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Robb Elementary School shooting
Part of mass shootings in the United States
Map
Location of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas
LocationRobb Elementary School,
715 Old Carrizo Road
Uvalde, Texas, U.S.
Coordinates29°11′58″N 99°47′18″W / 29.19944°N 99.78833°W / 29.19944; -99.78833
DateMay 24, 2022 (2022-05-24)
c. 11:30 a.m. – c. 1:00 p.m. (UTC−05:00)
Attack type
School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder,[1][2] pedicide
WeaponsAR-15 style rifle, handgun
Deaths22 (including the perpetrator)
Injured18[3] (including the perpetrator's grandmother at home)
PerpetratorSalvador Rolando Ramos
MotiveUnknown

On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, killing nineteen students and two teachers, and wounding seventeen people. Earlier that day, he had shot and wounded his grandmother.[4][5][6] He was shot and killed on the scene by a Border Patrol agent.

This is the third-deadliest American school shooting after the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, and the deadliest in Texas.[7][8]

Background

Uvalde is a Hispanic-majority city of about 16,000 people in the South Texas region; it is located about 60 miles (100 km) from the United States–Mexico border and about 85 miles (135 km) from San Antonio.[5]

About 90% of Robb Elementary School's student body is Hispanic, and about 81% of the student population comes from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.[9] The school serves about 600 second through fourth grade students in Uvalde.[4][10] Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD), the school district governing Robb Elementary School, had multiple security measures in place at the time of the shooting, including four officers working within the school district and a security staff that patrolled door entrances and parking lots at secondary campuses. The school also uses Social Sentinel, a service that monitors Uvalde-affiliated social media accounts to identify threats made against students or staff in UCISD.[11]

Shooting

On May 24, 2022, Ramos and his 66-year-old grandmother had an argument at their home in Uvalde over Ramos not graduating,[12] during which he shot her in the forehead before taking her truck;[13][14] she was airlifted to a hospital in San Antonio in critical condition.[15][16] Using his Facebook account, Ramos sent three private messages to an adolescent in Germany[17] prior to the shooting: once to say that he was going to shoot his grandmother; another time to say that he had shot his grandmother; and, about 15 minutes before the school shooting, to say that he was going to open fire at an elementary school.[18][19][20] A spokesperson for Meta said the posts were "private one-to-one text messages" discovered after the shooting took place.[19]

Ramos then crashed his grandmother's truck through a barricade and into a concrete ditch outside of Robb Elementary School.[21] According to police, Ramos was wearing a plate carrier—a type of tactical vest—without body-armor plates inside,[22][23] a backpack, and all-black clothing while carrying a handgun,[5] an AR-15 style rifle,[21] and high-capacity magazines.[24] A witness said Ramos first fired at two people at a nearby funeral home, both of whom escaped uninjured.[25] He then shot and wounded a UCISD police officer who attempted to stop him from entering the building; afterwards, he dropped a black bag with ammunition inside and ventured further into the school.[26][27]

Soon after, police reported receiving 9-1-1 calls about a vehicle having crashed near the school and a person armed with a rifle who had been seen heading inside. Responding officers reportedly engaged with Ramos and returned fire before he entered the building.[27] As UCISD officers exchanged fire with Ramos, Border Patrol Tactical Unit agents joined them in response to a request for assistance; one sustained an injury.[26] Ramos walked into the school through its south entrance at around 11:30 a.m. CDT.[28][29]

After entering the building, Ramos walked down two short hallways, entered a classroom that was internally connected to another classroom, and barricaded himself inside before opening fire on the children and two teachers in the room.[18] The UCISD police chief estimated that this shooting began at 11:32 and, according to a Facebook post by the school, the school was locked down at 11:43 in response to gunshots heard in the vicinity.[30] According to Christopher Olivarez, a lieutenant of the Texas Department of Public Safety, first responding officers had insufficient manpower and were unable to enter the classroom, and they instead evacuated children and teachers by breaking windows around the school.[18][27]

