This content details the life and actions of Salvador Ramos, the perpetrator of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting, exploring his troubled upbringing, escalating behavioral issues, and the systemic failures that contributed to the tragedy.
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When a young man never got over being
bullied in the fourth grade, his mind
began to spiral into insanity. Even as
he continued to show all of the signs of
being a budding killer, they were
ignored time and time again. Even as the
signs he showed grew more intense,
nobody took him seriously until it was
far too late. This is the story of one
of the darkest chapters in American history.
School shootings are unfortunately not
as rare as they should be. However, most
of the time they are committed by a
student at the school who is shooting at
kids relatively their own age. There is
something even more sinister about a
grown adult coming back to school just
to assault young children. This has
happened on a few occasions, most
notably with Sandy Hook and the
Nashville shooting. This crime isn't
mentioned too much in the grand scheme
of things, but as you'll come to see, it
is definitely one of the worst there's
Salvador Rolando Ramos was born on May
16th, 2004 in Fargo, North Dakota. He
was the second child to his mom, Adriana
Martinez, and his dad, Salvador Ramos,
Senior. His parents weren't together for
too long before they ended up splitting
up. This led to his mom, a native of
Uvaldi, Texas, taking the two kids back
home with her not too long after he was
born. Yuvaldi isn't the biggest city out
there. In fact, it only boasts a
population of about 15,000 people. It's
in the United States, but it's only
about 50 mi from the Mexican border and
has an almost 80% Hispanic population.
Salvador's mom herself seemed to prefer
speaking Spanish in general and likely
wanted to return to this sort of
environment. Salvador's dad was barely
around, only having spotty contact with
his kids from that point onward.
Salvador was fairly close with his
extended family, though, especially his
cousins and grandparents. Still, the
family was in poverty, and that's
putting it pretty lightly. Salvador
himself would later say, "I used to
literally sleep with a towel instead of
a blanket. My dad was never here. He was
either in jail or out of town.
Salvador's dad was no stranger to the
law. In 2000, a few years before his son
was born, Salvador Senior got into a
scuffle with a police officer and then
made a run for it. He was charged with
resisting arrest, pleaded no contest,
and got sentenced to 180 days in the
county jail. He also had to apologize to
the police in writing. Later on, he was
also hit with a charge of aggravated
assault with a deadly weapon. This
happened after he hit a man named
Enrique Jesus Perez with a beer bottle.
[music] Given that he pled no contest
and it was only a class A misdemeanor,
he would only end up spending about 30
days in jail. He was ordered to have no
more contact with the man and had to
take part in periodic drug and alcohol
testing for a while afterward. This does
not mean that Salvador's mother was an
angel, however. In fact, it was quite
the contrary. Just before Salvador was
born, his mom, Adriana, was charged with
writing a bad check for about $20. At
the time, she was dirt broke. She only
earned about $500 a month from her job
at a Chinese buffet along with about
$223 in welfare and $269 in food stamps.
Back then, she was living in a small
apartment with six other people. Her
trial came around and she plead guilty
to the charge about a year after her son
was born. She had to pay a fine of $250,
court cost of 218, and was sentenced to
180 days in jail. But since she plead
guilty, she was given probation instead
along with 25 hours of community
service. However, only 2 years later,
she was hit with an assault charge after
she beat up a family member. Once she
agreed to enroll in anger management
counseling, the charges were dismissed
in 2007. She was also stuck with the
court fees again, this time shelling out $1,928.
$1,928.
Things were made even worse when
Salvador's mom became more and more
addicted to drugs. It has been said by
many around town that she enjoyed taking
part in a good bit of methamphetamine.
Even Salvador's old grandma, Celia Sally
Martinez Gonzalez, had been hit with
charges that haven't been specified.
Whatever they were, she was given two
years of probation in order to pay a
fine and court cost herself. Long story
short, the family was no stranger to crime.
crime.
Despite everything he had going against
him, Salvador seemed to be quite normal
as a little kid. Once it was time for
him to enroll in school, he began
attending a local preschool in the area,
the Dalton Early Childhood Center.
there. His teacher described him by
saying, "Salvador is a remarkable little
boy. He is a motivated thinker and
learner. He enjoys learning new things
and is always excited to share his
knowledge." However, eventually it was
time for Salvador to move on to higher
grades. He started going to Benson
Elementary School. However, he would
transfer out of Benson and then go on to
attend the Anthen Elementary School in
second grade. By third grade, things
were starting to fall apart for him. He
was behind his fellow students
academically by a pretty noticeable
margin. This was notably not due to a
lack of effort with his teachers even
praising his dedication to a degree, but
because he simply couldn't keep up. He
was labeled as at risk after failing
test after test until the pattern
couldn't be ignored. At one point,
someone in his family recommended speech
therapy for him as well. After that,
Salvador's family would take him out of
Anthen and enroll him at a different
school once again. He would come to
attend the Rob Elementary School in the
fourth grade. Here, things went smoothly
for a very short while. At this school,
it was said that Salvador was reluctant
to interact with other kids due to his
prominent speech impediment. Partially
due to this and his own refusal to
interact with the other kids, he became
the target of bullying very quickly. He
spent his fourth grade year in room 112
of the school and quickly came to
associate that classroom with nothing
but negativity. As the bullying became
more frequent, he was made fun of for
his speech, his very short hair, and for
wearing the same clothes every single
day. The latter of the two were mainly
due to his poverty growing up. But it
should be known that according to the
school itself, [music] 86% of the
children there were under the poverty
line. It appears that Salvador simply
had it worse off [music] than the rest
of them. As the year continued on, he
had zero friends. At one point, Salvador
faced something that he wouldn't forget
for the rest of his life. [music]
One day, a girl tied both of his
shoelaces together while he wasn't
paying attention. When he stood up and
started to walk forward, [music] he fell
flat on his face in front of the whole
class and hurt himself. This led to a
lot of laughing and ridicule. While it
may seem trivial to an adult in
hindsight, it was something that deeply
embedded itself within Salvador's mind
and never really left him. It didn't
help matters that his teacher didn't
really seem to help or intervene in any
way. Salvador's family at one point
reported that even the teachers at the
school were picking on both him and his
cousin. [music]
At home, things were even worse. Living
in a trailer with his mom that his
grandpa owned on the aptly named Hood
Street, Salvador faced something that
was much worse than his [music] bullying
at school. According to a girl that he
would come to date and grow close with
later down the line, Salvador admitted
to her that he was sexually abused by a
man his mother was dating during his
childhood. When he told his mother about
it, she sided with her boyfriend and
refused to believe him. So, he was left
with no choice but to put up with it, in
his mind, at least. [music] He had
reached out for help and had his hand
slapped away. After that, Salvador's
relationship with his mother would never
recover. [music] In fact, it only
continued to get worse over the years.
Eventually, Salvador was moved back to
Benson Elementary School for the rest of
his elementary years. After that, he
moved on to middle school, attending
Flores Middle School starting in the
sixth grade. Again, keeping up with the
trend, he was moved to Morales Middle
School before 8th grade. Still, things
didn't really improve for him. According
to his later writings, he was still
bullied throughout middle school as
well. However, his bullying in middle
school increased even more when
Salvador, according to his own later
writings, was caught masturbating in
class. He said, "I was getting bullied
because I started beating my dick in
seventh grade. Cried in front of the
whole class, yelled at by multiple
people, slapped so hard I had a bruise
on my cheek for a couple days. This is
when he started to get into trouble
himself, although it was fairly tame at
the time. He was written up for various
offenses now and then, like for
repeatedly calling a teacher by his
first name, calling other students gay,
or drawing inappropriate pictures, but
it wasn't anything too serious.
Eventually, Salvador moved on to high
school. This time he would actually
stick to one school throughout his
tenure without transferring. The Yuvaldi
High School. This high school is where
Salvador would truly begin to spiral. He
continued to get into trouble. This time
for things a little worse than before.
He would hit other kids, refuse to do
his homework, and walk out of inschool
suspension whenever he was put in there.
Salvador's performance in high school
was so bad that some of the school staff
even recommended that he start taking
some tutoring courses. When his grades
fell even more, they recommended that he
start attending special education
classes. However, his family wasn't on
board with either option, and it seems
that he never went through with either
of them. Salvador's grades were so
abysmal in his first year in high school
that he didn't pass the 9th grade and
was forced to repeat it the next year.
The next year, he didn't pass it either.
When he was forced to repeat it once
more, he still didn't pass it. By the
time Salvador was on his fourth year of
high school, he was still in the ninth
grade. This was clearly something that
would embarrass him as he would call
himself by the grade that he should have
been in at the time. While Salvador
suffered from what he felt was the worst
bullying in his life in the fourth
grade, he felt personally that he didn't
actually start to go downhill until
middle school and that things only got
worse from then on out. He later wrote
in the notes app on his phone. From
sixth grade to sophomore year, I was
bullied. Did you know I skipped a lot of
7th, 8th, and 9th and 10th grade?
Because I was bullied. 10th grade, I
probably went to school for like 2
weeks. Ninth, I missed over three months
of school. Eighth, I missed so much
school. And seventh, I barely, so I
haven't even been to school that much at
all. I used to cry almost every day when
I went home how much my life sucked. I
used to walk home and cry in 8th grade
cuz I was getting bullied. There's so
much times I walked home crying. And
there's more stuff, but I don't want to
get into it that it's bad. I have been
bullied/h harassed my whole school
career. Slapped, slapped with gerx,
tripped, punched, picked on, pushed down
the stairs. I had to walk out of school
so much times I would cry all the way
home because people were so mean to me.
