Uwald School records show that the decline of teen gunmen leads to shooting | Texas school shooting

Teenager Mass murder in 2022 Rob Elementary School in Uwald TexasHe began his formal education after years of academic and behavioral troubles before he opened fire in his fourth-grade classroom, according to records released Monday.

The school’s archives reveal in more detail the downward spiral of 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who has had a good record since the attack and killed 19 children and two teachers. One assessment showed that Ramos was described as a “motivated thinker and learner” in kindergarten, but in middle school he was suspended or written multiple times to harass, bullying and failing to meet the statewide minimum test standards.

October 2021 – Seven months before the shooting – Ramos evacuated high school due to “poor academics, lack of attendance” and records showing that he failed in almost all classes.

The records are thousands of pages published by Uvalde’s merger of independent school districts, after a year of legal struggle to preserve one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history.

Many documents provide new revelations around attacks and gunmen, whose troubled history has been listed in previous state and federal investigations. The record also does not include any videos from the day of the shooting – hesitation, widely criticize police reply.

These documents include the personnel files of the former Uvalde School Police Chief Pete ArredondoIn the days and weeks after the attack, one of the two officials faced criminal charges and was sent to school administrators among school administrators.

At 11.40 a.m. on the day of the shooting, Aredodo received a text message from the school district secretary, stating that another employee had reported gunshots outside the school.

“They continue to lock themselves,” reads Aredodo’s text.

arredondo and Adrian GonzalesAnother former Uwald School District official, the only responding official to face criminal charges for his actions that day. Both of them plead not guilty to multiple child harm and abandonment and awaiting trial.

Media organizations including the Associated Press Prosecution The district and county released records related to mass shootings in 2022, which resulted in 19 students and two teachers. A Texas appeal court upheld a lower court’s ruling in July that it must release the record.

The records are not the first glimpse of the public in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country, and are also a slow law enforcement response that is widely condemned. Last year, Uvalde city officials released police videos and audio recordings 911 Phone.

Ramos’ academic records show that as a kindergarten student was described as “a remarkable little boy”, he was a “very hardworking man”, but he went on to be suspended several times in junior high school, classified as “at dangerous danger” in the ninth grade, and quit from high school due to “poor academic performance.”

A few days after the shooting, a text message between a group of Uvalde school staff showed officials briefly pointed out criticism of the response, but avoided the response through text messages. An exchange noted that the enforcement schedule, which included a 77-minute delay. Another quoted news article Texas A spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Safety was forced to delay the response.

On June 12, a fourth-grade teacher at the school told principal Hal Harrell in an email that the surviving employees in the area were ignored by the district.

That teacher, Lynn Deming, described taking the students out of their breaks when they heard gunfire and then bullets “through my window.”

Deming said she tried to lie in front of the students so she could block them from Ramos’ gunshots.

“From the time he shot in the window, there were shrapnel on my back and blood on my back, but I tried to keep my students calm,” she wrote. “I need my students to hear that they were loved just in case the last thing they’ve heard.”