Texas school gunman's victims were all in the SAME classroom: Loner killed 19 4th graders and their teachers with guns he was able to buy legally on his 18th birthday despite being known to police for rows with his drug-addict mother
Daily Mail
May 25, 2022
Amerie Jo Garza, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary in the city Uvalde, Texas, was among 19 children under the age of 11 killed in the latest school mass shooting to hit America. Berlinda Irene Arreola, her grandmother, said the 10-year-old was shot dead while trying to call 911.
The killer, 18-year-old 'loner' Salvador Ramos, told the class 'you're going to die' before opening fire, Berlinda said.
Also killed in the attack were two male students - Xavier Lopez, 10, and nine-year-old Uziyah Garcia - and three more girls - Makenna Elrod, 10, Eliahana Torres, also 10, and Ellie, whose age and surname were not immediately available.
Two teachers - Eva Mireles, 44, and Irma Garcia, a mother-of-four - were also killed before a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Ramos.
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In yet another unthinkable tragedy on Tuesday, Salvador Ramos, 18, slaughtered 19 innocent children and two much-loved teachers at Robb Elementary school, in Uvalde, Texas, before being killed in a shoot out with a border patrol officer.
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 a troubled child who became consumed with rage thanks partly to an unstable home, including an alleged drug-using mother, and relentless bullying at school - although neither of those facts provide an excuse for his evil crimes.
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 carried out drivebys using his BB gun to target random people, one local claimed. The would-be mass murderer grew up on Hood Street, in a no-frills working class neighborhood, where homes are dotted along avenues more akin to dirt tracks, and where more than a third live at or barely above the federal poverty line.
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