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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He had worked at Wendy’s for a year or so. Fast food joints have increased pay in the wake of Covid. You can make around $20,000 a year or more. He had no expenses and he made more than enough to buy all of this. The truck was his grandma’s that he stole.
“Or, for his wheels that he crashed?”
At Gov Abbot press conference they stated truck belonged to his grandmother.
“Again, I side with the Victims, not the aggressor.”
No, you are just using the fact that some kid is weird or creepy as an excuse to bully and torture the kid. You’re no better than the shooter if you’re going to drive someone to that level.
Again, just leave the kid alone if you don’t like him. Otherwise don’t whine when the kid finally breaks and strikes back.
You reap what you sow.
Perhaps they could free up some time and resources and personnel if they cut out the gender studies an climate change part of the curriculum.
Thanks. That figures!
Didn’t even pay for his own car, with *all that money* he was making.
🙄
His 72-year-old grandfather also said that he didn’t have a driver’s license and did not know how to drive. He stole the truck after he shot the grandma.
He had been sleeping on the floor on a mattress at the grandmother’s home.
Obviously a white supremacist influenced by Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. Take away their guns and everything will be all better./s
“More than one-third of residents in the city live at or barely above the federal poverty line.”
See? It’s all capitalism’s fault.
“It is the second deadliest shooting in US history after the infamous Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 - which saw 26 people killed “
Las Vegas, the body count was 61 dead.
In Oklahoma City in 1995, 168 were killed with a homemade truck bomb.
Las Vegas, 61
Oklahoma City, 168. Truck bombs beat guns, even guns with bump stocks. Both of them beat Sandy Hook by a mile.
Blimy. Get your facts straight, limies.
I wondered that too. Was he taking SSRI’s?
Ditto !
That DM hightlights that 'factoid' is about as red herring as it gets.
It seems to have been intentional that he targeted the grade school.
18 is no kid
An 18yo still living at home and working even at Wendy’s could pile up some cash.
Tell me how they bullied him. It’s pretty much nonsense.
mean tweets
It seemed he did like to wear eyeliner but the photo of him dressed in a skirt isn't him at all. It's an entirely different person who sort of resembled him enough that 4chan circulated the photo, claimed it was the shooter, and it went viral on social media.
I posted it here a couple of times last night.
They have access to our cell data and computers via the 5 eyes agreement. They can use it cause they are in the Uk. US media can’t use it on its own citizens. Just a guess.
No, not that!
There’s also the market for the area to consider, as well as new vs. used/pawned.
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