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Chilling details of the chaotic and bloody aftermath of the Uvalde school massacre show how emergency medics desperately treated multiple victims wherever they could and with whatever equipment they had, according to never-before-heard interviews.Some came from off-duty or far away to back up their colleagues sent to Robb Elementary School, where classrooms had become kill zones but there were still lives to be saved.

Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell, left, confers with Jackson Police Chief James Davis during a town hall meeting to address youth crime issues in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 14, 2023.Rogelio V. Solis/AP JACKSON, Miss.The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Senate voted Tuesday to pass its version of a bill that would allow an expanded role for state police and appointed judges inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, which is led by Democrats.

The release of police body camera video on Tuesday from the deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville the day before showed a deliberate and rapid response, one that resulted in officers shooting and killing the assailant within minutes of arriving.It also prompted immediate comparisons to the police response to the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last year in which more than an hour passed between the arrival of officers and when they ultimately killed the gunman.

A tanker crash sparked a massive fire on a Baltimore County interstate Friday morning, state police and local officials said, just weeks after a deadly tanker fire about 50 miles away.Firefighters stood back as a yardslong trail of bright orange and red flames roared from the pavement, fueling thick black smoke that rose into the predawn darkness, an image released by the Baltimore County Fire Department shows.

Local Officials are calling Daniel Cambrourelis-Haskins' death an "isolated incident."A missing 19-year-old from Hopkinton was found dead in a wooded area of Milford on Tuesday, the Worcester County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday evening.Milford police previously asked for the public's help finding Daniel Cambrourelis-Haskins.

This photo provided by Louisiana State Police shows police body cam video of Shreveport Police Officer Alexander Tyler after shooting Alonzo Bagley on Feb. 3, in Shreveport, La.Louisiana State Police via AP BATON ROUGE, La.A white Louisiana police officer was arrested Thursday for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man who was trying to flee police responding to a domestic disturbance call earlier this month, authorities said.

Audience shouts and chants criticizing Oak Lawn police at Wednesday night's meeting of the village's Fire & Police Commission led to an abrupt end of the meeting.The crowded Village Hall was filled with people who accuse three Oak Lawn officers of brutality and discrimination in the July 27 arrest of a 17-year-old who fled police during a traffic stop and with people who support the officers' actions.

A New Jersey State Police trooper was shot in the leg early Thursday while on patrol near the Paterson home of Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., who called gun violence a plague on America and said he was heading back from Washington, D.C., to check on his wife and neighbors.If a shooting can happen on the street of a member of Congress, it can happen anywhere, Mr. Pascrell, a Democrat who has been in Congress since 1997, said in a statement that indicated the violence occurred feet from his house.

Twelve people were injured Saturday night when a floor collapsed at an off-campus apartment party near Indiana University of Pennsylvania, according to state police.First responders were called to the scene about a mile from the school's campus in Indiana, Pennsylvania, per the apartment complex's website just before midnight, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Clifford A. Greenfield told CNN.

A southwestern Indiana coroner is facing official misconduct and drug charges following a nearly yearlong investigation, state police said Thursday.Knox County Coroner Karen Donovan, 40, was arrested Wednesday night at her Vincennes home after detectives serving a search warrant found methamphetamine and fentanyl, Indiana State Police said in a news release.

Crime All three are wanted for homicide.Massachusetts State Police added three men to its most wanted list on Monday, and all of the men are wanted for homicide, according to a state police Facebook post.The men are 33-year-old Luis Soto, 36-year-old Jerome Fordham, and 24-year-old David Lynch.Soto is wanted for shooting two men in a Brockton Dollar Tree in January, one of whom died.

Local Joshua West was last seen near Norwich Lake in Huntington around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, according to officials.Massachusetts State Police is requesting the public's help in locating a 17-year-old who has been missing since Thursday.Joshua West was last seen near Norwich Lake in Huntington around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, the agency said.

Massachusetts State Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a car that reportedly shot at another vehicle on a highway in Worcester Wednesday night.Police said that troopers assigned to the Holden Barracks responded to reports of a blue Toyota Rav4 struck with "numerous rounds of ammunition" on Route 290 westbound in the area of Exit 16/Route 146 in Worcester on Wednesday, between 8:10 p.m. and 8:20 p.m.
Nobody was injured during the incident and police say that the suspected car is a black Cadillac sedan.

Police are asking the public for any information regarding a fatal car crash that may have been caused by two cars racing down I-93.The crash occurred Sunday night just before 9 p.m. on I-93 North in Braintree, where a black 2019 Honda Civic sedan hit a black 2018 Chevrolet Tahoe SUV, killing 46-year-old Michael Wojdag from Hanson, who was operating the Tahoe.

The man charged in the shooting of an unarmed Black man last month has resigned from the Shreveport, Louisiana, police department.Former Officer Alexander Tyler, 23, resigned from the force late last week, according to Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux.Tyler had been on administrative leave since being charged with negligent homicide after the February 3 shooting death of Alonzo Bagley.

A Michigan man who allegedly threatened on social media to kill state Attorney General Dana Nessel and other Jewish members of Michigan's government pleaded not guilty to making threatening interstate communications during his arraignment Wednesday.Jack Eugene Carpenter III was indicted last week by a federal grand jury, which also made a special finding of a hate crime motivation.

Schools In total, at least 31 schools across Massachusetts have been targeted.At least 13 more Massachusetts schools were targeted with swatting calls Wednesday - the third straight day that a slate of schools across the state received them."Swatting" is a type of fake 911 call where the caller falsely claims a violent crime is happening at a location with the goal of generating a heavy police response to that location.