Ramos stayed in the classroom for around one hour, hiding behind a steel door that officers were unable to open until they obtained a master key from the principal.[12] In the moments after the shooting began, onlookers urged police to enter the school, but they did not.[25] At 1:17 p.m., UCISD sent out a message on Twitter that there was an active shooter at the elementary school.[24] According to Governor Abbott, the injured Border Patrol agent shot and killed Ramos.[31]

Victims

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the shooting.[32] The children were in grades two, three, and four.[33] Two victims died upon arriving at Uvalde Memorial Hospital.[34] Thirteen children were taken to this hospital, per its CEO.[10] Several other victims were taken to the University Hospital in San Antonio. A total of 17 people were reported injured, including two police officers.[3] Governor Greg Abbott said the two officers were struck by bullets but had no serious injuries.[26][35]

Perpetrator

Salvador Ramos
Born
Salvador Rolando Ramos

(2004-05-16)May 16, 2004
North Dakota, U.S.
DiedMay 24, 2022(2022-05-24) (aged 18)
Uvalde, Texas, U.S.
Cause of deathGunshot wounds
OccupationWendy's employee
MotiveUnknown
Details
DateMay 24, 2022
Target(s)Students and staff at Robb Elementary School
Killed21
Injured18

Salvador Rolando Ramos (May 16, 2004 – May 24, 2022) was born in North Dakota,[36] and was a resident of Uvalde and a student at Uvalde High School. Prior to the shooting, he had no criminal record or documented mental health issues.[18] According to classmates and friends of Ramos, he had a stutter and a strong lisp, for which he was often bullied; he frequently had fistfights with classmates, occasionally with boxing gloves, which he carried around with him; and he had few friends. Ramos was expected to graduate from high school in 2022, but his frequent absences made his graduation unlikely. Ramos's condition became worse when his best friend moved to another part of Texas, and he ended up dropping out of school. After that, he grew out his hair and began wearing all-black clothing and military boots.[37][38]

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, Ramos went out of his way to keep to himself.[39] One of Ramos's coworkers said he was occasionally rude to his female coworkers, to whom he sent inappropriate text messages, and would threaten cooks at his job by asking them, "Do you know who I am?"[12]

A year before the shooting, Ramos started posting pictures to his Instagram account of automatic rifles that were on his wish-list. Prior to the shooting, Ramos would drive around at night with a friend and shoot at people with a BB gun and throw eggs at cars. According to a man who was in a relationship with Ramos's 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 her turning off the Wi-Fi. Ramos posted a video of himself on Instagram aggressively arguing with his mother and referring to her as a "bitch". A neighbor described Ramos's mother as a drug user.[37] Ramos's grandfather said that Ramos did not have a driver's license, nor did he know how to drive.[13][19]

Ramos legally purchased a semi-automatic rifle from a local gun store on May 17, a day after his 18th birthday, and purchased another rifle three days later.[22] Ramos also sent an Instagram message to an acquaintance he met through Yubo, which showed a receipt for a AR-15 style rifle, DDM4 V7 purchased from Georgia-based online retailer Daniel Defense eight days before the shooting.[40][41] He then posted a picture of two rifles on his Instagram account three days before the shooting.[42] On May 18, he purchased 375 rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition.[22]

Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are assisting local police in the investigation.[15][43] Ramos's guns and magazines were recovered by law enforcement and are being analyzed.[26]

Aftermath

UCISD asked parents not to pick up their children until all Robb Elementary School students were accounted for. At around 2:00 p.m., parents were notified to pick them up. All district and campus activities were canceled, and the parents of students at other schools were asked to pick up their children due to school bus cancellations.[11]

The UCISD superintendent announced that night in a letter sent to parents that the school year had concluded for the entire district, including the cancellation of a planned graduation ceremony. The school year had previously been scheduled to end that Thursday.[44]

