Robb Elementary School shooter; Salvador Ramos ... Suspect is Salvador Ramos (DOB 5/16/2004 so he just turned 18)....
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The friend said Ramos was bullied by others in school for the clothes he wore and his family's financial situation.
Eventually, Ramos started to be seen less in class.
"He would, like, not go to school ... and he just, like, slowly dropped out," the friend said. "He barely came to school."
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The 18-year-old gunman who allegedly shot and killed 19 school children and two adults at a Texas elementary school cryptically messaged a stranger “I’m about to” just hours before he opened fire on the children.
Salvador Ramos was identified as the suspect in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said. He was killed by police after the shooting.
Ramos, who attended the town’s high school, reportedly shot his grandmother before driving to the school armed with a handgun and possibly rifle, Abbott said.
A manager at a Wendy’s in Uvalde told The New York Times the Ramos worked there for a year and quit about a month ago.
He “went out of the way to keep by himself,” Mendez. The manager then pointed to two workers: “You know how my guys talk to each other and are friendly? He wasn’t like that. No one really knew him.”
Shooter allegedly tagged stranger in Instagram pic of guns
An Instagram account believed to be Ramos’ contained photos of
guns and selfies of himself. The account, with the username “salv8dor_”,
was taken down after Abbott released the name of the suspected mass
shooter.
The account’s single grid post features three photos — a mirror selfie of Ramos in a sweatshirt, a grainy black-and-white close-up of his face, and a first-person shot of a person holding a firearm magazine in their lap.
The same account shared a photo of two rifles laying side-by-side to its stories. The account tagged another user in the photo.
That user, @epnupues, said Ramos was a total stranger who tagged her in the gun photo and messaged her that he “got a lil secret”.
The Instagram user, who said she doesn’t live in Texas, questioned why he tagged her in the pic of the rifles and said she found it scary that he tagged her.
“You gonna repost my gun pics,” @sal8dor_ direct messaged the girl on May 12.
“what your guns gotta do with me,” she replied on Friday.
“Just wanted to tag you,” he said back.
Then at 5:43 a.m. Tuesday @salv8dor_ messaged her “I’m about to”.
The girl asked “about to what” to which he answered, “I’ll tell you before 11.”
He said he’d text her in an hour and urged her to respond.
“I got a lil secret I wanna tell u,” he messaged with a smiley face emoji covering its mouth.
He never told the girl his secret. His last message at 9:16 a.m. was “Ima air out”.
Robb Elementary School was locked down just hours later
About two-and-a-half hours later, Robb Elementary School was
placed on lockdown at around 11:43 a.m. local time after gunshots were
heard in the area, school officials wrote on Facebook.
About a half-hour later, the school reported an “active shooter” at the location, who was in police custody by 1:06 p.m., the Uvalde Police Department confirmed on Facebook.
Abbott confirmed that police fatally shot Ramos at the scene.
Who was Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos?
Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old from Texas who killed at least 19 children at an elementary school in the US state, reportedly acted alone.
Ramos was a student of Uvalde High School before finding work at a local outlet of fast food company Wendy's, reports CNN quoting Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas.
He was born in North Dakota, reports The Telegraph.
A photo of two AR15-style rifles was posted on the Instagram account believed to be linked to Ramos just three days before the incident, CNN reports.
The photo was posted as a story and multiple classmates confirmed that the account belonged to Salvador Ramos.
His TikTok page has only a single post of a mobile game. However, the bio under his profile picture on TikTok reads: "Kids be scared irl" or in real life, adds the CNN report.
One of Ramos' former classmates said that the killer texted him photos of a firearm and a bag full of ammunition days before the attack.
The friend said he was somewhat "close" to Ramos and would hear from him occasionally to play Xbox together.
"He would message me here and there, and four days ago he sent me a picture of the AR he was using … and a backpack full of 5.56 rounds, probably like seven mags," CNN reports quoting the friend.
"I was like, 'bro, why do you have this?' and he was like, 'Don't worry about it,'" the friend said.
"He proceeded to text me, 'I look very different now. You wouldn't recognize me,'" he added.
The friend said Ramos was bullied by others in school for the clothes he wore and his family's financial situation.
Eventually, Ramos started to be seen less in class.
"He would, like, not go to school ... and he just, like, slowly dropped out," the friend said. "He barely came to school."
The friend also said that after his own graduation, he communicated with Ramos less. But every few months, Ramos would send a text or ask to play Xbox.
Meanwhile, Adrian Mendes, the evening manager at the Wendy's outlet Ramos worked at, said that Ramos "kept to himself mostly," reports CNN.
"He felt like the quiet type, the one who doesn't say much. He didn't really socialize with the other employees," Mendes told CNN.
"He just worked, got paid, and came in to get his check."
On May 12, the 18-year-old shooter messaged a Los Angeles-based woman on Instagram, tagging her in a photo of his guns, reports The Daily Mail.
"You gonna repost my gun pics," Ramos direct messaged her.
"What your guns gotta do with me," she replied on Friday.
"Just wanted to tag you," he wrote back.
Then at 5:43am on Tuesday, Ramos messaged her and said: "I'm about to".
