Shimon Prokupecz - Senior Crime and Justice Correspondent
Shimon Prokupecz
Senior Crime and Justice Correspondent
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• Video 0:53Video CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz shows where Portland protests have been taking place 0:53Oct 7, 2025Legal battles erupt over the White House’s aim to deploy the National Guard to Portland and Chicago. CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz reports from Oregon. -
What we’ve learned from the recently released Uvalde docs after CNN first uncovered themOct 2, 2025More than 2,000 pages of documents were released Wednesday by the school district in Uvalde, Texas, weeks after CNN’s exclusive reporting showed the district’s lawyers withheld records the school board and a court had ordered to be released in the wake of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in May 2022. -
A Bronx high-rise partially collapses, raising concerns about public housing safetyOct 2, 2025An explosion at a New York City apartment building blew off a floor-to-roof chunk of the high-rise – terrifying residents in the Bronx and fueling frustration and outrage as to how this could have happened. -
• For Subscribers For SubscribersFor Subscribers She did the work of a hero. But this teacher says she’s been portrayed as a villain for 3 yearsSep 23, 2025Amy Marin-Franco says there’s proof she closed a door at Robb Elementary School before a massacre, but authorities in Texas have withheld it for more than three years. -
New lawyers hired by Uvalde school board amid fears of massacre ‘cover-up’Sep 9, 2025School board officials hear that one million pages of documents may need to be released about the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, as they hire a new law firm to help. -
Exclusive: School records show doors weren’t closing at Robb Elementary before Uvalde massacreSep 4, 2025Maintenance records still being withheld by the Uvalde school district show entry doors at Robb Elementary School had repeated problems before the May 2022 massacre, CNN can reveal. -
She smelled smoke, heard a bang and then saw a broken window. Tween survivor recalls the fear and chaos of Minneapolis attackAug 29, 2025For a few hours, as she slept with her parents in their bed, Chloe Francoual’s mind told her that the bullets, the screams and the terror at Annunciation Catholic Church weren’t real, and she was able to sleep. -
Thousands more documents connected to Uvalde school massacre to be released after CNN highlighted problemsAug 26, 2025Thousands more emails related to the 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, are to be released after a lawyer said a mistake had been made in withholding them. -
Exclusive: Uvalde school officials holding back key emails even after court orderAug 22, 2025Uvalde school officials are withholding documents about classroom security and a payout to the sacked police chief even after a court ordered such documents released in the wake of the May 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Texas. -
Uvalde County and school district release troves of records about the Robb Elementary shooting that left 21 people deadAug 12, 2025After a yearslong legal battle, Uvalde County and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District have released records related to the 2022 mass shooting that killed 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas. -
Hearing on deadly Texas floods reveals local officials missed emergency planning briefingAug 1, 2025All key leading officials from the Texas county hardest hit by the July 4 flash flooding that killed at least 136 people, were absent from an emergency briefing call ahead of the flash flooding incident, questioning from state lawmakers on Thursday revealed. -
Inside 345 Park Avenue when a mass killer arrivedJul 29, 2025The glittering skyscraper where hundreds work became the scene of New York City’s deadliest gun attack in 25 years when a man entered the lobby and started shooting. -
Suspect dead after at least 1 NYPD officer and 2 civilians shot, NYPD sayJul 29, 2025A gunman is believed to be dead after shooting Police are searching for a man they say shot at least one New York Police Department officer and two civilians near a corporate office building in midtown Manhattan Monday evening, multiple two law enforcement sources told CNN. -
Texas county’s emergency management coordinator was likely asleep in critical morning hours of deadly floods, sheriff saysJul 24, 2025Testimony will be heard from those in charge of managing rivers as well as emergency managers and first responders about the flash flooding that killed at least 135 people. -
• For Subscribers For SubscribersFor Subscribers How immigration agents tried to build the case that Columbia University was ‘harboring aliens’May 15, 2025Teams of federal agents checked databases, obtained photographs, knocked on doors and heard what they thought was a woman speaking with an Indian accent. They also conducted days of surveillance and subpoenaed video footage and access card data as they tried to build a case that Columbia University was illegally sheltering students said to be harmful to the United States, newly unsealed court documents show. -
11 Syracuse high school athletes charged with unlawful imprisonment misdemeanor over alleged hazingMay 2, 2025Eleven Westhill High School lacrosse players have been charged with unlawful imprisonment in the second degree — a misdemeanor — due to their alleged involvement in the extreme hazing of five younger teammates, according to a partially redacted complaint Thursday by the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office and the Onondaga County District Attorney’s office.
About
Shimon Prokupecz is an award-winning journalist and CNN’s senior crime and justice correspondent. Based in New York, he principally covers law enforcement and breaking national news stories, where his standout reporting has garnered accolades and acclaim from the Emmy’s, Peabody’s, and George Polk Awards.
In May 2022, Prokupecz led the network’s months-long coverage of the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where he garnered numerous exclusives and relentlessly pursued the glaring, unanswered questions about the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooter who killed 19 children and two teachers. His gut-wrenching interview with one surviving teacher underscored the horrific question, “Why didn’t anyone help sooner?â€, and resulted in the review of law enforcement and school officials’ roles in the tragedy. Prokupecz and his team’s groundbreaking Uvalde reporting received a George Polk Award for National Television Reporting, and also won a Peabody Award.
In addition to Uvalde, Prokupecz has been at the forefront of multiple major mass shootings for the network, including the New York City subway shooting, the Buffalo supermarket shooting, Pulse Nightclub shooting, and the school shooting in Oxford, Michigan, where he continued to break news and gained exclusive footage of the shooter’s parents’ arrest.
Prokupecz was also a member of the Emmy-award winning team that captured the FBI raid on Roger Stone’s home in 2019, and has covered numerous national stories including the George Floyd Protests, Mueller Investigation, the Justice Department bringing charges against Senator Robert Menendez, Pulse Nightclub shooting, and more.
Previously, Prokupecz was based in the network’s Washington, D.C. bureau, where he played an integral role in covering the investigation examining Russian meddling in U.S. elections.
Prokupecz began his CNN career in 2013 as a justice producer in Washington, D.C., before relocating to the network’s New York bureau as a law enforcement producer where he covered the New York Police Department, FBI, and various law enforcement agencies in the Northeast U.S.
Prior to joining CNN, Prokupecz worked as a producer at WNBC and as an assignment editor at WABC in New York City. He previously served as a paralegal in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.
Prokupecz is from Brooklyn, New York and is a graduate of Hunter College.