I was getting bullied at a lunch table
and I was crying so much I had to switch
[music] to a younger table. I was told
constantly I was ugly as [ __ ] Even
girls would bully me and I was scared to
say anything to anyone. I asked the
counselor to switch my classes and she
was asking why and I didn't tell her
because I was terrified of what would
happen to me. And that was sophomore
year. I was so depressed in 2020 crying
myself to sleep almost every day because
I was felt so lonely. I wanted to get a
job, but that would mean I couldn't see
Steven, and he is my only friend, so I
meant that I would be even more sadder.
There is even a video recorded by
Salvador's classmates in high school
that shows him getting picked on at
school. Once again, being taunted for
wearing the same thing to class every
day. Be a big pan, [laughter] big
laughing. That's how you always wear you
always wear the same clothes every day.
You ain't got no outfit every
[ __ ] day. You wear the same
thing to shut the [ __ ] up you got to
say. You ain't going to say nothing. Say
to my [ __ ] face.
>> Oh god.
However, this might have actually been
in good fun. It's important to note that
others have said the opposite, that
Salvador was not bullied, and he was
usually the one picking fights himself.
This could have been about high school
specifically, not about elementary or
middle school, but some have come forth
on video saying so.
>> Salador Ramos was a boy who was not
bullied. He would try to pick on people,
but fail, and it would aggravate him. I
would like to get that out of the way.
He was not bullied.
He prior and I don't see this covered
and I'm going to put this out there. He
would hurt animals. He was not a good
person. He would go to the parks and try
to pick fights.
Salvador had been turning away most
people who he considered to be friends.
Whether it was his attitude or just the
weird way he act in general, he was
raising eyebrows all around.
>> I wasn't going to start being his friend
no more because like he was being weird
with like not only me but like a lot of
other people. He had scars on his face
and I remember somebody asking him like,
"What happened? Are you okay?" Cuz he
showed up to school with them. And he
just straight out told them, you know,
with a smile, I I did it myself.
>> After being called ugly for most of his
life, Salvador came to obsess over his
looks. He went through so many physical
changes that it later became somewhat of
a meme online that he never looked like
the same guy in any of his pictures. He
admitted to having an eating disorder at
the time from this obsession as well,
suffering from both anorexia and
bulimia. He wrote, "I was sickly skinny
because I would never eat because my ED
was so bad. I had to go to the hospital
because I would barely eat. I was
anorexic back in late 2020. I was
sticking a finger in my mouth and
throwing up all my food back in January."
January."
By this time, Salvador did have that one
friend named Steven who lived quite a
ways away. This is likely why he felt
that having a job would limit how often
he could see him anymore, and he was
already pretty limited on that. He also
had a girlfriend named Regina, the only
one that he ever had or ever would have.
Still, none of this did anything to
improve Salvador's mental state. That
>> By his final year of high school in
2021, Salvador was spiraling more than
ever before. His thoughts and writings
grew more violent in nature. He began to
show signs of cruelty towards animals, a
desire to sexually abuse women and men,
and an interest in mass violence.
Feeling like he had very little to lose
at this point, he began to fantasize
about beating and violating his bullies.
He wrote, "But damn, you called me a
quiet kid and wonder why I'm so
antisocial. Well, I told you I hate
people and I will never change. And I
wish someone tried to bully me. I would
beat the living [ __ ] out of them and rap
them till they [ __ ] bleed." His
fellow students started to notice as
well. One student at his school named
Crystal later told the media that he
gave off a bad vibe, saying that he
looked like he might shoot up the place.
They mostly said it was a joke at the
time with her adding, "You heard people
joke and say, "He looks like a school
shooter." Before clarifying that it
wasn't really only him that got this
treatment, saying, "I've heard it said
about other people." While Salvador
didn't have any documented mental
illness, it isn't hard to come to the
conclusion that he was suffering from
something. He himself had Googled the
term sociopath on his phone and reached
out about possible treatment, even
getting an email back. He never did
pursue the treatment any further than
that, however. >> [music]
>> [music]
>> Instead, Salvador became completely
addicted to this phone, especially
Instagram. He would interact with well
over a hundred Instagram posts in one
way or another each and every day, often
staying on it until anywhere from 2:00
a.m. to 4:00 a.m. before getting a bit
of sleep. He had at least 20 known
Instagram accounts that he used to get
all this done. His girlfriend said he
would stay up all night where sometimes
he would sleep barely. His girlfriend
notably lived a good distance away from
him in San Antonio. Given that Salvador
never really bothered learning how to
drive and didn't have a license, seeing
her often wasn't a possibility. Given
that both his only friend and his
girlfriend lived so far away, he still
effectively felt like he had nobody in
his life. Regina even said he didn't
have any friends. He had no one.
Salvador left home one day and came back
a little beat up and told his family
that he had been jumped by some kids he
used to think were his friends. After
that, he started trying to learn boxing
and MMA off the internet. Given how he
wanted to be internet famous, he decided
to film his journey from time to time,
taking videos of himself wrestling with
a friend or punching a sandbag that he
hung up in his room. Because of COVID
lockdown, Salvador had been out of
school for a while by 2020. [music] By
the time 2021 came around, it was time
to go back to school full-time again as
normal. However, his grades had gotten
so bad. He was bombing every
standardized test, and he had skipped so
much school that [music] the school
staff found it kind of pointless. He had
skipped over a 100 days of in-person
classes since 2018. At the end of
October 2021, the staff at Yuvaldi High
School withdrew him from his courses.
Part of this was because the school was
so lax in enforcing any rules when it
came to truency. If the rules were
enforced at all, it was very seldom and
inconsistent. [music] It didn't appear
that anyone from the school did much to
reach out to his parents about this
decision before it was made, if they did
anything at all. Regardless, Salvador
was now out of high school. He never
graduated from the ninth [music] grade
in his four years there. Things grew
even worse for him when his girlfriend
decided to dump him. She said that it
was due to his both creepy and obsessive
nature, calling it out of the ordinary
bad. Regina said that Salvador
repeatedly told her that he wouldn't
live past the age of 18, either saying
that he would take matters into his own
hands or that he simply wouldn't live a
long life without elaborating. [music]
She said that he would often get angry
at her and threaten her. It happened so
often, in fact, that she couldn't even
remember how many times it had actually
happened. After the breakup, Salvador
proceeded to harass both her and her
friends over the internet for a good
long while. Even when she got a new
boyfriend, he still continued.
Regina Regina Siller,
you know, if you saw me right now, you
Regina Sil [laughter]
[laughter] Regina,
Regina,
send me a voice message. I want to hear
your voice. Hurry up. Stop playing games
with me. Hurry the [ __ ] up. >> Salvador,
>> Salvador,
you're scary. Like legit, you are scary.
You have a mental illness and and you
need to get therapy and something.
>> One of his mom's many ex-boyfriends
described Salvador as being a loner who
punched holes in the wall whenever his
mom would make him mad. Over the year,
he started dressing in exclusively all
black, bought a pair of combat boots,
and let his hair grow long and unckempt.
With these two major humiliations in a
row, Salvador started to overcorrect in
the other direction. He began to make it
appear online as if he were something
really special. He would often write
that he was going to be famous someday. [music]
[music]
He texted a friend and told him, "We're
going to be famous as fuck." with a
bunch of chart increasing emojis
implying some sort of personal or
financial growth. [music] He wrote
messages to himself in his notes app as
well, telling himself how great he was.
One of them read as, "I'm an unknown
genius and I will impact society in a
good way by September 2022." [music]
Still, Salvador wasn't actually doing
anything. While he had previously wanted
to fit in, he now showed no interest. He
didn't even have much to do with his
family. His sister had graduated and
left home. He hated his mom. And he had
no interest at all in her boyfriends. He
didn't go to school. He didn't have a
job. And he almost completely withdrew
from society aside from his social media
obsession. [music] S continued to harass
a lot of different girls online. He
often made a lot of them extremely
uncomfortable, usually making some sort
of advance before immediately resorting
to making rap threats or telling them
they were going to die in one way or
another. In one leaked conversation, he
seen saying hey to a random girl before
telling her he would worship her. When
she didn't respond immediately, he told
her to jump off a bridge. [music] As his
fascination with Instagram grew, so did
his interest in other social media
platforms as well. He became very active
on Tik Tok, YouTube, and for some reason
a French live streaming app called Yubo.
He tried to network with other people
his age on Snapchat, and started playing
video games online as well. He was
especially into Call of Duty, Grand
Theft Auto, and Fortnite. Most of his
online accounts were notably very edgy.
Almost all of his usernames referenced a
desire for revenge, or the idea of
conflict in one way or another. Some of
his usernames and addresses were revenge@gmail.com,
revenge@gmail.com, revengevan@gmail.com,
revengevan@gmail.com,
I'mma kill you6, revenge, s revenge,
Salvador fights, disrupts, and the
biggest op. People who play games with
Salvador online would come to describe
him as an [ __ ] saying that he would
often fly into a rage whenever he lost.
He would especially take his anger out
on any female players in the lobby on
either team, [music] usually going to
private messages just to harass them
even afterwards. He was said to have
terrorized them each for a good amount
of time with graphic descriptive threats
of rape and violence against them.
Salvador's interest in everything dark
had been growing at the same time.