The girl asked "about to what" to which he answered: "I'll tell you before 11."
He said he'd text her in an hour and urged her to respond.
"I got a lil secret I wanna tell u," he messaged with a smiley face emoji covering its mouth.
"Be grateful I tagged you," he also wrote.
She replied: "No it's just scary," adding: "I barely know you and you tag me in a picture with some guns?"
His last message at 9:16am on Tuesday was "Ima air out".
The shooting started around 11:32am.
The woman reacted with horror when she learnt what he had done, The Daily Mail also reports.
"He purchased the two military-style rifles on his birthday," according to Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez, reports AP.
"That was the first thing he did on his birthday," he said.
The 18-year-old had also shot his own grandmother before heading to the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
Teen who killed 19 Texas school kids, bought guns on 18th birthday
Salvador Ramos, the teenager who murdered at least 19 children after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, bought the guns on his 18th birthday.
"He purchased the two military-style rifles on his birthday," according to Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez, reports AP.
"That was the first thing he did on his birthday," he said.
The 18-year-old had also shot his own grandmother before heading to the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
The grandmother's condition was not known yet, AP reports quoting officials.
Ramos had hinted on social media that an attack could be coming, the senator also claimed.
The senator noted that Ramos "suggested the kids should watch out," adds the AP report.
Investigators on the other hand, believe Ramos posted photos on Instagram of two guns he used in the shooting, and they were examining whether he made statements online alluding to the attack in the hours before the assault, AP reports quoting a law enforcement official.
Texas school shooting: Teenage gunman kills 19 children and teacher at elementary school
The 18-year-old suspect, who was killed apparently by police, also had shot his own grandmother before fleeing from the scene, then crashing his getaway car and launching a bloody rampage at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, about 80 miles (130 km) west of San Antonio.
Texas school shooting live
Law enforcement officers saw the gunman, clad in body armor, emerge from his crashed vehicle carrying a rifle and "engaged" the suspect, who nevertheless managed to charge into the school and open fire, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Sergeant Erick Estrada said on CNN.
Speaking from the White House hours later, a visibly shaken US President Joe Biden urged Americans to stand up to the politically powerful US gun lobby, which he blamed for blocking enactment of tougher "common-sense" firearms safety laws.
Biden ordered flags flown at half-staff daily until sunset on Saturday in observance of the tragedy.
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Governor Greg Abbott said that the suspect, identified as Salvador Ramos, was apparently killed by police officers, and that two officers were struck by gunfire, though the governor said their injuries were not serious.
Authorities said the suspect acted alone.
After confusing early accounts of the death toll, the state attorney general's office in an official statement put the tally of lives lost at 18 children and two adults, including the gunman. A Texas DPS spokesperson later told CNN that 19 school children and two adults were killed, not counting the shooter.
The school's student body consists of children in the second, third and fourth grades, according to Pete Arredondo, chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, who also addressed reporters. Pupils in those grades would likely have ranged in age from 7 to 10.
The carnage unfolded 10 days after 10 people were killed in Buffalo, New York, in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Authorities have charged an 18-year-old man who they said had traveled hundreds of miles to Buffalo and opened fire with an assault-style rifle at a grocery store.
Tuesday's bloodshed in Texas began when the suspect shot his grandmother before going to the school, Texas Department of Public Safety officer Chris Olivarez said on Fox News, a development Abbott mentioned earlier in the day.
"I have no further information about the connection between those two shootings," the governor said.
University Hospital in San Antonio said on Twitter that it had received two patients from the shooting in Uvalde, a 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl, both listed in critical condition.
Uvalde Memorial Hospital said 15 students from Robb Elementary were treated in its emergency room, with two transferred to San Antonio for further care, while a third patient transfer was pending. It was not immediately clear whether all of those students survived.
A 45-year-old victim grazed by a bullet was also hospitalized at Uvalde Memorial, the hospital said.
Hours after the shooting, police had cordoned off the school with yellow tape. Police cruisers and emergency vehicles were scattered around the perimeter of the school grounds. Uniformed personnel stood in small clusters, some in camouflage carrying semi-automatic weapons.
Epidemic of gun violence
The rampage was the latest in a series of mass school shootings that have fueled a fierce debate between advocates of tighter gun controls and those who oppose any legislation that could compromise the constitutional right of Americans to bear arms.
The shooting in Texas was one of the deadliest at a US school since a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December 2012. In 2018, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 students and educators.
Firearms became the leading cause of death for US children and adolescents in 2020, surpassing motor vehicle accidents, according to a University of Michigan research letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine last month.
The day's horrors were reflected on the Facebook page of Robb Elementary School.
Earlier this week, its posts showed the usual student activities - a trip to the zoo for second-graders and a save-the-date for a gifted-and-talented showcase. But on Tuesday, a note was posted at 11:43 a.m.: "Please know at this time Robb Elementary is under a Lockdown Status due to gunshots in the area. The students and staff are safe in the building."
A second post was more explicit: "There is an active shooter at Robb Elementary. Law enforcement is on site." Administrators asked parents to stay away. And finally, a note was posted advising parents that they could meet their children at the small city's civic center.
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