In the first in this five-part series, we look at the town of Uvalde, and the first moments before a normal school day goes from calm to terrifying.

Videos:

• Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response
• Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics
• Cell phone video of the parents imploring the police to do something
• Disturbing new footage shows Salvador Ramos in Uvalde school, cops running | New York Post
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• Video: Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke clash over Uvalde deaths as governor provides more details on school shooting

Articles and books:

• Before the school shooting, Uvalde was known for a 1970 Hispanic student walkout. Its aging participants fear its spirit and memory are fading.
• Timeline of the events leading up to, including, and following the attack on Robb Elementary
• Department of Justice: Critical Incident Review
• Uvalde buries 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, the first of many funerals to come
• Texas cops’ claims unravel: Police didn’t "engage" Uvalde shooter — but they cuffed scared parents
• Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre
• Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust
• Mom who saved her kids from Uvalde school shooting says police are targeting her
• NRA holds convention in Houston days after Texas school shooting
• Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online
• The Pulitzer Prize: The Washington Post's winning 2023 series on the damage caused by AR-15s
• Nearly two years after the Uvalde massacre, here’s who has been reprimanded and where investigations stand
• Uvalde school shooter’s self-proclaimed ex accused of making threats against the community
• Uvalde victim's uncle elected to school board nearly two years after shooting
• Uvalde mayor abruptly resigns ahead of a council vote on shooting report
• 21 lives lost: Uvalde victims were a cross-section of a small, mostly Latino town in South Texas
• Teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter arrested and accused of threatening to do 'the same thing'
• Uvalde schools hire — and then fire — former DPS trooper under investigation for shooting response
• The Gunman in Uvalde Left Multiple Hints Before His Attack Began