Things to that effect were often on his
mind. He took a big interest in watching
gore videos online, anything from murder
to gruesome accidents. As his desire to
become something more than a single
dropout grew, Salvador began to develop
a bit of a god complex, and he showed it
in a very childish way, he started to
refer to other people online as humans,
implying that he was something above
that. He said he had difficulty
connecting with other people as a
result, saying that he lacked empathy.
He really came to believe that he would
be famous one day, most likely on either
Tik Tok or YouTube. Even though both of
his accounts barely got any views at
all, each and every singular view would
immediately go to his head. He would
brag online that he was already getting
famous and would call other people
randoms, saying that they were lucky to
even be interacting with him at all.
In late 2021, Salvador decided to get a
job in order to get some funds. He first
started working at a What a Burger.
Here, he would face another humiliation
when an ex-friend's grandma saw him
there. She took a picture of him and
sent it to her grandson, telling him
that this is how he would end up if he
ever quit school. This idea caught on,
and some people began to reach out to
Salvador just to make fun of him for
working there. >> [music]
>> [music]
>> He didn't even keep that job for very
long anyhow, as he didn't even last a
month before he began to threaten to
sexually assault a female co-orker.
Pretty quickly after, Salvador got
another job at a Wendy's instead.
[music] This time, he would actually
hold the job, doing so by neglecting to
interact with the other co-workers as
much as he could, at least on the job
itself. While his manager said that he
rarely interacted with anyone on the
job, his female co-workers reported that
he would often send them inappropriate
text messages after hours. According to
his manager, he left to try and pick
fights with co-workers. If anyone
criticized him, he would puff out his
chest and scream, "Do you know who I
am?" The truth was, they didn't. Nobody
could figure out exactly why he thought
so highly of himself. They began to make
fun of him as a result, calling him
school shooter because of his long,
messy hair and his black jackets. One of
his co-workers at Wendy's later said
that he was troubled and, in their
words, not a good person. This person
said he quote put himself in a box and
would not talk to or associate with
anyone he worked with. Outside of this
job, Salvador also started to help out
his grandfather with his business,
repairing air conditioners. For this, he
would often be paid in cash. Given that
he still lived at home and had no
expenses, Salvador only hoarded his
money. His family felt that he was most
likely saving for a car or hopefully to
move out. He would later come to prove
that this wasn't the case. He started to
brag to his friends that he was quote
saving for something big, telling them
that they would see him on the news one
day. Still 17 years old, he started to
spend his money once he had a
substantial amount saved up. While he
couldn't get his hands on a gun, he
could buy some random gun- rellated
accessories and tactical clothing that
wasn't actually harmful on its own. He
ordered some rifle slings and shinuards
online at first. Then he ordered himself
a tactical vest. He also bought a red
dot site for a gun that he didn't have,
but knew he wanted to buy in the future.
Frustrated and not wanting to wait, he
began to ask several people he knew over
the age of 18 if they would buy guns for
him, including his sister. They all refused.
refused.
Salvador had developed a fascination
with school shooters. While he had put
in a little effort to hide that fact at
first, he quickly adopted it as a quirky
trait of his. He started to use his own
school shooter nickname, calling himself
Yubo school shooter while he would live
stream. He would even pose in his
tactical vest while holding his BB gun,
trying to convince his viewers that it
was a real gun. Even so, he was never
banned despite being reported. Things
took a much darker turn for the worst
when Salvador became enthralled with a
documentary on Netflix. That being Don't
[ __ ] with Cats hunting an internet
killer, a documentary about Luca Magna.
Luca had killed an international
student, abused cats, and fled to
another country. Like Salvador, Luca
also had a desire to get famous, and he
was willing to attain that goal by any
means necessary. Given how he had killed
multiple cats, the internet was
rightfully outraged and did everything
they could to identify him and track him
down. Salvador didn't learn at all from
that aspect of the story. One day in
2021, he posted a video online that
showed him driving around with who he
called someone he met on the internet
holding a clear plastic bag with a dead
cat inside. He later threw the bag into
the street and spit on it while his
anonymous friend laughed. They then took
a video wearing a tactical vest and
firing BB guns at people. The next video
they took together was of an ambulance
responding to a car accident, an
accident that he said his friend from
the internet caused. It isn't clear if
he had actually killed this cat or if he
just found it that way and wanted people
to think he had. If he had, it was yet
another clear sign that he was a budding
serial/mass killer. And according to
some online, he probably did. Some who
had seen Salvador streaming on Yubo said
that he actually did live stream himself
abusing and killing animals, at least
one of which was a cat. They said he
would also live stream a few attempts to
kidnap girls in order to force himself
upon them. On some live streams, he even
boasted for the first time that he
wanted to commit a school shooting one
day. All of these instances were
reported to Yubo, who promptly ignored
each and every report. Other users would
call him out as well. for everyone.
Everyone is worth deserves to get raped.
>> No, just you, buddy.
>> Out of everybody in the world, just you.
>> You deserve death row.
>> You deserve to get curb, my guy.
>> Given that he wasn't seeing a ban
anywhere in sight, he continued down
this road. He bragged that he would
drive around with his friend and fire
his BB gun at people from the car,
sometimes egging other vehicles in the
process. and he started to post pictures
to Instagram of semi-automatic rifles
that he wanted to buy one day, like the DDM4V7.
DDM4V7.
Still, despite all of his bragging about
planning something big and calling
himself a school shooter, it doesn't
appear that Salvador had any real
concrete plans laid out at the time. It
appeared that they had started out as
more of a fantasy or maybe even a
character that he started to lean more
into as time went on. That would all
come to a change when 2022 came around.
This was when a pivotal moment would
take place in Salvador's life. A fight
with his mother that would be the straw
that broke the camel's back in their
relationship. In or around early March
of 2022, he got into a fight with his
mom after he turned off the Wi-Fi. Given
that he decided to film the fight for an
Instagram reel, it's possible that he
started it for content. In the video,
the argument grew more and more
aggressive with Salvador calling her a
[ __ ] repeatedly. While they had argued
countless times in the past, this one
became one of the worst. It was to the
extent that the police were called, but
no arrest was ever made despite
Salvador's mom saying that she was very
afraid of him. Because of that, Salvador
began looking for some way to move out.
Over the year, he had gotten more
support than usual from his extended
family. His grandfather had been paying
him for his help working, and his
cousins had been slowly growing closer
to him. Given how strung out his mother
was, Salvador's grandma, who they called
Sally, had gradually been becoming more
of a mother figure to him and a sister
over the years as well. So Salvador
decided to reach out and ask if he could
live with his grandma only a few blocks
away from his old elementary [music]
school, Rob Elementary. In that house,
which was pretty small, he didn't have a
room of his own. Instead, he slept on
the living room floor. This setup wasn't
really working for him. A day came when
he confided in his older cousin, who was
also staying there, that he didn't have
much of a desire to live anymore. The
two ended up having a good, long talk
together. After the cousin was pretty
convinced that she had gotten through to
him and that he had changed his mind.
However, this same sort of thing would
happen with an uncle afterward as well
who also thought that he seemingly
peptalked him back into staying alive.
They had no idea how wrong they really were.
were.
By this point, Salvador was making some
real plans to carry out some sort of
shooting. While we will never know for
sure, it's highly speculated that he
decided to target Rob Elementary for one
simple reason. the fact that he had
supposedly faced some of his worst
bullying in that fourth grade classroom.
He started to buy some more accessories
for a shooting in the leadup to his 18th
birthday. He bought himself a large
number of 30 round magazines, up to 60
of them according to some sources, a
holographic sight, and a Hellfire Gen 2
Snap-on trigger system, which is a
trigger modification that allows for
much faster semi-automatic fire.
On March 23rd, someone noticed a
suspicious person dressed in all black
with a large backpack who was walking
around the Rob Elementary campus. While
that person has never been identified,
it would be quite the coincidence if it
wasn't Salvador. Salvador started
spending time with a young cousin who
was attending Rob Elementary at the time
as well. The two would often play Roblox
together. While it seemed like a nice
gesture to those on the outside,
Salvador's motives were anything but
pure. He began to quiz his young cousin
on many different things related to the
school. He asked for specific details on
how the class schedule works and how the
lunch periods played out.
One of Salvador's friends told him that
month in a conversation on Instagram,
"People at school talk [ __ ] about you
and call you school shooter. Salvador
apparently didn't care that much. On
April 2nd, Salvador sent one of his
friends on Instagram a message asking,
"Are you still going to remember me in
50 days?" That friend jokingly
responded, "Probably not." to which
Salvador responded with, "hm, all right,
we'll see in May." Salvador's
relationship with his mother never
improved again in the slightest. With
his father, he felt less of a sense of
hatred and more of a sense of apathy.
Given how little his father had been in
his life, Salvador Senior felt his son
had no love for him. When he saw him
sometime in April, he noticed that
Salvador had done some seemingly
self-inflicted cuts to his face. He also
heard his son say that he would be doing
something soon, although he didn't
elaborate on what it was.
That May, Salvador started ramping up
his plans to carry out a shooting. His
birthday was fast approaching, taking
place on the 16th. He continued to lean
into the school shooter persona,
creating another note on his iPhone that
said, "Ask your school about me." Then
on May 10th, he took a screenshot of his
bank account summary showing that he had $5,127.78
in savings left. That night, he wrote
another note saying, "I'mma be all over
the news in 12 days." meaning he was
planning his shooting for the 22nd. 2
days later on the 12th, he went to a
website where he could create and
display his own countdown timer. He set
it for the 16th, his birthday. He
started to drop hints on social media as
well. Hints that were anything but
subtle. 2 days later on the 14th, he
sent a private message on Instagram that
read, "10 more days." Now implying that
he was planning something big on the
24th. This friend responded to him,
noting his ominous tone, saying, "Are
you going to shoot up a school or
something to that?" Salvador responded
with, "No, stop asking dumb questions.
