In a story published Mar.

The first school district police officer to confront the gunman who stormed the Santa Fe High School campus in May 2018 has been denied a federal benefit. The denial comes after retired officer John Barnes spent years waiting for an answer from the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB).

During opening statements of the civil trial involving the 2018 mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, the jury was told the charged gunman spent months planning his attack. That planning, jurors heard, included online searches about other school shootings, suicide, Kamikaze techniques and weapons.

Several witnesses were called to the stand Thursday in the civil trial against the parents of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the gunman accused of killing 10 people in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is urging the Department of Justice to make a decision on whether former Santa Fe ISD police officer John Barnes is entitled to certain federal benefits. Barnes was the first to confront the gunman during the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in 2018.

U.S. Rep. Randy Weber and Sen. Ted Cruz have introduced the Officer John Barnes Act to set a 270-day deadline for deciding claims filed with the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program. This legislation aims to eliminate long waits for first responders like Officer John Barnes, who has been waiting years for his benefits after being critically injured in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting.

Barnes was the first officer to confront the gunman and was hit with a blast from a shotgun, which shredded an artery in his arm.

In this new episode of ‘The Evidence Room,’ we’ll reveal never-before-heard details about the actions of those impacted that traumatic day and take a closer look at the psychological depth of the gunman - who has yet to stand trial.

Family members of those killed and wounded during the 2018 Santa Fe High School mass shooting crowded a Galveston courtroom Thursday for a key hearing.

Wounded in the Santa Fe High School shooting, Flo Rice has found an online community of mass shooting survivors who help each other cope and heal. Uvalde residents are starting to join them.

Nearly four years after a Santa Fe High School student was accused of murdering eight classmates, two teachers, and wounding more than a dozen others, no trial date has been set in the case.