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Texas gunman, 18-year-old loner Salvador Ramos killed after he shot dead 19 elementary school students, two teachers, injuring his grandmother and dozens of student, then barricading himself inside building during shoot-out with border patrol

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Gunman&comma; launched murderous attacked a on fourth grade class at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday morning&comma; then barricaded himself inside building during shoot-out with border patrol <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>At least nineteen primary school children shot dead by &&num;8216&semi;bullied&&num;8217&semi; high school student&comma; 18&comma; who posted photos of rifles on Instagram and went on the rampage &&num;8216&semi;after an argument with his grandmother about failing to graduate&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Salvador Ramos himself was shot dead after killing nineteen pupils aged seven to 11&comma; during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&comma; Texas <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong><strong>Ramos&comma; 18&comma; who also left over a dozen other students injured&comma; shot his 66-year-old grandmother before going to the elementary school<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Fourth grader Amerie Jo Garza&comma; 10&comma; <strong>was killed as she tried to phone 911 while sitting next to her best friend&comma; who ended up covered in her bloo<&sol;strong><&sol;strong>d <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Third grader Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez&comma; 10&comma; was killed along with fourth graders Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares Xavier James Lopez&comma; 10&comma; Uziyah Garcia&comma; 9&comma; Makenna Elrod&comma; 10&comma; Eliahana Torres&comma; 10&comma; Rogelio Torres&comma; Nevaeh Bravo&comma; Ellie Lugo&comma; and Eliahna &&num;8216&semi;Ellie&&num;8217&semi; Garcia&comma; 10 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Other students killed include Jacinto Cazares&comma; 10&comma; Jayce Carmelo Luevanos&comma; 10&comma; Jose Flores Jr&period;&comma; 10&comma; and Jailah Nicole Siglero&comma; 11<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Two fourth grade teachers Eva Mireles&comma; 44&comma; and Irma Garcia were killed in attack that began around 11&period;30am Tuesday <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;332828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Fast food worker Ramos&comma; described as a self-harming loner who was bullied because of his clothes&comma; managed to save nearly &dollar;5&comma;000 to buy two AR-15 rifles and three hundred rounds of ammunition after turning 18 last week&period;   <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Salvador-Ramos-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408250" width&equals;"668" height&equals;"715"&sol;><figcaption><strong><strong>Gunman Salvador Ramos&comma; 18&comma; shot his grandmother before going to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&semi; engaging border patrol agents nearby in a shootout&semi; and then barricading himself inside the school&comma; killing 19 students and two teachers<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Nineteen children and a teacher have been killed at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday&comma; by a deranged gunman who was then shot dead by cops&period;  <br>The pupils aged between seven and 11 years old were shot dead along with two of their teachers by the 18-year-old shooter who has also been killed in the deadliest school mass shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School almost a decade ago&period; <br>The shooter has been identified as local resident Salvador Ramos&comma; an 18-year-old fast food worker&period; Ramos is described as a lonely child who was bullied for his lisp and for wearing eyeliner&comma; carried out the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&comma; Texas&comma; around 11&period;30am Tuesday&period; <br>He had reportedly&comma; embarked on his rampage after shooting his grandmother at a house elsewhere in the city&comma; after an argument about his failing to graduate high school&period; <br>Police and officials said Ramos&comma; who had purchased a pair of rifles for his 18th birthday and showed them off on social media&comma; fled the scene of the first shooting in a car armed with a handgun&comma; &&num;8216&semi;possibly&&num;8217&semi; a rifle&comma; and wearing body armor&period; <br>He ditched the vehicle close to the school&comma; went inside and &&num;8216&semi;started shooting children&comma; teachers&comma; whoever was in his way&comma;&&num;8217&semi; police said&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Children-killed-in-Texas-elementary-school-mass-shooting-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408248" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"559"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&comma; Texas&comma; on Monday&period; 19 students and two teachers died in the mass shooting perpetrated by an 18-year-old high school failure<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The shooter engaged in a firefight with border patrol before the shooting