You'll see." Many other people who
Salvador chatted with online
corroborated this, saying that he had
been making cryptic comments about dates
for a while now, sometimes with him even
saying that he would appear on the news soon.
soon.
Salvador was overjoyed to watch the
clock hit midnight on May 16th. He was
now officially 18 years old, and nothing
would be holding him back from buying a
gun any longer. Exactly 18 minutes after
turning 18, he logged onto a website and
began the process to buy a DDM 4v7 rifle
from Daniel Defense. Getting the
confirmation email, he briefly opened up
the calculator app to check his funds.
Satisfied, he went through with the
purchase. The total cost was $2,28.28.
While it wasn't all of his savings, it
would be a very large portion of it. The
gun was all set to be shipped to a gun
store in Nuvaldi called Oasis Outback,
where he would be able to pick it up
later. This gun had been at the top of
his wish list for a long time, and he
couldn't wait to finally get his hands
on it. Afterwards, he made himself
another countdown timer. This time for
May 23rd, once again changing the date
for when he wanted to carry out his
attack. On May 17th, only one day after
his birthday, he went out to the Oasis
Outback store in person to purchase a
different gun. Salvador got his uncle to
drive him out to the gun shop, saying
that he wanted to go to a restaurant
next door to get something to eat. After
his uncle dropped him off, he went
inside. The gun he would buy would be a
Smith and Wesson M&P15, a rifle similar
to the one he had bought previously.
This one costed him $1,8142.
When he later regrouped with his uncle,
carrying a long box and no food, it was
pretty clear that he had actually bought
a gun. Given that he had no experience
with guns, his uncle noted that he
struggled to get a magazine into the
rifle, causing it to come falling out
onto the floor a few times. Salvador
started to look up different gun ranges
in the area to learn how to use it, but
he wasn't able to find one that allowed
the type of rifle that he was using, so
he gave up. He then realized that he
didn't even know what kind of ammunition
his own gun took, so he Googled that as
well. He then asked Google whether a
magazine can be reused once it's
emptied. He then looked up where to buy
juggernaut armor, the fictional armor
from the Call of Duty series. He also
began taking pictures of himself with
his new guns. When his friends felt that
he was just being edgy as usual and that
the guns weren't real, he showed them
the receipts, the literal receipts. As
word got around, rumors began to spread
quickly. Another friend reached out to
Salvador to tell him that one of their
acquaintances was going around telling
everyone that he was planning on
shooting up a school. He had likely
hoped to hear Salvador confirm that this
was not the case. Both Salvador's
grandma, Sally, and his cousin told him
that he couldn't have a gun in his
house. So, his uncle agreed to store it
at his own. However, it wasn't long
before Salvador took the gun from his
uncle's home and snuck it back to his
grandma's house. He hid the gun
somewhere outside for the time being,
according to a text he sent one of his
friends. On May 18th, Salvador also
purchased a very large amount of
ammunition for his rivals, anywhere from 1,657
1,657
to 1,740 rounds in total, depending on
He now had $256.58
left in his savings. It isn't known who
drove him out to the store on this
outing. Salvador came to learn on May
14th, only days prior, a man named
Payton Jindren had carried out a mass
shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo,
New York. On the 19th, he began
searching for information related to
that shooting. Although information was
fairly sparse at the time. Then the next
day on May 20th, Salvador was excited to
see an email at around 11:00 a.m.
stating that his gun had arrived at the
store. He was finally ready to go pick
up the DDM4V7 that he had first ordered.
He was down at Oasis Outback within 7
minutes to pick up his gun. Once again,
getting arrived from his uncle. This
time, he told his uncle that he was only
getting some ammunition for the first
gun, with it already having slipped that
he owned that one at least. Upon
receiving his gun, Salvador asked the
store staff to install his holographic
sight for him. Salvador admitted that he
had never fired a gun in real life
before, let alone attached a sight.
Satisfied with the setup, he rushed home
to show off his new weapon. He
immediately started taking some pictures
of the gun to send to some friends. Once
his background check was finished, it
showed that Salvador had qualified for
the purchase. While buying a few guns of
that nature in a short time requires the
shop to report to the ATF, only the
purchase of multiple handguns in a short
period would have required them to
report it to the local police. The owner
of Oasis Outback said that Salvador
seemed like an average guy, noting that
he didn't have any apparent red flags or
suspicious activity. All he noted was
that he was alone and fairly quiet. He
did remember questioning him as to how
an 18-year-old could afford two
expensive guns like he had bought.
Salvador responded that he had simply
saved up his money over time. Other
customers within the gun store described
Salvador very differently, however,
noting that he seemed very nervous and
appeared odd. They even specifically
stated that he looked like a cliche
version of a school shooter. One thing
they all agreed on was that he gave off
a bad vibe. With that, Salvador had the
gun that he wanted so badly. He made his
way back to his uncle's car, once again
carrying a long box. This time, his
uncle didn't inquire as to what it was.
He simply felt that this was the
ammunition and magazines he had
mentioned previously.
The next day, on the 21st, Salvador
displayed his self-proclaimed genius by
googling how many days till May 24th. It
was 3 days away. He was so excited to
use his gun that he couldn't even think
straight. He posted a picture of his two
rifles to his Instagram account.
Salvador ended up getting a text from
one of his friends saying that he was
going to be in Yuvaldi soon and that the
two should hang out. Salvador, for
reasons unknown to his friend,
responded, "If it's before May 23rd, I'm
down." Given that Salvador had nothing
going on and that he didn't appear to be
moving, this would have been odd. This
friend said that he would probably be
going in July or August. Salvador
responded with, "Damn, that's too late."
before sending him a message saying,
"I'm about to get two ARs. Want to see?"
When his friend agreed, Salvador
responded with pictures of his guns
before saying, "Just spent 1,652
on ammo and 2,150 on some AR." The
friend, noting his usual school shooter
persona online, responded with, "SMH,
giving me school shooter vibes." To
everyone who knew him, Salvador's true
nature was as clear as day. [music]
However, none of them wanted to believe it.
it.
Salvador could no longer wait for what
he was about to do. He was giddy at the
idea of carrying out a shooting on his
old elementary school. While many other
shooters seemed to fall into more of a
depression leading up to the day, even
expressing doubts at what they were
about to do, Salvador was very much the
opposite. On Sunday evening, May 22nd,
he once again pulled out his phone to
Google how many hours till May 24th,
11:00 a.m. The next day, he was just as
antsy as ever. It was now the day before
his planned massacre. He messaged a
younger German teenage girl he talked to
online saying, "I got a little secret."
When she asked him what it was, he said
it was impossible for today, telling her
that he was still waiting for something
to be delivered by 7:00 p.m. Later that
day, at around 5:00 p.m., a shipment of
hollowpoint bullets from optixplanet.com
arrived for him. [music] That day,
someone called a threat into the Yuvali
school district. A young man had called
and said, "You know your school just got
shot up, right? How did that feel?" When
the person on the other line tried to
ask more questions, the man hung up. He
then called again later from a different
number. In the end, this wasn't even
reported to the higherups for whatever
reason. It hasn't been stated for
certain that this was Salvador, but
again, it would have been another big
coincidence if it wasn't. When night
came around, Salvador couldn't sleep.
Right before midnight, he Googled, "How
long till 11:00 a.m. tomorrow?" Salvador
couldn't count up to 11 from midnight.
In private messages to other friends,
Salvador implied that the next day would
be significant to him. Many have
speculated that he had chosen the 24th
as the day of his massacre for one
simple reason. It was a local tradition
that seniors would return to their
elementary school to walk the halls at
lunchtime. That would explain why he had
chosen 11:00 a.m. on that specific day
and why he grilled his cousin on how the
lunch periods worked. In his mind, the
people who bullied him while he was in
the fourth grade would be there that
day. Salvador had actually spoken with a
friend shortly before that this time in
the fourth grade had affected him
deeply, saying that he had very bad
memories of it. Little did he know, the
date for that walk had been moved up.
The seniors had walked on the 21st
instead. At 11:13 p.m., Salvador texted
one of his online friends saying, "I
have something outside in the back of
the house, and I can't bring it inside
till I make sure my grandma's asleep. I
don't want her to see it." He later sent
another message to that friend, this
time saying, "I'm going to bed. I
already got the thing right next to me."
Salvador then finally got some sleep,
cuddling all night on the floor with his
rifles, dreaming of the carnage he was
>> On the morning of May 24th, 2022,
Salvador was sitting at home with his
grandparents. At the time, he was
sending out some text messages to the
girl in Germany that he had been talking
to for a while that he had originally
met on Yubo. He tagged her in a picture
of his guns and DM'd her, writing, "I'll
text you in an hour, but you have to
respond. I got a little secret. I want
to tell you. He stopped by his room to
make a short video for social media
showing his clothes that day. Over the
past couple of weeks, Salvador's
grandmother, Sally, had been threatening
to remove him from her mobile plan.
While he was texting this girl, she
called customer service to do just that.
Salvador continued to message at least
one person. He had a FaceTime call with
the girl in Germany. Afterward, he ended
the call and continued to send her
messages over Facebook Messenger.
