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Born in
Fargo, North Dakota,
[126] Salvador Rolando Ramos was a resident of Uvalde from an early age and was a former student at
Uvalde High School.
[127] He also attended Robb Elementary School for fourth grade in the same classroom where he was killed.
[128] He was frequently
bullied at school due to his
stutter, short haircut, and limited wardrobe, because his family was unable to afford more.
[9][10][129] At one point another student tied his shoelaces together, causing him to fall face down.
[9] Lt. Chris Olivarez from
Texas DPS claimed that Ramos had no friends.
[130] Furthermore, he did not have a criminal record or any documented
mental health issues.
[55] However, he had searched the term "sociopath" and received an email about possible treatment.[9] He had also previously posted violent threats online.[131] School officials at Uvalde High School withdrew him from the school on October 28, 2021, due to his frequent absences.[129]
Ramos' social media acquaintances said he openly abused and killed animals such as cats and would livestream the abuse on Yubo.
[132] Other social media acquaintances said that he would also livestream himself on Yubo threatening to kidnap and rape girls who used the app, as well as threatening to commit a school shooting.[131] Ramos' account was reported to Yubo, but no action was taken.
[131][133] Up until a month before the shooting, Ramos worked at a local
Wendy's and had been employed there for at least a year. According to the store's night manager, he went out of his way to keep to himself.
[134] One of his coworkers said he was occasionally rude to his female coworkers, to whom he sent inappropriate text messages, and would intimidate coworkers at his job by asking them,
"Do you know who I am?"[97] Ramos' coworkers referred to him by names including "school shooter" because he had long hair and frequently wore black clothing.[135]
A year before the shooting, Ramos started posting pictures to his
Instagram account of semi-automatic rifles that were on his wish list. According to a friend of his, he would often drive around at night with another friend, shooting at strangers with a
BB gun and
egging cars. According to a man who was in a relationship with Ramos' mother, Ramos moved out of his mother's house and into his grandparents' house two months before the shooting, after an argument broke out between him and his mother over Ramos turning off the
Wi-Fi.
[56] People close to Ramos' family described his mother as a drug user and said he frequently argued with her. Two months prior to the shooting, he posted a video of himself on Instagram aggressively arguing with his mother and referring to her as a "*****".
[5][136] Ramos' mother described her son as "not a monster" but admitted that he could "be aggressive".
[137] His grandfather said that his grandson did not have a driver's license and did not know how to drive.
[48] According to his father, Ramos had a girlfriend, who lived in San Antonio.
[138] On May 14, Ramos sent a private Instagram message reading,
"10 more days". A person responded, "Are you going to shoot up a school or something?" He replied, "No, stop asking dumb questions. You'll see."[131]
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, in September 2021, Ramos asked his older sister to buy him a gun, but she refused.
[60] On May 17, 2022, a day after his 18th birthday, he legally purchased a
Smith & Wesson semi automatic rifle from a local gun store. He then purchased another rifle three days later.
[139] Investigators later found that his gun had a "hellfire" trigger device, which decreases the time required for the trigger to reset, increasing the possible rate of fire.
[140] Ramos sent an Instagram message to an acquaintance he met through Yubo, which showed the receipt for an
AR-15 style rifle purchased from Georgia-based online retailer
Daniel Defense eight days before the shooting.
[1][141][142] He posted a picture of two rifles on his Instagram account three days before the shooting.
[143]
Ahead of the shooting, Ramos had purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition,
[144] which included 375 rounds of
5.56 NATO ammunition purchased on May 18, 2022.
[139] A total of 315 rounds were found inside the school, consisting of 142 spent cartridges and 173 live rounds. Additionally, a total of 922 rounds were found on school property outside the building, consisting of 22 spent cartridges and 900 live rounds. Overall, Ramos fired 164 rounds during the shooting.
[144] Police and Border Patrol officers fired a combined total of 35 rounds during the shooting: eight in the hallway and 27 in the classroom where Ramos was killed.
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