and then ran into the school and barricaded himself inside the school&period; <br>Initially reported to be in custody&comma; police later confirming Ramos had died&period;<br>Photos outside the scene show a pickup truck that crashed outside the school&comma; which was reportedly abandoned before the gunman entering the school&period; While several images emerged of concerned parents converging at the scene&comma; desperately searching for their children and video from the chaotic scene showed police arriving to the school campus with their guns in hand&period;<br>One widely shared video appears to show the suspected gunman approach the school while what sounds like gunfire is going off in the background&period; <br>All of the kids killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde yesterday were in the same fourth grade classroom when gunman Salvador Ramos opened fire with an AR-15 he legally bought on his 18th birthday&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Salvador-Ramos-approaches-school-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408263"&sol;><figcaption><strong>One video recorded on the school campus&comma; appears to show the suspected gunman approach the school while what sounds like gunfire is going off in the background<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">By the time he was stopped Ramos had killed 19 kids aged under 11 and their teachers before being shot himself by police&period; <br>The teenager has been described as a self-harming loner who was bullied because of his clothes&comma; but who managed to save nearly &dollar;5&comma;000 to buy two AR-15 guns and three hundred rounds of ammunition after turning 18 last week&period; <br>It has also been revealed that the gunman was known to police because of his violent arguments with his drug-addict mother&period; However&comma; he no longer lived with her&period; He had gone to live with his grandmother who is now in the hospital fighting for her life&period; <br>On Tuesday&comma; Ramos shot her before going to the school after an argument in their home&comma; reportedly about his academic failures&period; <br>The grandmother&comma; believed to be in her mid 60s&comma; survived but is in the hospital today&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Amerie-Jo-Garza-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408356"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Amerie Jo Garza&comma; 10&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; <strong>was killed as she tried to phone 911 while sitting next to her best friend&comma; who ended up covered in her blood&comma; according to her grandmother<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Robb-Elementary-School-Uvalde-Texas-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408306"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Law enforcement are seen near the crime scene on Tuesday afternoon after the mass murder at the school &&num;8211&semi; The Uvalde elementary school&comma; which has 600 students enrolled&comma; is located 60 miles east of the Mexican border and 80 miles west of San Antonio<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Among those shot dead by the callous killer yesterday was 10-year-old girl who was phoning 911 when he opened fire&period;<br>Amerie Jo Garza&comma; a fourth grader at Robb Elementary in the city Uvalde&comma; Texas&comma; was killed in cold blood Tuesday morning by 18-year-old &&num;8216&semi;loner&&num;8217&semi; Salvador Ramos&comma; who strode into the school carrying a handgun and a rifle before opening fire on classrooms full of children in an attack that also killed two teachers&period; <br>Berlinda Irene Arreola&comma; Amerie&&num;8217&semi;s grandmother&comma; said <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thedailybeast&period;com&sol;robb-elementary-school-fourth-grader-amerie-jo-garza-was-shot-as-she-called-911-grandmother-says&quest;ref&equals;scroll" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><&sol;a>that Ramos told the class &&num;8216&semi;you&&num;8217&semi;re going to die&&num;8217&semi; before he began his massacre &&num;8211&semi; shooting her granddaughter dead as she tried to call 911&period; <br>10-year-old Amerie was sat next to her best friend who was left &&num;8216&semi;covered in her blood&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Berlinda told the <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thedailybeast&period;com&sol;robb-elementary-school-fourth-grader-amerie-jo-garza-was-shot-as-she-called-911-grandmother-says&quest;ref&equals;scroll" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Daily Beast<&sol;a>&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;So the gunman went in and he told the children&comma; &&num;8220&semi;You’re going to die&period;&&num;8221&semi; And &lbrack;Amerie&rsqb; had her phone and she called 911&period; And instead of grabbing it and breaking it or taking it from her&comma; he shot her&period; <br>She was sitting right next to her best friend&period; Her best friend was covered in her blood&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Berlinda said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Irma-Garcia-left-and-Eva-Mireles-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408278"&sol;><figcaption>Mother-of-four <strong>Irma Garcia &lpar;left&rpar; and