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.
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Does anyone know if he was on any psychiatric medication?
Theres also a chance he experienced sexual abuse from his drug addict mom’s “boyfriends”. Which would have added to his already traumatized state.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/24/us/shooting-robb-elementary-uvalde
Up until a month before the shooting, Ramos worked at a local Wendy’s, and had been employed there for at least a year.
Glassdoor says that starting salary for a fast food crewmember in Uvalde (specifically Burger King) is about $17-19K per year, and Wendy’s employment site says they offer competitive wages. He also had little to no expenses. Wouldn’t take long to come up with the money needed.
These days, because of permissive school policies, some forms of bullying seen in schools can be borderline or actual sexual assault.
All of what you posted here is absolutely not beyond the realm of possibility. If what that poster wrote is true, then what needs to happen is that whistle-blowers need to come out and expose what’s going on—assuming they have an ounce of humanity left in them.
Ah....I just saw where his job was.
At Wendy’s.
Hardly a job that would earn $1Ks of walking around/fire arm/gaming toys money.
I’d like to know how he paid for this stuff....cash? Credit?
I disagree. See 207.
His Q-anon blog made him almost six bucks a day.
He was patient, and trusted the plan.
What makes me the angriest is how he was able to just walk into that school and do this. Doors not even locked at a SIDE ENTRANCE/EXIT. All side doors need to be fire exits that ONLY open from the inside. Even then an alarm should sound when opened. The main entrance/exit should be locked after school starts and a camera/buzzer system to see who is out there. All windows should be moved up near the ceiling so no one can shoot from the outside in.
Someone trained in firearms should be at that school at all times. If they can’t hire someone, armed parents should start volunteering to patrol the school grounds. If they won’t protect your kids, do it yourself.
I would be raising hell at how easy it was for him to enter. Just my 2 cents.
I will defer to the medical FReepers, but I think you are correct.
Do you have ANY idea how common cutters are?
Not excusing this guy, but self harm so common many public schools don’t report it. There are not enough resources to do anything.
You can disagree all you want - Wendy’s in Dallas starts at $19K (as a cross check), and if you live at home/with a relative and don’t have to pay rent, and you don’t have extravagant purchasing habits, you can get significant money (on the scale of purchasing these firearms) pretty quickly. There are guys on my local Toyota 4Runner truck group that work at Wendys, live at home, and make enough money to trick out their trucks. That’s more expensive than guns, ammo and sights.
Mother’s boyfriend may have not been allowed firearms so he furnished the maniac with the money so the boyfirend would have easy access to weapons in a drug trade senario. The mother’s boyfriend needs investigating.
I’m waiting for more definitive reporting - but an awful lot of smaller towns don’t think they need to implement security measures on anything. We have people *here* on FR that brag that their small towns don’t ever need such measures because they’re not the big cities.
Out of curiosity, how much do you think all the things consuming his money other than the firearms cost?
They don't report a lot of things that they should report, which is why public schools contribute to the problems.
How do you know he wasn’t paying rent?
Or, groceries, for that matter? Or, for his wheels that he crashed?
It’s reported that mom is a drug addict. Maybe he gave her $ for wifi bill and she spent it.
We have no idea what he made (number of hours worked/week) or what he paid for.
No telling how much he spent on his gaming toys, drugs (if he took them), etc.
And, yes, you’re right....I can disagree with you. ;-)
110% agree
My wife is a teacher at a large school.
She is a mandatory reporter, and does her duty. But I know of one student who was a cutter, made my wife think they were going to be suicidal, and whose parents had reached out for help AS HAD THE STUDENT.
They had an appointment six months in the future. Kid tried to kill themself (trying to sanitize it for details), and it was not good.
Why? There are so many people who need help, so few resources, and it burns the practitioners out like candles.
Covid made everything worse.
There are a lot of mentally ill people running around. More than most realize.
It’s convulsive opportunism.
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