Salvador Ramos nicknamed ‘School Shooter’ year before Uvalde mass shooting – Report

 

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Salvador Ramos, who fatally shot 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde elementary school in May, was given the nickname "school shooter" a year before the shooting, according to a new report released Sunday, Newsweek reports.

On May 24, Ramos entered the Texas school with a semi-automatic rifle and shot dead 19 school pupils in cold blood. He was later shot dead by police officers deployed to the scene after a bloody hour long confrontation.

Egregious poor decision by law enforcement in Uvalde 

Newsweek reported that the Texas House committee investigating the shooting released the report detailing the "specific failures and egregious poor decision making" of local and state authorities, as well as those close to Ramos, who may have been able to prevent the deadly incident.

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The report findings included that Ramos allegedly displayed warning signs that he might have been plotting an attack, Newsweek cited a report by The Texas Tribune, which first reported the committee’s findings.

Ramos was given the “school shooter” nickname on social media where he reportedly made violent threats against others, according to the report, Newsweek cited the Tribune report. He turned to the internet and became interested in gore and violent sex, and sometimes posted photographs and videos of suicides and beheadings.

Investigators found Ramos behavior was extended offline citing how Ramos was fired from Whataburger after harassing a female employee and began purchasing guns in the months before the deadly shooting. Ramos who turned 18 on May 16, purchased two AR-15-style rifles which were sent to a local gun shop, the Tribune reported. Newsweek reported that the mass shooter spent over $6,000 on firearms and accessories.

 Newsweek quoted the owner of the shop, Oasis Outback as telling investigators that he didn’t notice any red flags. Other customers described him as “nervous looking" and that he looked "like one of those school shooters,” according to Newsweek.

The report found that nobody made any effort to alert authorities about Ramos despite his troubling behavior, the Tribune reported.

Nearly 400 local, state and federal law enforcement officials arrived at the crime but could not engage the lone gunman for more than an hour giving him ample opportunity to fatally shoot the young students and two of their teachers.