Eva Mireles &lpar;right&rpar;&comma; 44&comma; who co-taught fourth grade&comma; were both shot and killed by gunman <strong><strong>Salvador Ramos<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Amerie-Jo-Garza-left-Annabelle-Guadalupe-Rodriguez-and-Ellie-Lugo-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408286"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Amerie Jo Garza&comma; 10&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez&comma; 10&comma; and Ellie Lugo &lbrack;right&rsqb; all aged 10 were amo<strong>ng 19 children shot dead at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Eliahana-Torres-left-Uziyah-Garcia-and-Makenna-Elrod-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408294"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Eliahana Cruz Torres&comma; 10&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; Uziyah Garcia&comma; 9&comma; and Makenna Elrod&comma; 10&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb; were among the 4th graders killed on Tuesday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Rogelio-Torres-left-Nevaeh-Bravo-and-Xavier-Lopez-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408300"&sol;><figcaption><strong>More of the 4th graders killed were Rogelio Torres&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; Nevaeh Bravo&comma; and Xavier Lopez &lbrack;right&rsqb;&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Jacinto-Cazares-left-Jayce-Carmelo-Luevanos-and-Jailah-Nicole-Silguero-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408364"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; 10&comma; Jayce Carmelo Luevanos&comma; 10 and Jailah Nicole Siglero&comma; 11&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb; were all shot dead by the gunman on Tuesday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Also killed in the attack were cousins Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez&comma; 10&comma; and Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares Xavier James Lopez&comma; 10&comma; Uziyah Garcia&comma; 9&comma; Makenna Elrod&comma; 10&comma; Eliahana Torres&comma; 10&comma; Rogelio Torres&comma; Nevaeh Bravo&comma; and Ellie Lugo&comma; and Eliahna &&num;8216&semi;Ellie&&num;8217&semi; Garcia&comma; 10&period; <br>Other students killed include Jacinto Cazares&comma; 10&comma; Jayce Carmelo Luevanos&comma; 10&comma; Jose Flores Jr&period;&comma; 10&comma; and Jailah Nicole Siglero&comma; 11&period;<br>Fourth grade teachers Eva Mireles&comma; 44&comma; and Irma Garcia&comma; a mother-of-four&comma; were shot and killed as well&period; <br><strong>Roll Call of victims include&colon;<&sol;strong><br>Amerie Jo Garza&comma; 10&comma; Fourth grader <br>Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez&comma; 10&comma; Third grader <br>Xavier James Lopez&comma; 10&comma; Fourth grader <br>Uziyah Garcia&comma; 9&comma; Fourth grader <br>Makenna Elrod&comma; 10&comma; Fourth grader <br>Eliahana Cruz Torres&comma; 10&comma; Fourth grader <br>Rogelio Torres&comma; Fourth grader <br>Nevaeh Bravo&comma; Fourth grader <br>Ellie Lugo&comma; Fourth grader <br>Jayce Carmelo Luevanos&comma; 10&comma; Fourth grader <br>Jose Flores Jr&period;&comma; 10&comma; Fourth grader <br>Jailah Nicole Siglero&comma; 11&comma; Fourth grader <br>Eliahna &&num;8216&semi;Ellie&&num;8217&semi; Garcia&comma; 10&comma; Fourth grader <br>Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares&comma; 10&comma; Fourth grader <br>Alithia Ramirez&comma; Fourth grader <br>Eva Mireles&comma; 44&comma; Fourth grade teacher<br>Irma Garcia&comma; Fourth grade teacher<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<iframe title&equals;"VideoPress Video Player" aria-label&equals;'VideoPress Video Player' width&equals;'620' height&equals;'347' src&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;videopress&period;com&sol;embed&sol;L6DpzQ3F&quest;cover&equals;1&amp&semi;preloadContent&equals;metadata&amp&semi;useAverageColor&equals;1&amp&semi;hd&equals;0' frameborder&equals;'0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent&equals;"true" allow&equals;'clipboard-write'><&sol;iframe><script src&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;v0&period;wordpress&period;com&sol;js&sol;next&sol;videopress-iframe&period;js&quest;m&equals;1674852142'><&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div><figcaption><strong>Video shows shooting suspect approaching Robb Elementary School<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Ramos was eventually stopped by a Border Patrol agent who had been manning a nearby post and rushed into the school&period; The two exchanged gunfire&comma; with Ramos shot and killed&period; The agent was wounded&comma; a local official said&comma; but was able to walk himself out of the school&period; <br>More than a dozen children were also hurt in the attack&comma; including a ten-year-old girl taken to hospital in the nearby city of San Antonio in critical condition&period;<br>A 66-year-old woman &&num;8211&semi; believed to be Ramos&&num;8217&semi;s grandmother who he shot at the start of his killing spree &&num;8211&semi; was in the same hospital&comma; also in critical&period;<br>A second hospital within Uvalde itself said 13 children had been brought to them&comma; without saying what condition they are in&period; <br>Police warned that the death toll