Teacher says Ramos ‘was the student who scared her the most,’ and dressed ‘like a school shooter’

A instructor at Uvalde elementary school stated gunman Salvador Ramos ‘scared her’ and started ‘dressing like school shooter’ in the months main as much as the bloodbath.

During a information/texas/index.html” id=”mol-86350e60-f1c8-11ec-8f05-5365e20bfa55″>Texas State information/us-senate/index.html” id=”mol-8630efb0-f1c8-11ec-8f05-5365e20bfa55″>Senate listening to investigating the response to the taking pictures, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Col. Steve McCraw, stated that after the taking pictures at the very least six people informed him Ramos had nervous them.

McCraw stated that these worries had solely been voiced to him after the taking pictures, and that no stories about Ramos had been made prior. 

He additionally identified that Ramos’ disturbing conduct was well-known in the small city of 17,000, referencing footage of the shooter holding a bag of lifeless cats that was posted on-line.

McCraw additionally speculated that the draw of on the spot notoriety enabled by the web and social media could have performed a think about Ramos’ determination to hold out the taking pictures.

Meanwhile, Uvalde mayor Don McLaughlin introduced on Wednesday evening that the Robb Elementary School the place the taking pictures happened can be demolished. 

McCraw stated that he had interviewed between 500 and 700 individuals as a a part of the ongoing investigation into the May 24 taking pictures that left 19 youngsters and two lecturers lifeless.

McCraw informed the Texas Senate listening to that a instructor informed him that Ramos, 18, ‘was the student who scared her the most,’ and that he had began ‘dressing like a mass shooter’ earlier than the assault.

‘Out of all these interviews, what number of instances did they let you know he was the one they have been nervous about?’ Texas senator Paul Bettencourt requested McCraw. 

‘Several instances. We had one instructor who stated she was at all times nervous about him,’ McCraw answered, ‘He was the one student who scared her most. We mentioned, as I discussed earlier, final 12 months he began dressing like a school shooter, began appearing like a school shooter.’

Bettencourt characterised incident of Ramos holding a bag of lifeless cats as ‘animal abuse’ and ‘abhorrent conduct.’ That no person had reported Ramos conduct or their fears about him, Bettencourt stated ‘That’s a main failure.’

Senator Charles Perry pressed McCraw about his thought’s on Ramos’ need for notoriety, and whether or not entry to audiences by means of social media could have spurned him to motion.   

‘You talked about a couple of instances notoriety — let me ask it this fashion concerning social media. It performs into human nature, males particularly, about wanting to depart their mark, desirous to be vital, wanting that function, desirous to be one thing. And that may be good or unhealthy,’ Perry stated.

‘Do you assume the social media facet of the platform – and it is simply been related up in the final 30 years, proper? I’m 60 – we had these people who weren’t handled proper or felt like they have been mistreated or had points, however they did not have a platform.’ 

 ‘Do you assume that the concept that this man knew the minute he pulled the set off that he simply received notoriety on a worldwide foundation that can dwell sadly into perpetuity?’

‘Absolutely,’ McCraw stated.

‘You assume that performs into the psyche?’ requested Perry. 

‘Some of the statements he made would counsel precisely that,’ McCraw stated. 

McCraw additionally slammed police’s response to the bloodbath as ‘an abject failure,’ and stated that there had been sufficient cops at the scene to cease the gunman simply three minutes into the taking pictures. 

‘Three minutes after the topic entered the west hallway, there was ample variety of armed officers carrying physique armor, to isolate distract and neutralize the topic,’ McCraw informed the committee whereas reviewing the timeline of the day’s tragic occasions. 

The assertion noticed McCraw develop into the newest to put blame on the botched response on district police chief Pete Arredondo, who reportedly commanded cops on the scene to remain put and not confront gunman Salvadaor Ramos after the teen barricaded himself inside a stuffed fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary.

 In a scathing speech, McCraw stated the district chief ‘determined to position the lives of officers earlier than the lives of youngsters.’

‘The solely factor stopping a hallway of devoted officers from coming into room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who determined to position the lives of officers earlier than the lives of youngsters,’ McCraw stated. ‘The officers had weapons – the youngsters had none. The officers had physique armor – the youngsters had none.’

‘The legislation enforcement response to the assault at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to all the pieces we have discovered over the final twenty years since the Columbine Massacre,’ McCraw declared.

In one other bombshell revelation, McCraw revealed that the door to the classroom that Ramos had been hiding behind had not been locked – contradicting earlier assertions from Arredondo’s division that the chief had been frantically making an attempt to trace down keys for greater than an hour, to open the fourth-grade classroom’s door.