Posted on 05/25/2022 8:33:33 AM PDT by Morgana
In yet another tragic mass shooting, Salvador Ramos, 18, slaughtered 19 innocent children and two much-loved teachers at Robb Elementary school, in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday before being killed in a shoot out with a Border Patrol officer and local law enforcement.
It is the second deadliest shooting in US history after the infamous Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 - which saw 26 people killed - and has once again left people asking how someone could commit such a heinous crime.
As the country tries to make sense of the tragedy, stories about Ramos are beginning to emerge from those who knew him best, painting the picture of loner with a propensity for self-harm and violence, who was from an unstable home, including an alleged drug-using mother.
Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez said in a local television interview that the school shooter was born in North Dakota, but attended high school in Uvalde.
Neighbors and classmates say his behavior spiraled into the bizarre and macabre as he entered his later teenage years, with one friend telling Good Morning America: 'He had scars on his face and someone asked him, 'Are you ok?' and he just said with a smile 'I did it myself, I liked how it looked.'
He began dressing in dark clothes and military boots and used his BB gun to target random people, one local claimed.
There are around 15,000 residents in Uvalde which sits roughly 80 miles west of San Antonio, around an hour's drive from the US-Mexico border.
The would-be mass murderer lived with his grandmother on Hood Street, less than three miles from the Robb Elementary school.
More than one-third of residents in the city live at or barely above the federal poverty line.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They ran a murderer off. He was too chicken to go to the High school. I don’t feel sorry for the son of a bitch.
Likely the father isn’t in the picture at all. But it wouldn’t make much difference in that family it appears. Dysfunctional an understatement.
However at 18 and despite the lack of a decent upbringing the guy knew what was right and wrong....
Bottom line - shot his grandmother in the face-shot 19 kids to death 2 teachers and injured 17 others.
People can go on and on about mental health, unlocked schools, bad parenting, etc etc. But in our society as it is today this will continue to happen for things are just going to get worse.
He’s dead. End of story.
A Beto Supporter?
Yeah, whatever. It didn’t work if you hadn’t noticed.
Now reported he worked full time 5 days a week.
The Heavy article quoted a female classmate that said he was a “provocateur” of the bullying. And there are passive aggressive people who do verbally provoke others into taking a swing so they they can play victim.
Bull....!
He just didn’t cease to exist soon enough.
Re: 166 - Do you have a link to that article? Thanks!
You’re making quite an assumption that any bullying was bad enough to cause this. You don’t know this, and I don’t buy it. You’re just coddling this bastard (literally?).
https://heavy.com/news/salvador-ramos/
“However, The New York Times reported that at least one classmate thought Ramos provoked other students.”
They link to the NYT.
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BREAKING: Texas DPS Director says a school resource officer ‘confronted’ but did not ‘engage’ the gunman as he entered the school
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BREAKING: Texas DPS Director says a school resource officer ‘confronted’ but did not ‘engage’ the gunman as he entered the school
If true, it would explain how he got everything he needed to do this. That or the fbi..
Re: 171 - Thanks. A broken kid from a broken family. He knew right from wrong, though.
? What does that mean?
Oh please, just stop. You're embarrassing yourself and FR.
Yeah, bullying is wrong. In my case, I got bullied for being a geeky guy in junior high school. School did nothing other than ‘talk to them’. School policies would not allow me to openly defend myself on pain of expulsion for ‘resorting to violence’.
Those bullies ended up mysteriously falling out of windows and down multiple flights of stairs. Can’t imagine how that could happen.
We had a similar case where a bullied kid joined a gang, got weapons, and *killed* his bullies off campus because nobody would do something about it.
Bullying is *not* cool.
That guy wasn’t born he fell out of his mother’s other hole.
“Hey, what are you doing?” - then let the guy go when they didn’t get a reply. At least that’s my guess.
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