic 2018 shooting—took the stand to share her emotional testimony. The courtroom is examining emails from Pagourtzis's mother, who described her son as a quiet and non-social child. Parents of the victims are calling for accountability, seeking justice for the 10 lives lost.

Testimonies from the parents of victims in the civil trial against the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the gunman accused of killing 10 people in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting, have wrapped up for the day.

The parents of Sabika Sheikh will testify remotely Monday in the civil trial against the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the gunman accused of killing 10 people in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting.

During opening statements of the civil trial involving the 2018 mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, the jury was told the charged gunman spent months planning his attack. That planning, jurors heard, included online searches about other school shootings, suicide, Kamikaze techniques and weapons.

Friday marked day two for witnesses to testify in the civil trial against the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the gunman accused of killing 10 people in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting.

During opening statements of the civil trial involving the 2018 mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, the jury was told the charged gunman spent months planning his attack. That planning, jurors heard, included online searches about other school shootings, suicide, Kamikaze techniques and weapons.

Several witnesses were called to the stand Thursday in the civil trial against the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the gunman accused of killing 10 people in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting.

Opening statements are set to begin Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. after a jury of 12, along with two alternates, have been seated in the civil trial against the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the gunman accused of killing 10 people in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting.

The civil trial against the parents of the accused Santa Fe High School shooter has begun, with jury selection currently in progress. Families of the victims claim the parents should have done more to prevent the tragedy. Opening statements are set for Wednesday. The trial is expected to last three weeks.

The long-awaited civil trial over the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School will begin Monday.

Victims, loved ones and witnesses of the 10 people killed in the shooting gathered Sunday night ahead of the trial.

Last week KPRC 2 Investigates reported the DOJ responded to a request sent by Mike Matranga, who is a retired Secret Service agent, former head of safety for Texas City ISD and now runs M6 Global Defense, which specializes in school security and safety. Matranga said he sent the request on behalf of the families.

Family members of those killed during the Santa Fe High School mass shooting in 2018 are expressing anger, shock and resolve after receiving a response letter from the US Department of Justice.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is urging the Department of Justice to make a decision on whether former Santa Fe ISD police officer John Barnes is entitled to certain federal benefits. Barnes was the first to confront the gunman during the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in 2018.

U.S. Rep. Randy Weber and Sen. Ted Cruz have introduced the Officer John Barnes Act to set a 270-day deadline for deciding claims filed with the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program. This legislation aims to eliminate long waits for first responders like Officer John Barnes, who has been waiting years for his benefits after being critically injured in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting.

KPRC 2's Zach Lashway and Sofia Ojeda look back on the tragic day when 19 students and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Barnes was the first officer to confront the gunman and was hit with a blast from a shotgun, which shredded an artery in his arm.

The start of the long-awaited civil trial over the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School has been postponed until mid-summer.

The alleged gunman who shot and killed ten people at Santa Fe High School in 2018 remains incompetent to stand trial.

The gunman charged with murdering eight classmates, and two educators and wounding several others during a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in May of 2018 remains incompetent to stand trial.

It’s been one year since the heartbreaking and tragic mass shooting that happened at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

A 6-year-old child has become the lone survivor of his immediate family following the tragic mass shooting in Allen at an outlet mall.

Authorities say the mass shooting at a suburban Dallas shopping mall lasted three to four minutes before a local police officer shot and killed the gunman.

A man recorded by a security camera fatally shooting his manager at a fast food restaurant in south Georgia is also suspected of killing his mother and grandmother at their nearby homes before taking his own life.

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg joined the Red Elementary School shooting survivors Thursday for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week to remember those that lost their lives in Houston’s first mass shooting 50 years ago this month.

After last-minute changes, a proposed law impacting the families of those killed during the Santa Fe High School mass shooting is moving forward.

Family members of those killed and wounded during the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School continue fighting for the release of information about what exactly happened in May 2018. A proposed law would yield some of those answers, but a hearing on the bill was canceled at the last minute this week.

The Chinese Community Center’s Lunar New Year Festival takes months of planning.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has launched an internal review over the slow response to the Uvalde school massacre.

The parents of a 2-year-old boy who got lost during the July 4 parade shooting in suburban Chicago are among the seven people who were killed, authorities said as friends and family mourned their lost loved ones.

Danish police say three people were killed and three others are in critical condition after a shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen.

“You can never ask a child to go back or a teacher to go back in that school ever,” the mayor said hours after a top Texas official called the response to the shooting an “abject failure.”

At least two people were killed and five others injured in a drive-by shooting on a family barbecue late Saturday, police in San Antonio, Texas said.

The chair of the House committee investigating the police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting said Uvalde police will cooperate with the investigation. A day prior, Republican State Rep. Dustin Burrows told reporters that cooperation was a question mark.

The state House committee investigating the police response to the mass murders at Robb Elementary School held its first session in Uvalde Thursday. All testimony given to the committee was done behind closed doors.

Governor Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that a state of disaster has been declared in the City of Uvalde following the shooting on May 24 at Robb Elementary School.

Investigators are trying to determine why an exterior door at Robb Elementary School did not lock when it was closed before a gunman used it to get inside and kill 19 students and two teachers.

The mass shooting at a Texas elementary school have invaded jury selection at the penalty trial of Florida’s campus killer.

One student was an avid runner, so fast she swept all the races at field day.

School districts across the Houston area are responding after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two adults dead.

The 18-year-old gunman who authorities say killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket had previously threatened a shooting at his high school and was sent for mental health treatment.

The coroner's office has released the names of the eight people who were fatally shot when a man opened fire at a FedEx plant in Indianapolis.

Authorities in South Carolina have confirmed that former NFL player Phillip Adams was the gunman who killed five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren in South Carolina.

Alissa is also charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at another police officer, who was unhurt. He appeared alert and attentive, moving his knees from side to side, his eyes darting back and forth from his lawyers to the judge. Many held candles and roses while locking arms or embracing at Fairview High School near the base of the snow-covered Rocky Mountain foothills. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

BOULDER, Colorado – Police on Tuesday identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect who opened fire inside a crowded Colorado supermarket, and court documents showed that he purchased an assault rifle less than a week before the attack that killed 10 people, including a police officer. Supermarket employees told investigators that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shot an elderly man multiple times outside the Boulder grocery store before going inside, according to the documents. Investigators have not established a motive, but authorities believe he was the only shooter, Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said. Hundreds of police from throughout the Denver area responded to the attack, converging on a King Soopers supermarket in a busy shopping plaza. Matthew Kirsch, the acting U.S. attorney for Colorado, pledged that “the full weight of federal law enforcement” would support the investigation.

Wauwatosa Police chief Barry Weber speaks at a news conference, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Wauwatosa, Wis. Multiple people were shot Friday afternoon at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wis., and police are still searching for the shooter. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)WAUWATOSA, Wis. – Police searched Friday evening for the suspect in a shooting at a suburban Milwaukee mall that left seven adults and a teenager injured. “Preliminary statements from witnesses indicate that the shooter is a white male in his 20s or 30s,” Weber told reporters. Police said Cole was fleeing from police; Mensah, who is also Black, said he shot Cole because Cole pointed a gun at him.