Immediately after their call, Salvador's
grandma came to him and had an argument
with him about being a failure. She told
him that she was on the call with AT&T
to cut him off from the phone plan.
Salvador texted the German girl, telling
her, "I'mma tell you right now. Hold on.
Waiting for this [ __ ] I'mma do
something to her right now." Oh my god.
She's on the phone with AT&T about my
phone. It's annoying. What? After that,
Salvador decided to add one more death
to his plans for the day. He left to go
get one of his rifles and returned to
the living room. He pulled it up to his
66-year-old grandma's head and shot her
directly in the face. He then collected
himself for a few moments before
messaging the German girl once again. He
told her, "I just shot my grandma in her
head. I'm going to go shoot up an
elementary school right now." This girl
didn't believe that he was telling the
truth. She responded with a sarcastic
[music] cool. Little did she know she
had been receiving accurate live updates.
updates.
Shortly before, an awards ceremony was
being held at Rob Elementary School. It
was one of the last days of school
before summer vacation, and many
students were set to graduate soon. Some
students chose to go home after the
ceremony, but many others decided to
stay behind and watch movies in their
classrooms with their friends. Salvador
took his grandma's keys and made his way
outside. He threw all of his gear into
her Ford F-150 before sliding into the
driver's seat himself. He then turned
the key and set off on the short journey
to Rob Elementary. Little did he know
his grandma was still alive. Although
she was severely injured with the bullet
tearing through the left side of her
face, it hadn't gone through her brain
at all. She managed to slowly begin
stumbling from the home in order to get
help from the neighbors. Despite not
having a driver's license, Salvador did
his best to drive out to the school
himself. He did not do well. Driving
toward Rob Elementary on South Grove
Street, he lost control of the truck
completely and went crashing through a
barricade and straight into a large
ditch a short distance away from the
school. At least one of the wheels on
the truck was completely ruined, meaning
that it was no longer going to be of any
use. So, he decided to set off on foot.
With what had happened with his grandma,
Salvador was late in his plans. When he
crashed the truck, it was now 11:28.
Salvador hopped out of the truck and
into the ditch. He was wearing all black
clothing with his tactical vest over
that carrying ammunition inside. He was
carrying one of his rifles, the DDM4V7,
and seven magazines of ammunition. He
decided to leave the other gun in the
crash truck. Two men at a funeral home
across from the school noticed the crash
and made their way outside to make sure
the driver was okay. They got fairly
close to the truck, standing above the
ditch and looking down at him from the
road. At that time, Salvador was getting
his gear ready. He popped into view from
inside the ditch and began to fire at
the two of them. Luckily, neither of
them were hit. They turned around and
began to run back toward the funeral
home. Immediately, someone inside called
911 and reported the shooting. In
addition, the police started receiving a
volley of calls related to the crash
pickup truck in the ditch as people
drove by. A coach at Rob Elementary, Yet
Silva, was outside with some of her
third graders when she noticed a
backpack come soaring over the fence and
onto the grass inside the school
grounds. It was then that she saw a
young man dressed in black climbing over
it. The next thing she saw was the
barrel of his gun rising up to shoot
her. She ran from that field and towards
her classroom. She grabbed the school
radio and shouted, "Coach Silva to
office. Somebody just jumped over the
fence and he's shooting." Coach Silva
then ran out to the third graders
outside and ordered them into lockdown.
While she expected to hear a lockdown
notification, she heard no such thing
for quite a while. While the principal
had tried to issue an announcement, she
was having trouble with the Wi-Fi.
Salvador was then seen making his way
over to the fourth grade teacher's
parking lot, firing his gun
periodically. This was when a teacher
outside of the school made the first 911
call, urging the local police to come
out to the scene. This teacher then ran
into the school through its west
entrance and shut it behind her. This
door would remain unlocked as, for
whatever reason, it was only possible to
lock from the outside with a key.
Salvador began to fire toward the school
from outside, shattering some classroom
windows. A janitor was notified to start
locking all of the doors of the school,
but he grew scared from the gunfire
partway through and hid in the
cafeteria. At around the same time, a
Yuvaldi Consolidated Independent School
District, or UCISD officer, Sergeant
Coronado, first arrived on scene, having
heard the last 911 call himself. There
he saw two Yuvaldi police officers who
had already arrived on scene. Sergeant
Coronado asked them where the shooting
was taking place. They said that they
didn't know. Salvador, meanwhile,
continued to fire. Given the sound of
the gunshots were echoing outdoors, the
police thought that they were actually
being shot at. They then noticed a group
of children in the playground running
away from the school. That was when one
of the officers saw Salvador making
quick pace toward the school. He had a
clean shot and raised his rifle, asking
permission from Sergeant Coronado to
shoot. Sergeant Coronado would never
give him that permission. If he had
given the permission to shoot this
clearly armed gunman shooting at young
children, they would have saved many
lives that day. Unfortunately, Salvador
continued to the school uninterrupted.
This would be the first of many, many
mistakes that fateful day. Immediately
after, a school resource officer came
driving toward the school at a high
speed. He saw a teacher outside,
immediately mistaking him for the
shooter. He drove right past Salvador,
who was in clear sight, and began
chasing the teacher down in his car instead.
instead.
It was now 11:33. Only a few short
minutes had passed. This was when a
fourth grade teacher in room 102 heard
the gunshots, thinking it was the sound
of metal hitting brick. In a way, it
was. She looked outside and saw Salvador
with his gun and bag walking up the
sidewalk to one of the entrances. She
ordered her students to get down and hid
behind a curtain herself. Salvador then
made his way up to the west entrance,
the same door that the teacher had just
ran into previously. Given that the door
was unlocked, he was able to enter the
school completely unimpeded. As Salvador
entered, he was seen on the school
security camera raising his head and
looking around with a maniacal grin. He
shouted something along the way, which
is thought to have been, "Little kids,
time to wake up." At the same time, he
was blaring music from either a speaker
or his phone all the way. He walked a
short distance forward and turned to the
right. He already had his target area in
mind, the connected classrooms that made
up 111 and 112, the same place where he
had been bullied himself in the fourth
grade. He wasted no time walking
straight to that room without giving any
attention at all to any other potential
target. While walking, he taunted,
"Ready or not, here I come." As he made
his way toward that room, a child came
down the hall and looked around the
corner to see what was happening. That
was when Salvador pulled up his rifle
and aimed it toward the window on the
door to room 112. The two teachers
inside had received an email about an
active shooter in the school. One of
them, Irma Garcia, got up to look out
the door to see what was happening. It
was at that very moment that she saw
Salvador. As she blocked the door with
her body, he immediately began to fire
through the door multiple times, hitting
Irma in the side and at least one
student. He fired off several shots,
causing students inside to scream out in
terror. As the shots rang out, the
teacher in the connected room, Arnu
Reyes, heard what was happening. he
said. All of the sudden, we hear the
first shots. Boom, boom, boom. In the
confusion, none of them knew what the
sounds were. No announcement had been
made for the school to go into lockdown.
And unless you were lucky enough to have
been one of the people to get an email
and read it instantly, most people were
unaware that a shooting was even taking
place. As the sound of gunshots
continued, students began to ask what
was going on. Mr. Reyes thought it might
be a drill until he saw sheetrock come
flying through the wall and into his
classroom as a bullet shot through. He
told the students to get underneath a
long table that was placed against a
wall. He asked them all to hide
underneath and pretend like they're
sleeping. He didn't want them to see
what might happen next. He began to make
his way over to his own position that he
had learned from previous drills in the
school, an area of the room where he
could hide while also seeing the doors
and windows. Salvador then paused from
his shooting momentarily before moving
closer to the door which was in a small
inlet area in the hallway. He then put
his arm through the door and unlocked
it. He moved inside and began firing
again, asking, "Are you all ready to
die?" This time, firing many more shots
than before. One little girl in the room
recalled seeing many of her friends fall
to the ground as she herself collapsed
due to the bullet fragments in her side,
shoulder, back, and neck. Salvador
backed out into the hallway once more.
He then looked at the connected
classroom, room 111. Much like before,
he began to fire through the window on
the door and into the classroom. The
lock to room 111 had actually been
broken for quite some time. The teacher
had even sent numerous reports to the
school asking for it to be fixed, all of
which had gone ignored time and time
again. Because of that, they were
sitting ducks. When Salvador realized
that he could open this door, he shoved
the door open before stepping back into
the hallway to fire another volley of
bullets into the room. He then walked
inside of the room and took aim at Mr.
Reyes. Mr. Rehea said, "When I went
around my kidney table to get to my
spot, I got shot and I fell to the
floor. By then, he had already entered
my room." Salvador, coming into the
classroom, shouted, "Well, look what we
have here." as he began to fire
indiscriminately around the class.
Aiming at each student one by one, he
shot them multiple times each. Most of
them either screamed for help or beg for
him to stop, only for him to taunt them
even more before firing a volley of
shots at them, sometimes up to 10 per
person. At some point during this
wildfiring, Salvador shot a bullet
through the wall that would go on to hit
another teacher, Miss Aila, in room 109
as well. After that, everything got
quiet. Mr. Reyes couldn't hear any more
sounds coming from any of his students.
Salvador scooped up some blood from one
of the students on his fingers. He made
his way over and scrolled LOL on the
classroom's whiteboard. [music] He then
sat behind the teacher's desk for a few moments.
moments.
Shortly after, a girl in room 112 began
to shout at police outside who have
shouted, "Yell if y'all need help."
