Salvador Ramos, who allegedly shot and killed 19 college students and two academics at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary faculty on Tuesday, requested his second cousin for particulars in regards to the faculty one week earlier.
Ramos opened hearth at Robb Elementary College in one of many deadliest faculty shootings in recent times. Within the aftermath, many individuals have raised questions on what might have been achieved to forestall the capturing—with individuals trying again at what might have been crimson flags, assessing the response from legislation enforcement or contemplating adjustments to gun coverage.
Ramos' cousin, Shelby Celeste Salazar, advised the Day by day Mail in an interview on Friday that simply days earlier than the capturing, Ramos reached out to her son, a third-grader on the faculty, to ask what time college students have been dismissed for lunch.
However on the time, she didn't assume an excessive amount of of the query, she mentioned.
"I assumed nothing of it after they have been speaking about faculty and his grade and lunch. I imply you do not simply assume somebody will do one thing like this, you understand?" she mentioned.
One week later, Salazar's son was at school when Ramos started opening hearth, however didn't undergo any accidents, she mentioned.
"I do not know why he would have focused an elementary faculty. I imply, he did not know how you can drive, so I actually have no idea. I am at a complete loss for phrases," she mentioned. "He knew my child went to high school there. I can not grasp this...I simply noticed the information with textual content messages and began freaking out."
Salazar and her kids have been residing with Ramos and his grandmother, Celia Gonzales, who Ramos allegedly shot earlier than heading to the college, she advised the Day by day Mail. She mentioned he had beforehand been kicked out of his mom's home.
Gonzales has been recovering from the capturing in a neighborhood hospital since Tuesday. Ramos was shot and killed by police, who managed to breach the classroom.
Following the capturing, a few of Ramos' kinfolk have spoken out. His mom, Adriana Reyes mentioned she was "stunned" by the capturing and that the 2 had a very good relationship, regardless of him residing together with his grandmother.
"My son wasn't a violent particular person. I am stunned by what he did," she advised the Day by day Mail. "I pray for these households. I am praying for all of these harmless kids, sure I'm. They [the children] had no half on this."
Consideration has additionally turned to the response of native legislation enforcement, who authorities mentioned didn't have interaction with Ramos out of issues they'd be shot, prompting widespread criticism that they didn't do sufficient to forestall him from capturing his victims.
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