Singer Katy Perry got emotional during a recent episode of American Idol after watching an audition of a mass-shooting survivor. Perry serves as a judge on the music reality show.

Katy Perry left in tears after watching gun-violence survivor’s audition: Our country has f***ing failed us!

Santa Fe High School, southeast of Houston, on Friday joined a grim list of US schools and campuses where students and staff have been gunned down, stoking a divisive US debate about gun laws

Father of Pakistani girl killed in Texas hopes her death can spur reform

Abdul Aziz learned about the US school shooting in which his 17-year-old daughter was killed from CNN, with the story airing live as he broke his Ramadan fast thousands of miles away in Pakistan

'Nightmare': Pakistan family mourns daughter killed in Texas shooting

The shooter, a student from Santa Fe High School school in Texas shot several classmates as other school students raced to hide in classrooms.

Student opens fire in Texas school, at least 8 dead