Some parents had to wait late into the night for final confirmation of their child's death, awaiting DNA identification.[27]

The South Texas Blood and Tissue Center issued an urgent request for blood donations after the shooting, and sent 15 units of blood to Uvalde via helicopter to be used in area hospitals.[45] Uvalde Memorial Hospital announced on Facebook that they would be holding an emergency blood drive for the victims.[46]

CBS pulled the fourth-season finale of FBI that was to air that night; the episode involved a fictional school shooting as a plot point.[47]

Responses

Political reactions

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Congressman Tony Gonzales at Robb Elementary School the day after the shooting

Representatives for President Joe Biden, who was returning to the United States from a trip to Asia, announced that he had been briefed on the shooting and would be making public remarks later that evening after arriving back home.[48][49] He ordered flags to be flown at half-staff[49] and spoke to Governor Abbott from Air Force One.[50] During his speech on the shooting, he asked, "When in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?"[51] Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the U.S. to pass stricter gun control measures, and urged Republican members of Congress to resist influence from the National Rifle Association, a gun-rights lobby that Democrats have long blamed for Republican lawmakers' resistance to supporting gun control.[52] On May 25th, the US National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman released a poem inspired by the Robb Elementary School shooting, that began "Schools scared to death. The truth is, one education under desks", the poem reaches the conclusion, "One nation under guns".[53]

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) described the attack as an "unbelievably tragic and horrible crime", and expressed support for red flag laws that help restrict potentially violent individuals from accessing firearms.[2] Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) called the shooting "yet another act of evil and mass murder", offered his prayers to the families and children affected by the shooting, and said that the country has seen "too many of these shootings".[54] Top Texas Republican officials have resisted the possibility of increased gun control measures.

The attack was condemned by former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.[55][56][57]

During a press conference regarding the shooting held by Governor Abbott in Uvalde on May 25, Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic candidate in the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election, confronted Abbott by telling him, "You said this was not predictable – this was totally predictable, and you choose not to do anything." Uvalde Mayor, Republican Don McLaughlin, asked O'Rourke to leave the press conference,[58] saying, "I can't believe you're a sick son of a bitch who would come to a deal like this to make a political issue."[59] O'Rourke was then escorted out of the auditorium.[58]

Gun control and gun rights responses and inactions

Biden did not lay out any plan to take action, which disappointed gun control activists.[60] In a speech given on the night of the shooting, Vice President Kamala Harris reacted by calling for policy changes to prevent similar shootings.[55]

Senator Cruz commented that some politicians would politicize the shooting to push for stricter gun reforms.[61][62] Users on social media accused him of hypocrisy for accepting money from gun activists, and for planning to speak at an upcoming NRA annual meeting with Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Governor Abbott.[54]

Manuel Oliver, a gun control activist and the father of a Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim, issued a statement expressing his outrage, and said that the families of the victims do not need the thoughts and prayers of politicians; instead, "they need their kids."[63] Several families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting spoke out, with several calling for stricter gun control.[64] Activist Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed during the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, also called for politicians to enact stricter gun control, and expressed support for the families of Robb Elementary School victims.[65] Gun manufacturer Daniel Defense was met with social media criticism in the wake of the shooting, including on a post made on May 16 depicting a child holding a Daniel Defense rifle, causing the company to make many of its social media accounts private.[21]

During an NBA playoff basketball press conference hours after the shooting, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr avoided discussion of basketball, and instead used the platform to express outrage at the inaction of politicians on legislation to help prevent gun violence. He spoke with dismay concerning the Robb Elementary shooting and multiple other recent mass shootings, including the Tops grocery shooting in Buffalo, New York, and the Laguna Woods church shooting in California. He asserted that 50 U.S. Senators were refusing to act on HR 8 (the Bipartisan Background Checks Act), which had been passed by the House over a year earlier, and underscored the fact that the vast majority of Americans support more robust background checks in connection with gun purchases.[66][67]

See also

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