is expected to rise&period;<br>Just hours before the killings took place&comma; Ramos had messaged an acquaintance on Instagram telling her he had a &&num;8216&semi;lil secret&&num;8217&semi; he wanted to share&comma; after earlier tagging her in a photo of two guns he bought himself on his 18th birthday&period; <br>His TikTok account also featured a short user bio that read&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Kids Be Scared&period;&&num;8217&semi; <strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Salvador-Ramos-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408260" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"1065"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Salvador Ramos&comma; 18&comma; from Uvalde&comma; has been identified as the shooter&period; He was described as a bullied loner who slowly dropped out of school due to teasing about his lisp&comma; habit of wearing eyeliner&comma; clothes and his family&&num;8217&semi;s poverty&period; He shot his grandma before going to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&semi; engaging border patrol agents nearby in a shootout&semi; and then barricading himself inside the school&comma; killing 19 students and two teachers&period; Dozens of students also injured&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;image-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408336"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Ramos shared photos on social media of guns&period; His account was taken down shortly after Governor Greg Abbott confirmed his name<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Tweet-by-Salvador-Ramos-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408343"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Ramos messaged a woman he knew on Instagram&comma; tagging her in a photo of the guns<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Tweet-by-Salvador-Ramos-6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408349"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Ramos messaged a woman he knew on Instagram&comma; tagging her in a photo of the guns<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">One of the rifles that Ramos legally purchased was found alongside his body in the school&comma; police sources told <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;click2houston&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;24&sol;suspect-info-heres-what-we-know-about-the-18-year-old-shooter-who-officials-say-killed-his-grandmother-14-students-and-1-teacher&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Click2Houston<&sol;a>&comma; while another was found in a truck which he crashed close by&period;  <br>A backpack filled with loaded magazines was found abandoned on the way into the school&comma; while seven 30-round magazines were found inside the grounds&period; It was not immediately clear whether they were full or empty&period; <br>Ramos was found wearing a body armor vest&comma; police added&comma; though it had no armor plating inside&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Relatives-embrace-as-they-wait-for-news-at-the-SSGT-Willie-de-Leon-Civic-Center-in-Uvalde-Texas-after-a-mass-shooting-on-Tuesday-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408310"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Relatives tearful group embrace as they wait for news of their children at the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center in Uvalde&comma; Texas&comma; after the mass shooting at the local elementary school<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Relatives-and-loved-ones-of-those-caught-up-in-the-mass-shooting-in-Uvalde-Texas-pray-during-a-vigil-for-the-victims-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408308"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Relatives and loved ones of those caught up in the mass shooting in&nbsp&semi;Uvalde&comma; Texas&comma; on Tuesday join hands as they tearfully pray during a vigil for the victims<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Joe Biden&comma; speaking at the White House where he had ordered flags to fly at half-staff in honor of the victims&comma; kicked off the inevitable debate about gun control&period; Declaring himself &&num;8216&semi;sick and tired&&num;8217&semi; of the cyclical discussion&comma; he called for voters to &&num;8216&semi;turn this pain into action&&num;8217&semi; to prevent more mass killings&period; &&num;8216&semi;We have to act&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;As a nation&comma; we have to ask&comma; when in God&&num;8217&semi;s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby&quest; When in God&&num;8217&semi;s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period; <br>Ted Cruz&comma; Republican senator for Texas&comma; led the response &&num;8211&semi; repeating well-worn arguments that &&num;8216&semi;restricting the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens&&num;8217&semi; to prevent mass shootings &&num;8216&semi;doesn&&num;8217&semi;t work&&num;8217&semi;&period; The solution&comma; he said&comma; is to put armed officers on school campuses&period; Cruz is due to speak an at NRA conference on Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Salvador-Ramos-home-in-Uvalde-Texas1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408304"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Ramos&&num;8217&semi;s