The bodies of three Michigan men who disappeared on Jan. 21 after a canceled rap show in Detroit were found on Thursday at an abandoned apartment building in nearby Highland Park, Mich., the state police said on Friday.The men, Armani Kelly, Dante Wicker and Montoya Givens, were all supposed to attend a rap event at Lounge 31 in Detroit.

State Police recovered a dead body from the Charles River Thursday.He was later identified as 55-year-old Cambridge man Tale Assalif.Assalif was reported missing to Cambridge police Wednesday after he did not show up for work, State Police said in a news release.He was last seen by family members on Tuesday.

A 25-year-old hiker from California was found dead after falling from a rocky bluff along the Oregon coast and being swept into the ocean over the weekend, authorities said.Henry Minh Hoang, of West Covina, California, was hiking beyond a safety fence in an area known as the punch bowl in the Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area when he slipped and fell about 20 feet to the water's edge, Oregon State Police said in a news release.

Local The crashes occurred as wintry weather hit the region Sunday and Monday.However, it's unclear if the weather played a role in some of the crashes.At least three Massachusetts residents died in car crashes Sunday and Monday as a winter storm hit the region.However, the weather's role in the fatal crashes is unclear.

Environment The Extinction Rebellion members aimed to pressure Healey to issue a moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure.Fourteen climate change protesters who occupied Gov. Maura Healey's Office lobby after the State House closed at 5 p.m. were arrested Thursday.The protesters, a local chapter of national activist group Extinction Rebellion, aimed to pressure Healey to issue a moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure and cancel all fossil fuel infrastructure projects under construction.

The Orange Line is inconveniencing morning commuters on the road for a change, after a trailer delivering a new MBTA railcar separated from the truck hauling it.The incident happened Tuesday night on Interstate 495 northbound in Chelmsford, before Route 3, Massachusetts State Police said on Twitter.

Natick resident Joseph Franciose, 52, has been identified as the person who was struck and killed by a Commuter Rail train in Natick Monday afternoon.The Middlesex District Attorney's Office said Tuesday that authorities responded to East Central Street near the Natick/Wellesley town line shortly after 4:20 p.m.

In a previously unreported letter obtained by The Times, the head of the Virginia State Police detailed errors in his agency's hiring of Austin Lee Edwards, the now-deceased "catfish" cop who killed three people in Riverside in late November.Although Edwards had told the agency about his 2016 visit to a psychiatric facility, the agency failed to search databases for his mental health history before hiring him as an officer, Col. Gary Settle, the state police superintendent, wrote in the letter, which was addressed to a post office box associated with Virginia's inspector general.

An 18-year-old was seriously injured in a crash Tuesday night in Manchester, New Hampshire, state police said.Troopers responded to the scene on Raymond Wieczorek Drive near the intersection of Roundstone Drive shortly after 10:30 p.m.A preliminary investigation indicates that a 2007 Chevy pickup truck was disabled near the center median of Raymond Wieczorek Drive, west of the Roundstone Drive intersection, police said.

Ten guards and four inmates were killed early Sunday when gunmen in armored vehicles attacked a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas, according to state officials.The Chihuahua state prosecutor's office said in a statement that around 7 a.m.various armored vehicles arrived at the prison and gunmen opened fire on guards.

An 84-year-old man is dead after he was struck by a car while walking home in Easton Sunday night, said Easton Chief of Police Keith Boone.The man was identified as Michael Ginsberg, a resident of Easton.Ginsberg was hit around 6:45 p.m. crossing Foundry Street in Easton on his way home from local restaurant La Familia, police said.

Local It took crews two-and-a-half hours and 20,000 gallons of water to extinguish the electric vehicle fire.It took firefighters more than two hours and over 20,000 gallons of water to put out a Tesla fire following a single-car crash on Interstate 95 in Wakefield Thursday night.Wakefield fire officials and state police responded to the crash on the northbound lane near Exit 59 at 10:47 p.m., according to a press release from the Wakefield Fire Department.

A 5-year-old boy has died from injuries he sustained in a house fire on Christmas Eve, officials said.On Dec. 24, the Chicopee Fire Department responded to a fire in the area of 759 Chicopee St. Upon arrival, firefighters were informed that the boy was still inside.They rescued the boy, who was seriously injured, officials said.

Surveillance footage obtained by Boston 25 News shows the harrowing moment earlier this week when a mother realized her car had been stolen with her toddler inside in Lawrence.Boston 25 News reporter Drew Karedes shared the video on Twitter, calling it "gut wrenching."The incident took place Sunday night when the toddler's mother briefly ran in to a barber shop on South Broadway to see how her son was doing during a haircut, Boston 25 reported.

The person suspected of breaking into Shoe Supply, a sneaker boutique in Worcester, attempted to flee law enforcement but was caught in a tree, according to officials.Massachusetts State Police used an infrared camera attached to a helicopter to find the suspect.Officials released this video footage alongside a statement about the arrest.

An Oak Lawn police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of aggravated battery and official misconduct for his allegedly striking a then 17-year-old Bridgeview teen more than 10 times in the face and head as he was laying face down in the street during an arrest captured on video last July.

State police arrested a 31-year-old Boston man Monday after finding unlicensed weapons, including an AR-15-style assault rifle, in his vehicle during a traffic stop at Blue Hill Avenue, according to a release from the Massachusetts State Police.Michael Williams, who was pulled over around 3 a.m.Monday morning for allegedly running through a stop light and speeding, fled the scene when a trooper attempted to place him under arrest for operating a motor vehicle without a license, police said.