Salvador Ramos arrested 4 years ago for planning attack when he turned 18
Salvador Ramos, the teenage gunman who killed 21 people including 19 children on Tuesday at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School, had been arrested four years ago for planning to shoot up a school when he turned 18 years old, Texas Representative Tony Gonzales said., Gonzales claimed the shooter was arrested when he was 14"for saying, you know, when I'm a senior in 2022, I am going to shoot up a school.
"Something fell between the cracks between then and now to allow this to happen. We need to shake out all the facts. We need to figure out what happened. Where the holes and we need to make sure it doesn't happen again," Gonzales said. "But if law enforcement, you know, identified him four years ago as a threat, we need to figure out why he wasn't – you know, how he got removed from that."
Gonzales' claim has not been confirmed by any official source. Authorities have previously said Ramos had no criminal record and no documented history of mental illness.Salvador Ramos, 18, shot and killed 21 people in Uvalde. Rep. Gonzales claimed he had been arrested four years ago for threatening to shoot up a school.
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