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Communication breakdown: What authorities learned during the mobile mass shooting

Communication breakdown: What authorities learned during the mobile mass shooting

Communication breakdown: What authorities learned during the mobile mass shooting

On Aug. 31, 2019 a lack of communication left police departments, sheriff's offices, and DPS scrambling. Now they are working to keep that from happening again.

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Communication Breakdown Pt.3

Keeping the community safe

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Communication breakdown part 2

On August 31, a lack of communication left police departments, sheriff's offices, and DPS scrambling. Now they're working to keep that from happening again.

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Communication breakdown: Part 1

On August 31, a lack of communication left police departments, sheriff's offices and DPS scrambling. Now they're working to keep that from happening again.

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Communication breakdown: What authorities learned during the mobile mass shooting

On August 31, a lack of communication left police departments, sheriff's offices and DPS scrambling. Now they're working to keep that from happening again.

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Police reports detail events leading up to, during mobile mass shooting

Previous reports, text messages and a TikTok video-Odessa police have released reports that shed light on the mobile mass shooting.

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Art teacher sketches portraits of Leilah Hernandez for parents

Leilah Hernandez was the youngest victim of the August 31 mass shooting

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Art teacher sketches portraits of Leilah Hernandez for parents

15 year old Leilah Hernandez was the youngest victim of the August 31 mass shooting.

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Workshop provides hope and healing for survivors of mass shootings

The Onsite Foundation provides programs and workshops to help individuals and communities cope with traumatic events through health education and counseling.

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Officials release autopsy report of mobile mass shooter

The report is graphic and does not shed any new light on the day or why it happened. As such we have decided not to publish the full report outside of these details.

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Officials release autopsy report of mobile mass shooter

Officials release autopsy report of mobile mass shooter

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Judge rules ballot boxes to be opened, recounted

The boxes that will be reopened are the missing ballot box and the ballot stuck inside a machine at Manor Park.

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ECSO receives holiday cards from across 26 states

The cards show support and love for those in communities impacted by mass shootings.

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Community event hopes to provide healing in the wake of mass shooting

Rise Permian Basin is providing resources to help those impacted by the Midland-Odessa mass shooting heal.

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Youngest Odessa mass shooting victim gifted with recliners, teddy bears

Anderson's mother said her scars are healing beautifully, and a neighboring community is extending a beautiful gesture.

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Youngest Odessa mass shooting victim gifted with recliners, teddy bears

Anderson's mother says her scars are healing beautifully.

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