Saying, "We're in here." Salvador had
thought that they were all dead. He
stood up and went back to room 112
through the connected door in the
classroom. Seeing Irma Garcia on the
floor, he backed her further into the
class. He shouted, "It's time to die.
You guys are mine." As he entered
inside, he then made eye contact with
Garcia one more time. He shouted, "Good
night!" before firing multiple shots
toward her and killing her for good. He
then noticed a girl trying to call 911
on a phone, shooting her in the head on
the spot. He said, "You're all going to
die." before once again unleashing a
stream of gunfire into the remaining
students and the living teacher. He
stopped to load a new magazine into his
gun. While he did so, someone in the
room began begging for their life. As
soon as he popped the magazine in, he
started firing indiscriminately around
the room once more. Mr. Reyes hearing
this from the other room felt that they
all must be dead now. Salvador then
called out asking if anyone needed help.
When one little boy stood up, he pulled
up his gun and shot him dead that
instant. 2 minutes after the massacre in
the classrooms began, three UPD officers
with two rivals entered into the school
from the same entrance that Salvador had
used. Shortly after, the UCISD chief,
Pete Ardodondo, along with another UCISD
officer and two UPD officers, came in
through the south entrance. One officer
remembered seeing smoke and fog, noting
that both of the classrooms were dark.
Another remembered the smell of
gunpowder hanging in the air, saying
that the halls looked cloudy. Chief
Ardondo noticed shell casings all over
the ground. All of them could still hear
Salvador continuing to execute children inside.
inside.
After feeling that he had killed every
single person in room 112, Salvador made
his way back into 111. At this point, he
had fired well over a hundred rounds
into all of the students and teachers inside.
inside.
At that same time, two of the little
girls in room 112, 11-year-old Mia Serio
and Khloe Torres, grabbed a phone off of
their dead teacher, Irma Garcia, and
started to call 911. They begged for
them to please send an officer into the
classroom, telling them what was
happening and saying that they were
still in danger.
What the hurricane?
>> No, there's a school shooting.
>> Okay. Yes, ma'am. I have multiple units
there. Are you with officer? Are you
barricaded somewhere?
>> I'm in classroom. What's the classroom?
102 102. >> 112.
>> 112.
>> 112. 112. Yes, ma'am.
>> What's your name, ma'am?
>> Chloe. Please help me. There's a lot of
dead bodies.
>> Please. 112.
>> Yes, ma'am. Please seek help.
>> Be quiet.
>> I am on tell everybody because I don't
know. Nobody wasn't even me.
>> I know how to handle these situations my
Send help from my teachers. I feel
alive, but they sh
Mia then laid on the ground right on top
of one of her dead friends and smeared
their blood all over her face. This was
done in order so that she herself could
play dead more convincingly. She then
lied there and waited for help and
waited and waited. Sergeant Coronado
went with a few other officers and Chief
Ardondo towards a 111 and 112. He didn't
hear any more gunshots taking place as
the whole building went quiet. As he
approached, he could see clear bullet
holes in the sheetrock. On his body cam
footage, another officer could be heard
saying, "It's an AR." showing that they
certainly understood the kind of gun
they were dealing with. Another officer,
Officer Paige, stopped near the room as
well. Throughout this time, Mr. Reyes
could hear the police out in the
hallways, praying that they were about
to make their way inside. Each and every
time he heard them, they never came in.
Eventually, he heard the police call
into the classroom, asking Salvador to
come out and talk, saying that they
didn't want to hurt anyone. Ava Morelis,
the other teacher in room 112, called
her husband, Ruben Ruiz, a Yuvaldi
Consolidated Independent School District
officer who was on scene to tell him
that she was inside the classroom and
would die if she didn't get help. Reuben
tried to push forward through the
hallway, but he was detained by other
officers who took his gun from him and
dragged him off the scene. Ava would die
from her wounds after. It was around
this point that the officers got a
report that another woman had been shot
nearby. This call was about Salvador's
grandmother, who had gotten help from
her neighbors. One officer and some EMTs
made their way out to the scene. While
Sally could walk, she was obviously in
very bad shape. They put her into a
stretcher and loaded her into an
ambulance. Salvador's own uncle came to
call 911, knowing that it must be his
nephew who was shooting.
>> He's my nephew, man. He's He's the
shooter. I was wondering maybe he could
he could listen to me [music] because he
does listen to me. Do you know of any
change in his behavior over the last
couple of days?
>> No. No. No. Nothing. Nothing. He just
said that he said that he was mad and
that his grandma sadly was um just
bugging him too much.
>> Soon after, one of his cousins called as
well, fearing that he might try to come
to her house and shoot her too.
>> The active shooter, he's my cousin, and
I don't I don't want him to come to my house.
house.
As they approached the room, they tried
to move as quietly as possible. From the
north side, Lieutenant Martinez decided
to peek into the inlet area between the
rooms. As he did so, Salvador fired at
him from inside the classroom. Some
fragments of the wall grazed the top of
his head, causing him to start bleeding.
Another officer, Sergeant Canales, was
similarly hit by material that scratched
his ear. In the panic, none of the
officers shot back towards Salvador. The
officers then retreated from the
classrooms and back down the hallway. It
was here that another critical mistake
would be made. Chief Ardodondo, feeling
that the shooter was cornered, decided
not to classify the ongoing case as an
active shooter case. Instead, he
classified it as a barricaded subject
case. This was significant because it
meant that they felt their shooter was
contained. So, instead of actually
entering into the classrooms and trying
to save some of the kids who were still
alive, they were going to leave Salvador
in there with them until they could
successfully negotiate him out. For the
time being, all they would focus on was
evacuating the rest of the building
little by little while they left the
kids and the teachers to bleed out. Once
the police began to cordon off the
outside of the school, parents began
begging the police to go in there and
try to save their kids. On video, when
being asked why the police weren't going
in to rescue the children, one officer
responded by screaming, "Because I'm
having to deal with you." When the
police refused to go in, some parents
tried to enter into the building
themselves. [snorts]
Officers started to shove the parents
back and even tackled them to the
ground. They told them that they would
be tased if they tried to enter the
building any further. Many videos were
taken of these altercations and uploaded
to the internet. At one point, the
police pepper-sprayed one parent trying
to get into the building. Another mom
was thrown into handcuffs when she tried
to enter. When they released her from
the cuffs, she was able to jump the
fence, get to the school, and take her
kids before the police found her. While
you may think that their concern was to
keep parents from entering into the
school and being shot, their tyranny
spread to other areas as well. Some
children who evacuated were sitting in a
bus parked alongside the street. One
parent was full-on tazed when they tried
to get their kid from the bus to take
them home. It was then at 11:42 that the
school finally announced a lockdown,
saying that it was due to quote gunshots
in the area, not even specifying a
shooting at the school. They made this
announcement on Facebook of all things.
In the announcement, they even lied and
said that the students and staff were
safe inside the building. Then, and only
then, a substantial amount of students
began to be evacuated.
With Salvador now in the room with
nothing to do, he set his sights on Mr.
Reyes, who he suspected might still be
alive. While waiting on the police, he
decided to begin torturing him. First,
he picked up a thermos of cold water and
poured it all down his back. Mr. Rehea
said that he was actually lucky that he
was in as bad of shape as he was. Since
he couldn't move and was barely even
breathing, it meant he showed no
reaction. He couldn't have reacted if he
tried. Salvador told him, "You're going
to die and no one's going to miss you.
>> Still convinced that Mr. Reyes was
alive. Salvador then dipped his hand in
a pool of his own blood and began to
splash it into his face repeatedly.
Getting no reaction, he splashed more
and more of it. At that point, Mr.
Reyes's cell phone, still on his desk,
started ringing. Salvador walked back
over to the desk and picked up the
phone. He then took the still ringing
phone and dropped it onto Mr. Reyes's
back, almost as if giving it to him. He
then picked up the phone and dropped it
on him again about four more times. At
that point, Mr. Rehea said that he
wished he would have just shot the phone
to stop all the noise. He said that this
all went on for a painfully long period
of time before the police outside began
to call out to Salvador again. >> Sir, this isn't with the school district
>> Sir, this isn't with the school district police. Can you please put your firearms
police. Can you please put your firearms down? You don't want anyone else hurt,
down? You don't want anyone else hurt, sir.