home in Uvalde&comma; Texas is sealed with police tape <strong>&nbsp&semi;on Tuesday as police try to fathom a motive for the shooting&period; He reportedly&comma; shot his grandmother before going to Robb Elementary School <&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Children confirmed dead by family members included 10-year-olds Xavier Lopez&comma; Eliahana Torres&comma; and Makenna Elrod&comma; and eight-year-old Uziyah Garcia&period; <br>Another girl called Ellie Garcia was also confirmed to have died by her grieving parents&period; <br>Angel Garza&comma; the father of Amerie who had been appealing on Facebook for news of his then-missing daughter&comma; told ABC News late Tuesday&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Thank you everyone for the prayers and help trying to find my baby&comma; <br>&&num;8216&semi;She’s been found&period; My little love is now flying high with the angels above&period; Please don’t take a second for granted&period; Hug your family&period; Tell them you love them&period; I love you Amerie Jo&period; Watch over your baby brother for me&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Amelia Sandoval&comma; the grandmother of victim Xavier Lopez&comma; told ABC&colon; &&num;8216&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s just so hard&&num;8230&semi; you send your kids to school thinking they are going to make it back home but they&&num;8217&semi;re not&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>With the shooter neutralized&comma; Pete Arredondo&comma; chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department&comma; reassured the public stated &&num;8216&semi;Let me assure you&comma; the intruder is deceased&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>&&num;8216&semi;We are not looking for another individual in relation to this case&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Arredondo said<br>A picture of the gunman has also started to emerge as a bullied loner&comma; picked on at school because of a lisp&comma; a habit of wearing eyeliner&comma; his clothes and because he came from a poor family&period; <br>Those who knew Ramos or his relatives say he was a &&num;8216&semi;nice&&num;8217&semi; but &&num;8216&semi;quiet&&num;8217&semi; boy who grew increasingly violent as he became older&comma; amid relentless bullying both in school and online&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Police-secure-Robb-Elementary-School-Uvalde-Texas-after-shooting-on-Tuesday-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408312" width&equals;"833" height&equals;"1338"&sol;><figcaption><strong>This still from a video from the chaotic scene shows police arriving to the scene with their guns in hand<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Santos Valdez told the<a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;nation&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;25&sol;uvalde-texas-school-shooting-gunman&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">&nbsp&semi;Washington Post<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;that he used to be friends with Ramos and played online shooter games such as Fortnite and Call of Duty with him&comma; until the pair stopped talking as Ramos&&num;8217&semi;s behavior &&num;8216&semi;deteriorated&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Valdez said Ramos had showed up to the park one time with cuts all over his face&comma; initially claiming he was scratched by a cat before admitting that he did it to himself with a knife&period; <br>Stephen Garcia&comma; who considered himself Ramos’s best friend in eighth grade&comma; said he was &&num;8216&semi;bullied by a lot of people&&num;8217&semi; including for over a photo of himself wearing eyeliner which led to &&num;8216&semi;gay&&num;8217&semi; taunts&period; Garcia said Ramos dropped out of school when he moved away to another part of the state&comma; and the two had lost touch&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Others confirmed that Ramos had stopped attending classes&comma; and did not intend to take part in graduation this summer&period; Instead&comma; he got a job at a local Wendy&&num;8217&semi;s restaurant&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Truck-driven-by-Salvadore-Ramos-found-abandoned-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408321"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Police found the truck the shooter was believed to have been driving parked near Robb Elementary School<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A colleague there described Ramos has having an aggressive streak&period; She told the<a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thedailybeast&period;com&sol;robb-elementary-school-gunman-salvador-ramos-bought-two-rifles-on-his-18th-birthday-texas-officials-say&quest;ref&equals;home" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">&nbsp&semi;Daily Beast<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;he walked around with a pair of boxing gloves at the park&comma; asking people to fight him and filming it&period; He also menaced co-workers&comma; asking one of the cooks&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Do you know who I am&quest;&&num;8217&semi; <br>&&num;8216&semi;He