UVALDE, Texas – Southwest Texas College said an incident on its Uvalde campus earlier today left one student dead and another injured.<\/p>\n
In a statement posted to Facebook, the college confirmed emergency responders arrived promptly, and the injured student was transported for medical care.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of respect for the students and their families, the College will not release additional details or identify those involved at this time,\u201d the statement said. The college said it is cooperating fully with law enforcement as the incident is reviewed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety and well-being of students, employees, and visitors remain a top priority,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
The college extended condolences to the family and friends of the student who died and asked the community to keep those affected in their thoughts. <\/p>\n
\u201cAdditional information will be shared as appropriate and consistent with privacy protections,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
The statement was signed by Hector Gonzales, president of Southwest Texas College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UVALDE, Texas – Southwest Texas College said an incident on its Uvalde campus earlier today left one student…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-313375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}