>> At that point, Mr. Reyes said that all Salvador did was clear his throat. Then,
Salvador did was clear his throat. Then, convinced that Mr. Reus was alive after
convinced that Mr. Reus was alive after all. He shot him once more in the back.
all. He shot him once more in the back. Even still, he didn't lose
Even still, he didn't lose consciousness. While everything was a
consciousness. While everything was a blur, he would be awake from then on
blur, he would be awake from then on out.
out. Chief Ardondo called the UPD landline,
Chief Ardondo called the UPD landline, telling them, "We have him in the room.
telling them, "We have him in the room. He's got an AR-15. He's shot a lot. We
He's got an AR-15. He's shot a lot. We don't have firepower right now. It's all
don't have firepower right now. It's all pistols. I don't have a radio. I need
pistols. I don't have a radio. I need you to bring a radio for me and give my
you to bring a radio for me and give my radio for me. I need to get one rifle.
radio for me. I need to get one rifle. I'm trying to set him up. I need this
I'm trying to set him up. I need this building surrounded with as many AR-15s
building surrounded with as many AR-15s as possible. He then requested a swap
as possible. He then requested a swap team to the school. Another UPD officer
team to the school. Another UPD officer calling a dispatcher said, "We believe
calling a dispatcher said, "We believe that he is barricaded in one of the
that he is barricaded in one of the offices. There's still a shooting." When
offices. There's still a shooting." When he was asked if the door was locked or
he was asked if the door was locked or anything like that, he responded, "I am
anything like that, he responded, "I am not sure, but we have a halagan to break
not sure, but we have a halagan to break it." A halagan is a crowbar-like tool
it." A halagan is a crowbar-like tool that can be used to pry open a door.
that can be used to pry open a door. Salvador continued to linger around the
Salvador continued to linger around the classroom. From time to time, he would
classroom. From time to time, he would fire his gun again, likely at any
fire his gun again, likely at any students he suspected might still be
students he suspected might still be alive. Mr. Reyes would not be the only
alive. Mr. Reyes would not be the only one inside the classroom that Salvador
one inside the classroom that Salvador would come to torture out of boredom.
would come to torture out of boredom. While waiting for the police to come
While waiting for the police to come inside, he went around the rooms finding
inside, he went around the rooms finding any kids who appeared to be alive. He
any kids who appeared to be alive. He would spit on them, curse at them, and
would spit on them, curse at them, and even stomp on their heads and limbs to
even stomp on their heads and limbs to the point of leaving impressions with
the point of leaving impressions with his shoes.
his shoes. A United States Border Patrol tactical
A United States Border Patrol tactical unit rushed out to the scene after
unit rushed out to the scene after getting a message from his wife who had
getting a message from his wife who had been a teacher there. He was actually at
been a teacher there. He was actually at a barber shop getting a shotgun that his
a barber shop getting a shotgun that his barber lent to him and rushed out to the
barber lent to him and rushed out to the scene. He helped to evacuate some of the
scene. He helped to evacuate some of the children. A US Marshall on the scene was
children. A US Marshall on the scene was able to supply a ballistic shield. Other
able to supply a ballistic shield. Other border patrol agents arrived as well,
border patrol agents arrived as well, although they didn't bring the breaching
although they didn't bring the breaching tools. Little did they know the lock to
tools. Little did they know the lock to 111 was broken anyway, and Salvador
111 was broken anyway, and Salvador couldn't have locked it if he tried.
couldn't have locked it if he tried. They didn't try to simply open the door.
They didn't try to simply open the door. More shields were brought into the
More shields were brought into the school. However, they would have been
school. However, they would have been useless if they were put to use as only
useless if they were put to use as only one of them was graded for rifles. Most
one of them was graded for rifles. Most of the lowranking officers on scene
of the lowranking officers on scene began to grow frustrated at the lack of
began to grow frustrated at the lack of action, whispering to each other that
action, whispering to each other that they needed to get inside the classroom
they needed to get inside the classroom as soon as possible.
as soon as possible. I know [laughter] in there.
I know [laughter] in there. >> I know.
>> Hey man, you want to let the kids out? >> Salvador through the door, yelled at the
>> Salvador through the door, yelled at the officers. Don't make me come out first
officers. Don't make me come out first and make it complicated.
>> Salvador then yelled, "Hey, you little [ __ ] bitch." ated a student. The
[ __ ] bitch." ated a student. The student cried for help.
>> Salvador then taunted him with, "You're alive, but you're almost dead. You're
alive, but you're almost dead. You're going to die, little boy."
The police could clearly hear this from the hallway, as it is even audible in
the hallway, as it is even audible in the footage. They still didn't
the footage. They still didn't intervene.
intervene. Soon after, Salvador yelled to the cops,
Soon after, Salvador yelled to the cops, "If you don't come in, I'm going to kill
"If you don't come in, I'm going to kill the bitch." [laughter]
>> Quickly, quickly open the window. >> He then continued to taunt the little
>> He then continued to taunt the little kids inside.
>> Because of what had happened to their grandmother, Salvador's cousin knew
grandmother, Salvador's cousin knew exactly who the school shooter was. As
exactly who the school shooter was. As soon as she heard about it, she made her
soon as she heard about it, she made her way out to the scene. She told the
way out to the scene. She told the police who the shooter was and begged
police who the shooter was and begged for them to kill him already. She
for them to kill him already. She revealed that her son, Salvador's young
revealed that her son, Salvador's young cousin, who he questioned about the
cousin, who he questioned about the schedules, was inside the building.
schedules, was inside the building. >> He's being
>> He's being she's being transported to San Antonio.
she's being transported to San Antonio. I need you to please help us because
I need you to please help us because this guy
this guy [ __ ] take him out. That's my stupid
[ __ ] take him out. That's my stupid ass nephew.
ass nephew. >> [ __ ] kill him.
>> [ __ ] kill him. >> Help us. Help us.
>> Help us. Help us. He's doing it because his mom and every
>> At 12:10, the first group of US marshals arrived on the scene to assist, having
arrived on the scene to assist, having come from 70 mi away. Soon after, a DPS
come from 70 mi away. Soon after, a DPS special agent said, "If there's kids in
special agent said, "If there's kids in there, we need to go in there."
there, we need to go in there." Uncaring, another officer responded
Uncaring, another officer responded with, "Whoever is in charge will
with, "Whoever is in charge will determine that." Anyone who suggested
determine that." Anyone who suggested that they stormed the room was quickly
that they stormed the room was quickly waved off the scene. The UCISD chief,
waved off the scene. The UCISD chief, Pedro Ardodondo, was the de facto man in
Pedro Ardodondo, was the de facto man in charge on the scene, but he was doing
charge on the scene, but he was doing very little to actually get to Salvador.
very little to actually get to Salvador. It has been speculated that Arrodondo
It has been speculated that Arrodondo may have assumed that all the children
may have assumed that all the children inside were already dead and instead
inside were already dead and instead wanted to focus on gathering more
wanted to focus on gathering more equipment before performing a breach of
equipment before performing a breach of the room. It wasn't long before the
the room. It wasn't long before the little girls in classroom 112 called 911
little girls in classroom 112 called 911 again. They informed them that they were
again. They informed them that they were still very much in danger.
>> They're inside of the building. Okay, you need to stay quiet. Okay,
you need to stay quiet. Okay, >> they're inside the building. We just
>> they're inside the building. We just need to stay quiet.
need to stay quiet. >> The police still didn't enter into the
>> The police still didn't enter into the room. Lieutenant Mariano Parus, the
room. Lieutenant Mariano Parus, the UPD's acting chief, was told about the
UPD's acting chief, was told about the call to 911, saying that the room was
call to 911, saying that the room was full of victims and many were still
full of victims and many were still alive. Child is like
alive. Child is like in a room full of victims. Full of
in a room full of victims. Full of victims.
victims. >> Full of victims. Child call 911.
>> The room is full of victims. Child 911 call.
call. >> He then entered into the school and
>> He then entered into the school and calmly told the other officers, "A child
calmly told the other officers, "A child just called that they have victims in
just called that they have victims in there." Before walking outside again.
there." Before walking outside again. >> A child just called that they'd have
>> A child just called that they'd have victims in there. The girls then called
victims in there. The girls then called again for a third time, once again
again for a third time, once again begging for help and saying that a lot
begging for help and saying that a lot of people inside were dead. Aridondo was
of people inside were dead. Aridondo was more concerned with putting a sniper on
more concerned with putting a sniper on the roof of the school, wasting valuable
the roof of the school, wasting valuable time by instructing officers on how to
time by instructing officers on how to best do that. While he was doing so, the
best do that. While he was doing so, the girls called 911 a fourth time, saying
girls called 911 a fourth time, saying that they had found eight to nine
that they had found eight to nine students that were still alive and could
students that were still alive and could be saved. Again, they were ignored.
be saved. Again, they were ignored. Lieutenant Mariano Parus was once again
Lieutenant Mariano Parus was once again informed of the call. He walked back
informed of the call. He walked back into the building, mentioned it briefly,
into the building, mentioned it briefly, and then went back outside to call
and then went back outside to call himself to hear the information.
himself to hear the information. >> Okay. In the call that you got in from
>> Okay. In the call that you got in from the uh from the one of the students,
the uh from the one of the students, what was what did they say?
what was what did they say? >> Okay. Chloe is going to be Chloe. Uh
>> Okay. Chloe is going to be Chloe. Uh she's in group 112.
she's in group 112. Nine students that are still alive.
>> So, how many are still alive now? Um, eight to nine are still alive. She's not
eight to nine are still alive. She's not too sure.
too sure. >> Yeah. How many more?
>> Yeah. How many more? >> She's not too sure how many are actually
>> She's not too sure how many are actually possibly.
possibly. We're trying to make sure.
We're trying to make sure. >> Okay.
>> Okay. >> After ending with that, okay, thanks. He
>> After ending with that, okay, thanks. He walked back inside and informed some of
walked back inside and informed some of the other officers about it.
>> However, when he then talked to a Texas Ranger, he neglected to mention the
Ranger, he neglected to mention the living children in the room. He then
living children in the room. He then left the school and didn't come back
left the school and didn't come back again for whatever reason. When Pete
again for whatever reason. When Pete Ardodondo heard of the calls from the
Ardodondo heard of the calls from the students inside classroom 112, he didn't
students inside classroom 112, he didn't change the situation from a barricaded
change the situation from a barricaded suspect case into an active shooting
suspect case into an active shooting case. In fact, there is more evidence
case. In fact, there is more evidence that he tried to hide that information.
that he tried to hide that information. Some officers were seen on video being
Some officers were seen on video being told that there were no children inside
told that there were no children inside the classrooms at all.
the classrooms at all. >> Do we have anyone that's hit on this
>> Do we have anyone that's hit on this side?
side? >> Huh?
