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local 4 news starts now with a breaking
news alert
the death toll rising in texas now 19
children dead all believed to be 10
years old or younger my heart was broken
today
we're a small community
and we will need your prayers to get us
through this president biden addressing
the nation tonight demanding new gun
laws when in god's name
we do we all know and our gut needs to
be done
as we come to you tonight at 11 we've
just learned two teachers were also
killed in the attack with another two
people in the hospital tonight and that
includes a ten-year-old girl
investigators say the shooting happened
around 12 30 eastern time at robb
elementary
in uvalde that's about 90 minutes from
san antonio the 18 year old gunman is
believed to have acted alone and was
killed by responding officers texas
governor saying the gunman who was by
the way a high school student in the
community shot his grandmother before
heading to the school bree jackson
following the latest developments
tonight
president biden tonight addressing
today's mass shooting at an elementary
school in texas the commander in chief
consoling the nation after the tragedy
of innocent victims being gunned down to
lose a child
is like having a piece of your soul
ripped away authorities identified the
gunman officials say he abandoned his
vehicle entered the school with a
handgun and possibly a rifle he was
later shot and killed by police
responding to the shooting we're in the
process of obtaining detailed background
information on the subject this horrific
scene happened at robb elementary in
uvalde texas an area less than 100 miles
west of san antonio we are seeing
way too many of these horrific mass
murders the tragedy comes a week after a
mass shooting at a grocery store in
buffalo new york and more than a decade
after the shooting at sandy hook
elementary school this latest shooting
is renewing passionate debates over gun
control legislation find a path forward
here
work with us
to find a way
to pass laws that make this less likely
president biden calling for action to
prevent future tragedies don't tell me
we can't have an impact on this carnage
a country once again experiencing
unimaginable loss
in washington i'm bree jackson for local
four
all right bri and not even six months
ago we had our own tragedy here in metro
detroit four students killed at oxford
high school with another seven wounded
at tonight's oxford school board meeting
board president tom donnelly started the
meeting with a moment of silence
the first thing that we would want to do
is um
have a moment of just silent reflection
and prayer for
uh
those who have experienced um
something o2 familiar to us down in
texas
so please
it was oakland county deputies who were
first on the scene the day of the
shooting at oxford high school tomorrow
morning sheriff mike bouchard will join
us live sharing his experiences and his
reflections on the tragedy and how
community can heal tomorrow morning at 7
15 on local 4 plus
more news tonight families at an ecorse
apartment complex say they're living in
fear amid a rise in violent crime at the
complex and this isn't the first time
they're speaking out pamela osborne is
live tonight with the new concerns
surrounding the renaissance estates of
e-course pam
well kimberly it's not just residents
that have their concerns it's actually
the managers of this property they are
doing everything they can to keep their
residents safe after several shootings
this is what they shot out in the bully
head this is the path of the bullet that
changed ebony stevens life and it was a
fight going on altercation stevens was
sitting in her suv last month at the
renaissance estates of e-course her
three-year-old son was in the back seat
when a man pulled out a gun i think
about every second her jaw pinned in
place a trach still there and so is her
feeding tube i spent like two days you
could stay in a coma and then i woke up
and then after that i spent two weeks in
the hospital she was released from the
hospital last friday to find not much
has changed we were contacted by
residents after three straight days of
shooting we got there minutes after a
fourth reported shooting took place and
found shell casings on the ground we've
got to be in the house at a certain time
whatever because they're coming out of
whatever shoe at least 20 of the 200
units have bullet holes forcing some
families to move out and others to stay
silent mothers we spoke to say they're
afraid their children will get shot we
were at this apartment complex back in
august over similar concerns of violence
this time property managers with kmg
prestige wanted to be on the record they
say they've spent tens of thousands of
dollars on private security and the last
company quit after their car was shot up
they've since hired new security and
have recently received the approval to
purchase a 60 thousand dollar camera
system that it hopes will help deter
crime
and we did reach out to the mayor of
e-course as well as the police chief
there when we didn't hear back from them
i called the city attorney and here's
what he was able to tell me he actually
was just discussing this very issue with
a deputy police chief today and what
they've decided to do are patrols in
that area two times a day they also add
that state police are going to be coming
in beginning tomorrow to do routine
checks of that neighborhood now this is
something that residents say happened
last summer after we were out there and
did that original story they said that
it helped they're hoping that it
continues to help as we approach these
warmer months when we know crime and
incidents tend to tick up reporting live
tonight i'm pamela osborne local 4. hope
it helps pam thank you tonight a school
district in santelec county is being
sued claiming a black high school
student was repeatedly harassed and
threatened all because of the color of
her skin our mara mcdonald live downtown
at the federal courthouse and mara the
crux of this case is the parents are
claiming that the district basically did
nothing to stop this
devon that's right that's all that's
detailed here in this lawsuit against
the croswell lexington district
essentially these parents are saying
look we made 20 complaints we had
multiple in-person meetings and nothing
ever changed
she begged me
she begged me to turn white
i wanted to die it's heartbreaking as a
mother that was the moment april and rob
malik said enough their
fourteen-year-old daughter who was
adopted is black and the malik say had
been tormented at school because of the
color of her skin
for months she got to a point where
she'd wake up in the morning and she's
like
okay great now what are they going to
say today what are they going to do
today as detailed in the federal lawsuit
everything from go back to the
plantation and pick cotton to we're
going to shoot all the and used a racial
slur the malicks have a long paper trail
with the croswell lexington high school
administration in the beginning
they were yeah let's let's get this done
we're going to investigate except the
mallicks and their attorney deborah
gordon say nothing was done you have
adults standing by and not taking action
like staff who were told to escort their
daughter for her safety telling her she
was quote using the race card the
district refutes these claims completely
in a statement which in part says quote
we do not tolerate harassment of any
sort including racial harassment and
quote if any alleged harassment is found
to have occurred it is immediately
inappropriately addressed and stopped
back here live before the malicks filed
this federal lawsuit not only did they
have multiple meetings with the school
district with the administration they
also appealed to the school board they
had the naacp from port huron come in
and address the school board about
issues and they say the bottom line is
nothing moved the needle we're live
downtown tonight outside the federal
courthouse amara mcdonald local 4. okay
mara four people are in custody tonight
for allegedly firing shots at detroit
police officers on the city's west side
police say they executed a search
warrant today at a house on somerset and
whittier it all started last saturday
when a man hanging out of a car near
davidson and dexter started shooting at
an officer's patrol car police say three
other people were in the shooter's car
right now it's unclear if those people
are who police have in custody james
craig is now asking michigan attorney
general dana nessl to investigate what
he believes is a planned effort to keep
him off the ballot last night at 11 we
first reported the state bureau of
elections found only 10 000 of the 21
000 signatures his campaign submitted
were actually valid the rest believed to
be forgeries he's one of five gop
gubernatorial candidates the bureau is
recommending be disqualified from the
primary ballot the board of canvassers
will meet this thursday to determine
officially the eligibility of those
candidates tonight abbott says it will
restart production of baby formula at
its michigan plan on june 4 amid a
nationwide shortage congress is expected
to tackle the shortage this week the
house and energy commerce committee has
a hearing on the shortage friday also
tomorrow another baby formula shipment
from overseas is expected to arrive here
in the united states