Who Is Salvador Ramos? The 18-Year-Old Opened Fire At Texas School Killing 21

An 18-year-old man stormed the Robb elementary school in Texas and opened fire on students and employees, killing 21 people, including 19 children, in an extremely violent and devastating occurrence. In the school massacre, Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old Texas man, murdered 19 elementary school children, making it the third worst school shooting in US history, with a total of 21 deaths and injuring 17 others.

Ramos was later discovered to be a resident of a little town about 135 kilometres west of San Antonio. Ramos revealed his plan to kill children and plan a mass shooting in a series of social media posts before to shooting inside the school. He also claimed on social media that he had shot his grandma and that he was about to shoot up a school.

After law enforcement agencies made the assailant's name public, the account, which contained photographs of semi-automatic rifles, was deleted from the social media platform. According to reports, the shooter, Ramos was killed by security personnel in a gunfight after the Texas school massacre.

Ramos had worked at the fast food joint for a year and departed a month ago, according to a local Wendy's manager who spoke to The New York Times. The management said he "went out of his way to stay by himself" and that he wasn't friendly with the other employees. He went on to say, "No one really knew him." Ramos was frequently quiet and "did not socialise much," according to another anonymous coworker. She also added, "At the park, there would be footage of him trying to fight people with boxing gloves."

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According to numerous media sources, Ramos suffered from a variety of mental illnesses and occasionally had aggressive outbursts, which finally led to his involvement in a mass shooting at a Texas high school. His mother was also quoted confirming that he has had outbursts of anger.

The shooter's father, Salvador Ramos Sr., 42, claimed he 'never imagined' his youngest kid, Salvador, going on a killing spree, described him as a nice person who was "stuck to himself." He also corroborated a claim made by one of Ramos Jr.'s coworkers that he (Ramos) had just purchased a pair of boxing gloves and planned to wear them around a nearby park while filming others fighting him.

He attributed the distance to his own mother's disease, implying that he (Ramos) had been separating himself from her (mother) owing to COVID-19. He claimed that a month ago, Ramos Jr. became irritated with the restrictions and stopped communicating with him.

Reports suggested that Ramos was bullied in school and a former classmate of his told media that he indeed was bullied, but added that he was also an aggressor. "I do vividly remember him being a bully in school. It wasn't just that he was getting bullied, he was also the bully," 18-year-old Jaime Cruz was quoted as saying.