Families and friends are remembering the Saugus shooting on the four year mark. “Not a day goes by without a yearning in our hearts to hold our babies one more time. Not a day goes by without missing the laughter and joy you both brought to ours, and so many other lives.”  Tuesday morning, four bouquets of flowers lay on ...

Sheriff Robert Luna presented medals to deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) including two retired SCV personnel for their “courageous acts” during the active shooting incident at Saugus High School at the 2023 Medal of Valor Awards.  The annual Valor Awards Ceremony saw Sheriff Luna awarding the “highest honors” to the deputies of the LASD alongside retired ...

A joint lawsuit brought by the parents of two students killed on November 14, 2019, in the Saugus  High School Shooting is likely to proceed to trial, according to a preliminary Los Angeles Superior Court ruling. The parents of Gracie Muehlberger, 15, and Dominic Blackwell, 14, allege that the William S. Hart Union High School District missed “numerous red flags” ...

Saugus High School Celebrated the graduation of hundreds of students in the Class of 2023 on Wednesday, but the celebrations were tempered by the somber recognition that two students would never receive their diplomas due to gun violence. On the morning of Nov. 14, 2019, a 16-year-old student walked into the quad of Saugus High School, pulled a .45-caliber semi-automatic ...

Saugus High School senior Katie Rey released a song she wrote about the Saugus High School Shooting on the third anniversary of the incident. Rey joined the KHTS Morning Show on the third anniversary of the Saugus shooting to discuss her song “Peace,” which is about her experiences during the 2019 Saugus High School Shooting. The then-freshman was in the ...

Sandy Hook Promise’s “Teenage Dream” won Emmy Awards’ Outstanding Commercial honor for 2022, featuring appearances from teenage survivors of school shootings, including a survivor of the 2019 Saugus High School Shooting. On Sunday, Sandy Hook Promise’s “Teenage Dream” PSA was selected as the winner of the Outstanding Commercial Award, as celebrated in an announcement by Saugus High School Shooting survivor ...

A mile-long school bus procession stopped at Senator Ted Cruz’s house in Houston on Thursday– 4,368 empty seats symbolizing the thousands of children killed by gun violence in the last two years, while memorializing two teens who lost their lives here in our very own Santa Clarita Valley.  A gun control and anti-gun violence advocacy organization organized a mile-long convoy ...

With school safety expectations shattered following local and national gunfire on school grounds, the “Saugus Strong Act” – introduced by Santa Clarita Assemblywoman Suzette Valladares –  aims to reinstill hope in campus safety with a 24/7 crisis center.  Even with the Wiliam S. Hart Union High School District doubling down on emergency training and introducing bullet-resistant window film at each ...

Saugus High school shooting survivor Mia Tretta introduced President Joe Biden during a press conference in the White House Gardens on Monday, announcing new regulations to manage unserialized “ghost guns” like the one used in the Saugus shooting. In 2019, a 16-year-old student at Saugus High School shot and killed two other students, and injured three others, including Tretta, before ...

Two memorial obelisks installed at the entrance to Santa Clarita Central Park were revealed to the public on Friday by the families of the two children who were killed in the Saugus High School Shooting. The families of Saugus High School Shooting victims Gracie Muehlberger and Dominic Blackwell were joined by members of the community and local officials on Friday ...