would be very rude towards the girls sometimes&&num;8230&semi; and he would also send inappropriate texts to the ladies&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the former colleague said&comma; asking for her name not to be used&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>As an 18th birthday present to himself earlier this month&comma; Ramos bought two AR-style rifles and paraded them on social media&comma; including in ominous messages sent hours before the killing started&period; <br>A teenage acquaintance of Ramos&comma; who lives in Los Angeles and claims to barely know him&comma; posted screenshots of messages he sent her early Tuesday after tagging her in a picture of his rifles&period; In them&comma; he said he wanted to share a &&num;8216&semi;lil secret&&num;8217&semi; and urged her to respond to him&period; The conversation ended before Ramos revealed his secret&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Police-secure-Robb-Elementary-School-Uvalde-Texas-after-shooting-on-Tuesday-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408314" width&equals;"834" height&equals;"1476"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Footage shot outside the school shows law enforcement approaching the elementary school with weapons&nbsp&semi;&&num;8211&semi; New video from the chaotic scene shows police arriving to the scene with their guns in hand<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Uvalde elementary school&comma; which has 600 students enrolled&comma; is located 60 miles east of the Mexican border and 80 miles west of San Antonio&period; <br>The district said that the city’s civic center will be used as a reunification center and that parents will be able to pick up their children there once everyone is accounted for&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Chaotic-scene-after-shooting-at-Robb-Elementary-School-in-Uvalde-Texas-on-May-24-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408328"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Law enforcement crowds the entrance of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&comma; where a gunman allegedly injured multiple students<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br>Ruben Flores&comma; who knew Ramos&&num;8217&semi;s family&comma; said he had an unstable home life and got into blow-up fights with his mother&comma; who he grew up with alongside two sisters in a house around a five minute drive from Robb Elementary&period; <br>Police had been called to the home on more than one occasion&comma; Flores added&period; <br>She said Ramos had moved in with his grandmother &&num;8216&semi;a few months ago&&num;8217&semi;&period; Flores said the grandmother was in the process of evicting Ramos&&num;8217&semi;s mother from her house&comma; which the elderly lady owned&period; <br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Chaotic-scene-after-shooting-at-Robb-Elementary-School-in-Uvalde-Texas-on-May-24&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408323" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"542"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Chaotic scene after shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&comma; Texas on May 22<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Among the fatalities were two teachers &&num;8211&semi; Eva Mireles&comma; a fourth grade teacher&comma; was identified by her family as being one of the staff members shot dead&period; She had worked in education for 17 years&period; <br>Her husband Ruben Ruiz&comma; a veteran detective and SWAT team member currently serving as a police officer with the school district&comma; held regular active shooter drills for the schools &&num;8211&semi; most recently at the end of March&period;<br>Irma Garcia&comma; who co-taught with Mireles for the last five year&comma; had been at Robb Elementary for 23 years&period; <br>Married to Joe for 24 years&comma; she was a mother of four &&num;8211&semi; Cristian&comma; completing Marine boot camp&semi; Jose&comma; attending Texas State university University&semi; Lyliana&comma; a sophomore in high school&semi; and Alysandra&comma; a 7th grader&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;My tia did not make it&comma; she sacrificed herself protecting the kids in her classroom&comma; i beg of you to keep my family including all of her family in y’all’s prayers &comma; IRMA GARCIA IS HER NAME and she died a HERO&comma;&&num;8217&semi; tweeted her nephew John&period;  <br>&&num;8216&semi;She was loved by many and will truly be missed&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>She was nominated as teacher of the year for the 2018-19 awards&comma; organized by Trinity University&period;  <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Robb-Elementary-School-mass-shooting-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408370"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Law enforcement secure the scene and help students onto a school bus after mass shooting by a lone gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde&comma; Texas&comma; on May 24&comma; which left 19 students and two teachers dead<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Ramos&&num;8217&semi;s social media was full of photos of guns&comma; which he bought legally on his 18th birthday&comma; state senator