Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old who celebrated his birthday last week, killed 19 children, 2 teachers, and injured 13 others, including police, using a rifle and a handgun. Witnesses say as soon as he came in the door, he shot anyone who was in his way.
THE GRANDFATHER SPEAKS ABOUT HIS GRANDSON
Rolando Reyes, 72, the Uvalde killer’s grandfather, spoke to the media about his grandson. He said there was no suggestion that something was wrong on Tuesday, the morning of the murders. Mr. Reyes claimed Salvador had a minor argument with his grandmother.
The minor argument included Salvador shooting his grandmother in the forehead. She will undergo surgery today.
The suspect lived in a front room and slept on a mattress on the floor, according to Reyes. The suspect had been staying with his grandparents after having a falling out with his mother.
Mr. Reyes said that his grandson was quiet and he doesn’t seem to know much about him. He himself is a felon and cannot have guns but claims he didn’t know his grandson had guns. “I’m against all that,” he said.
Salvador didn’t go to school last year and was a senior in the high school in Uvalde.
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THE LONER WHO WAS BULLIED
Salvador was a loner who suffered through a difficult home life with a drug-addicted mother. He was bullied as a teen due to his lisp and stutter and social awkwardness.
Neighbors and students described strange behavior on his part.
HE JUST KEPT GETTING WORSE
Speaking with the Washington Post, a childhood friend of Ramos who used to play video games and sports with him said he would often exhibit strange behavior, even cutting up his own face for “fun” on one occasion. That same friend said Ramos would often drive around town with another friend at night, shooting random people with a BB gun and egging people’s cars.
Another former friend told the Post that Ramos was bullied incessantly in middle school and junior high before he eventually stopped going to school. One time, he posted a picture on social media wearing black eyeliner.
Students said he just kept getting worse.
One high school classmate said that in recent months, Ramos posted videos on Instagram “where the cops were there and he’d call his mom a b***h and say she wanted to kick him out.” The classmate added that in the videos, “He’d be screaming and talking to his mom really aggressively.”
He worked at a local Wendy’s restaurant, where co-workers remembered him as a mostly quiet kid with “an aggressive streak,” according to the Daily Beast.
He was often rude to girls, threatening them, saying “Do you know who I am?”
Four days before the shooting Salvador was on Instagram in photos posing with his guns.
On Tuesday, the day of the attack, he posted another photo of the rifles on Instagram and tagged a random girl who lives in California, the New York Post reported.
He then messaged the girl, urging her to repost the image.
Early Tuesday morning, Ramos messaged her again, saying, “I’m about to.” The girl asked “about to what” to which he answered, “I’ll tell you before 11.”
“I got a lil secret I wanna tell u,” he wrote in another message, accompanied by a smiley-face emoji covering its mouth. He never shared the secret, but sent one last message at 9:16 a.m., saying, “Ima air out.”
The report that Salvador was wearing body armor is mistaken.
VIDEO EMERGES
A video emerged on Facebook of what might have caught the killer entering the school.
“What my girls just sent me this is at Robb. Prayers for the kids and staff,” wrote Elsa G. Ruiz, who shared the video on Facebook.
Ramos murdered 19 elementary school children and two teachers, motive unknown
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This is a complex issue and no, gun control is NOT the answer. In Chicago, you can’t buy a gun, you can’t buy ammo, every weekend, 30+ people are shot. Some mothers have their children sleep on floors to avoid drive by shootings.
This guy was bullied. Bullying, teasing has ALWAYS happened among children. As kids, we complained to our parents, we were told, “sticks and stones….” Now, speech, WORDS, in the “land of the free,” have been transformed into criminal acts. Kids have been ultra-sensitized to speech, words.
In the 1970’s, there were mental hospitals all over the country. Since then, nearly EVERY mental institution has been shut down. Originally, mental patients were sent to community group homes, a “kinder, gentler,” approach. NON-SENSE, FUNDING for these hospitals were diverted … to where is anybody’s guess. Then again, our “elected officials,” enter as those of modest means and leave as multi-millionaires. You figure it out.
I did my psych rotation many years ago at Kings Park Hospital. In a TV room with a group of patients soon to be released to group homes, WITH security, it was an unnerving experience because it was quite evident, these people were severely deranged AND DANGEROUS. They would be ad lib to just walk away from those group homes … and they did. Suddenly, we saw something never before evident. There were, “bag people,” walking the streets of every town and neighborhood.
“See something, say something,” more ridiculousness. THERE ARE NO PSYCHIATRIC, INPATIENT BEDS ANYWHERE. You can report the insane all day long to police, there is no place to put them. Stony Brook has a psych unit with very limited beds. Patients can be held for 72 hours only, they are then released upon an unsuspecting public.
Now, the recourse is to wait until they maim, murder, assault, rape, are arrested and maybe, MAYBE held longer than it takes for police to do the paperwork.
One more thing, you can THANK the DNC and MSM for much of this. It is no coincidence that MOST mass shooters are Democrat or Dem leaning. It was predominantly during the Obama years that the political atmosphere changed significantly. It was no longer a matter of two major parties with differing opinions. It was OBAMA who began referring to Republicans as, “THE ENEMY.” HIS WORDS.
“Get up in their faces,” Obama first, then Maxine Waters, Cory “Spartacus” Booker, the fiery rhetoric coming from the Left, magnified by every MSM outlet, IS THERE ANY WONDER these mass shootings keep happening?
Nearly every mass shooter have a few things in common: They are either Democrats or Left leaning; NONE of them are NRA members; they ALWAYS select gun free zones … they may be crazy but they are not stupid. You do not see this when there will be other armed citizens.
Just another kid who who fell through the cracks of a one size fits all school system. Why was he bulled at school? whey didn’t he get language training to overcome his speech problems. Why were the other children so insensitive? Why are we raising our children to be insensitive? What we are seeing is a Collapse of Culture. This is what all Centralized Big Governments delivers to people. It only gets worse when Big Government takes your guns away! When Government has all the guns, Government is no longer scared of The People.
We need heart control not gun control.