Arizona border city sees 7 people shot, suspect at large: report

At least seven people were reportedly shot and injured in Yuma, Arizona, located just 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Saturday night. 

ABC News reported that police responded to a call just before 11 p.m. local time about an "aggravated assault" on South J Edward Drive. 

Yuma police Lt. Craig Johnson told the outlet that seven people were transported to the hospital, and though officers didn't have a suspect in custody, there was no credible ongoing threat to the community. Fox News Digital reached out to the Yuma Police Department by phone and email early Sunday seeking details on the shooting but did not hear back before publication. 

The shooting unfolded at a time when the border city of just about 97,000 residents is dealing with a large influx of migrants surging across the border. 

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Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls appeared on Fox News on Friday to sound the alarm that Border Patrol had begun releasing migrants onto the streets a day after Title 42 expired. 

"Border Patrol in the Yuma sector has been near record number of interdictions. Yesterday was 1,550 people that they interdicted. They're over capacity by a significant amount, and they are starting released onto the streets. So not releases to NGOs that can help them. Our NGOs are overwhelmed also. So they're just releasing them onto the sidewalk essentially," Nicholls told Fox News host Neil Cavuto. "We had 100 plus or minus this morning, and then this afternoon we're looking at about another 150 in the area." 

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The mayor, a Republican, noted that FEMA has not been activated to deal with humanitarian needs of the influx of migrants. The same day, Nicholls sent a letter pleading for President Biden to declare a national emergency due to the migrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border to "protect American communities that are subject to detrimental impacts of the unfettered flow of migrants into this country." The letter notes how the state of Arizona, Yuma County and other local cities have already declared states of emergency, though Biden has not. 

"Yuma, like many communities along the border, is subject to grave lack of federal government commitment to provide effective policy under current immigration laws," Nicholls wrote. "We see the cost of illegal activity, as many migrants fall victim to cartels, who traffic both drugs and humans across the border and into the U.S. in dangerous and often deadly manners." 

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Nashville Covenant School shooter's unredacted manifesto given to judge ahead of public hearing: report

A judge in Nashville has received the unredacted manifesto of Covenant School shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale following several lawsuits demanding its release to the public, according to a local report.

Attorneys representing the city delivered the unredacted writings and a second version with proposed redactions to the Davidson County Chancellor’s chambers for review on Friday, FOX17 Nashville reported.

The release of the journals has been debated since the March 27 mass shooting in which Hale killed three 9-year-old children and three adults with two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun before being shot and killed by responding police officers. 

With no motive known, some believe Hale’s writings will help to understand why she carried out the deadly shooting. Others say there should be less focus on the manifesto and more on gun reform, while some believe the writings could create a "blueprint" for copycats.

AUTHORITIES FACE MOUNTING PRESSURE TO RELEASE NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTER'S MANIFESTO: ‘VERY PERPLEXING’

A county judge and city attorneys will hold a status conference on Thursday ahead of a June public hearing in which members of the public can express concerns over the release of the writings, the station reported.

Calls for authorities to release what Hale left behind have grown in the weeks since the shootings.

In April, Nashville police confirmed to Fox News Digital that they would release the manifesto recovered from the car of Hale, a 28-year-old transgender former student. 

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The release, however, was delayed with the police department blaming pending litigation for the holdup.

"Due to pending litigation filed this week, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has been advised by counsel to hold in abeyance the release of records related to the shooting at The Covenant School pending orders or direction of the court," the department tweeted May 3. 

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Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake previously said investigators had not immediately determined a motive, but that they believed Hale had specifically targeted the Christian school and its affiliated church. 

Fox News’s Greg Norman and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

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