Roland Gutierrez said&period;  <br>Gutierrez said that Ramos was born in North Dakota but lived in Uvalde&period; <br>Ramos messaged a woman he knew on Instagram&comma; tagging her in a photo of the guns&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;You gonna repost my gun pics&comma;&&num;8217&semi; &commat;sal8dor&lowbar; direct messaged the girl on May 12<br>&&num;8216&semi;what your guns gotta do with me&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she replied on Friday&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Just wanted to tag you&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said back&period;<br>Then at 5&colon;43am on Tuesday&comma; &commat;salv8dor&lowbar; messaged her and said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m about to&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>The girl asked &&num;8216&semi;about to what&&num;8217&semi; to which he answered&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ll tell you before 11&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>He said he&&num;8217&semi;d text her in an hour and urged her to respond&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I got a lil secret I wanna tell u&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he messaged with a smiley face emoji covering its mouth&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Be grateful I tagged you&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he wrote&period; <br>She replied&colon; &&num;8216&semi;No it&&num;8217&semi;s just scary&comma;&&num;8217&semi; adding&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I barely know you and you tag me in a picture with some guns&quest;&&num;8217&semi; His last message at 9&colon;16am on Tuesday was &&num;8216&semi;Ima air out&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>The shooting started around 11&colon;32am&period; <br>The woman reacted with horror when she learnt what he had done&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He&&num;8217&semi;s a stranger I know nothing about him he decided to tag me in his gun post&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she wrote&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m so sorry for the victims and their families I really don&&num;8217&semi;t know what to say&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>She then added&colon; &&num;8216&semi;The only reason I responded to him was because I was afraid of him I wish I stayed awake to at least try to convince him to not commit his crime&period; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t know&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>When an Instagram user asked if she was his girlfriend&comma; she replied&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t know him and I don&&num;8217&semi;t even live in Texas&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Mobile-morgues-at-Robb-Elementary-School-in-Uvalde-Texas-on-May-22&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-408326"&sol;><figcaption><strong>A mobile morgue is seen on Tuesday afternoon being brought to the site of the shooting<&sol;strong> <strong>on the school campus<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Robb Elementary School&comma; which has 600 students enrolled&comma; is located in the city of Uvalde&comma; hometown of Matthew McConaughey&comma; 60 miles east of the Mexican border and 80 miles west of San Antonio&period;<br>A school friend of Ramos&&num;8217&semi;s said that he sent him the photos of his guns too&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;He would message me here and there&comma; and four days ago he sent me a picture of the AR he was using … and a backpack full of 5&period;56 rounds&comma; probably like seven mags&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the friend told <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com&sol;us&sol;live-news&sol;texas-elementary-school-shooting-05-24-22&sol;index&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">CNN<&sol;a>&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I was like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;bro&comma; why do you have this&quest;&&num;8217&semi; and he was like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Don&&num;8217&semi;t worry about it&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>&&num;8216&semi;He proceeded to text me&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I look very different now&period; You wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t recognize me&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he added&period; <br>The friend said Ramos was mocked by others for the clothes he wore and his family&&num;8217&semi;s financial situation&comma; and eventually was seen less in class&period; He largely dropped out&comma; and took the job at Wendy&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; where co-workers remember him as quiet&period; &&num;8216&semi;kept to himself mostly&comma;&&num;8217&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;didn&&num;8217&semi;t really socialize with the other employees&comma;&&num;8217&semi; one colleague said&period; &&num;8216&semi;He just worked&comma; got paid&comma; and came in to get his check&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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