>> Huh? >> Any other kids or anyone hit?
>> Any other kids or anyone hit? >> No, we don't know anything about that.
>> No, we don't know anything about that. No kids are
No kids are Who's asking for the pull?
Who's asking for the pull? >> Everything is everything's closed. Like
>> Everything is everything's closed. Like the the the kids are not in there.
the the the kids are not in there. >> Can we check with the office to be sure
>> Can we check with the office to be sure if anyone
>> now at 12:17, roughly 45 minutes after the massacre in the classrooms began.
the massacre in the classrooms began. The school reported once again over
The school reported once again over Facebook that there was an active
Facebook that there was an active shooter on campus and that the
shooter on campus and that the authorities were on scene. After
authorities were on scene. After Arrodondo was heard outside screaming to
Arrodondo was heard outside screaming to officers, "Tell them to [ __ ] wait. No
officers, "Tell them to [ __ ] wait. No one comes in, likely referring to the
one comes in, likely referring to the concerned parents. Pete Ardodondo would
concerned parents. Pete Ardodondo would start to spend most of the rest of his
start to spend most of the rest of his time in the hallway trying to negotiate
time in the hallway trying to negotiate with Salvador inside the classroom. Each
with Salvador inside the classroom. Each and every time, he would get no
and every time, he would get no response. Still, he kept calling out to
response. Still, he kept calling out to him over and over and over again,
him over and over and over again, wasting at least 30 minutes on this
wasting at least 30 minutes on this tactic despite getting zero results.
tactic despite getting zero results. >> Mr. Ramos, can you hear us? Mr. Ramos,
>> Mr. Ramos, can you hear us? Mr. Ramos, please respond.
>> Please don't hurt anyone. These are innocent children.
innocent children. Please put your firearm down. We don't
Please put your firearm down. We don't want anybody else hurt. Seenor Ramos.
want anybody else hurt. Seenor Ramos. Mr. Ramos. Mr. Ramos. Mr. Ramos. Mr.
Mr. Ramos. Mr. Ramos. Mr. Ramos. Mr. Ramos. Mr. Ramos. Mr. Ramos.
Ramos. Mr. Ramos. Mr. Ramos. >> Minutes later at 12:21, Salvador fired
>> Minutes later at 12:21, Salvador fired four more shots inside one of the
four more shots inside one of the classrooms.
A couple of minutes later, Arodondo, either lying or very uninformed of the
either lying or very uninformed of the situation, said, "We've lost two kids.
situation, said, "We've lost two kids. The walls are thin. If he starts
The walls are thin. If he starts shooting, we're going to lose more kids.
shooting, we're going to lose more kids. I hate to say, we have to put those to
I hate to say, we have to put those to the side right now." He began to try and
the side right now." He began to try and speak to Salvador through the door
speak to Salvador through the door again, asking him to surrender, and
again, asking him to surrender, and again, he got no response. He tried
again, he got no response. He tried again a few minutes later, again, to be
again a few minutes later, again, to be ignored. Salvador shot several times
ignored. Salvador shot several times again at children he believed were alive
again at children he believed were alive in 111. He then shouted to the police,
in 111. He then shouted to the police, "Hey, come and get him."
"Hey, come and get him." >> A minute later, he yelled, "Hey, come
>> A minute later, he yelled, "Hey, come inside, bitch." Followed by something
inside, bitch." Followed by something inaudible.
>> It's highly likely that Salvador was planning to die from the police's
planning to die from the police's gunfire, much like many other mass
gunfire, much like many other mass shooters plan. if he were to negotiate,
shooters plan. if he were to negotiate, he wouldn't get that from them. He
he wouldn't get that from them. He preferred to sit and wait for them to
preferred to sit and wait for them to barge into the room and go out in a
barge into the room and go out in a blaze of gunfire. When that didn't
blaze of gunfire. When that didn't happen, he began to grow frustrated,
happen, he began to grow frustrated, never responding to the negotiation, but
never responding to the negotiation, but shouting taunts at them from time to
shouting taunts at them from time to time. Even he couldn't seem to
time. Even he couldn't seem to understand why they weren't coming in to
understand why they weren't coming in to get the kids. Arrodondo was growing
get the kids. Arrodondo was growing annoyed as well. He knew that he had dug
annoyed as well. He knew that he had dug his grave with this one. He had wasted a
his grave with this one. He had wasted a lot of valuable time, saved no children,
lot of valuable time, saved no children, and still hadn't even gotten into the
and still hadn't even gotten into the room. He began to tell other officers,
room. He began to tell other officers, "People are going to ask why we're
"People are going to ask why we're taking so long. We're trying to preserve
taking so long. We're trying to preserve the rest of the life. There is a window
the rest of the life. There is a window over there. Obviously, the door is
over there. Obviously, the door is probably going to be locked. That is the
probably going to be locked. That is the nature of this place. I'm going to get
nature of this place. I'm going to get some more keys to test." Starting at
some more keys to test." Starting at 12:30, more officers entered into the
12:30, more officers entered into the south door and walked past Chief Ardondo
south door and walked past Chief Ardondo and Sergeant Coronado, stacking up on
and Sergeant Coronado, stacking up on the sides of 111 and 112 themselves,
the sides of 111 and 112 themselves, waiting to breach the rooms. After five
waiting to breach the rooms. After five more minutes, the H Halligan tool that
more minutes, the H Halligan tool that they wanted but didn't need finally
they wanted but didn't need finally arrived. The little girls in 112 called
arrived. The little girls in 112 called 911 once again, saying that Salvador had
911 once again, saying that Salvador had fired a shot again. They were told to
fired a shot again. They were told to stay on the line and be quiet. 6 minutes
stay on the line and be quiet. 6 minutes later, after waiting around, Ardondo
later, after waiting around, Ardondo said, "Just so you understand, we think
said, "Just so you understand, we think there are some injuries in there." And
there are some injuries in there." And so, you know what we did? We cleared off
so, you know what we did? We cleared off the rest of the building so we wouldn't
the rest of the building so we wouldn't have any more besides what's already in
have any more besides what's already in there. Obviously, this was while the
there. Obviously, this was while the girls in 112 were begging for the
girls in 112 were begging for the dispatcher to send the police inside.
dispatcher to send the police inside. They said that they could clearly hear
They said that they could clearly hear them outside talking. Orodondo didn't
them outside talking. Orodondo didn't seem to be so willing to enter. He told
seem to be so willing to enter. He told his officers, "If y'all are ready to do
his officers, "If y'all are ready to do it, you do it, but you should distract
it, you do it, but you should distract him out that window." As the girls once
him out that window." As the girls once again beg for the police to come inside,
again beg for the police to come inside, the DPS captain Joel Bettincourt on
the DPS captain Joel Bettincourt on police radio gave a command for the
police radio gave a command for the breachers to wait, saying, "The team
breachers to wait, saying, "The team that's going to make the breach needs to
that's going to make the breach needs to stand by. The team that's going to
stand by. The team that's going to breach needs to stand by. Another 15
breach needs to stand by. Another 15 minutes later, at 12:50, some of the
minutes later, at 12:50, some of the Border Patrol officers got a janitor's
Border Patrol officers got a janitor's key to enter into room 111. They then
key to enter into room 111. They then turn the key in the unlocked door,
turn the key in the unlocked door, waiting to go inside. The Border Patrol
waiting to go inside. The Border Patrol had decided to finally make their way in
had decided to finally make their way in regardless of what Aridondo wanted.
regardless of what Aridondo wanted. Commander Guerrero had another agent
Commander Guerrero had another agent give him cover with the one rifle-graded
give him cover with the one rifle-graded riot shield and entered into the room
riot shield and entered into the room with his gun drawn. Those two, along
with his gun drawn. Those two, along with two others, entered into the
with two others, entered into the classroom. That was when Salvador, who
classroom. That was when Salvador, who had been hiding in the closet, kicked
had been hiding in the closet, kicked open the door with his gun drawn and
open the door with his gun drawn and began to fire at the officers. The
began to fire at the officers. The officers fired back, finally killing
officers fired back, finally killing Salvador and ending the rampage.
The police began to frantically enter into the room and started taking some
into the room and started taking some students out, unsure of who was alive
students out, unsure of who was alive and who wasn't. The scene was so grizzly
and who wasn't. The scene was so grizzly that many of the police officers ran
that many of the police officers ran outside to vomit. If it tells you
outside to vomit. If it tells you anything as to how bad the scene was,
anything as to how bad the scene was, officers were heard on body cam footage
officers were heard on body cam footage warning the others to avoid stepping on
warning the others to avoid stepping on skull fragments littered throughout the
skull fragments littered throughout the classrooms. Some students at the school
classrooms. Some students at the school have said in the years since that limbs
have said in the years since that limbs were severed by the shots as well as
were severed by the shots as well as heads. Most of the police had never seen
heads. Most of the police had never seen anything like that in their entire
anything like that in their entire lives, especially when it came to such
lives, especially when it came to such young victims. Nevertheless, there were
young victims. Nevertheless, there were still some inside that could be saved.
still some inside that could be saved. Blood coated the hallways as they rushed
Blood coated the hallways as they rushed to get them outside. The scene was chaos
to get them outside. The scene was chaos as police officers were ordered to shut
as police officers were ordered to shut up so that they could listen for
up so that they could listen for students voices, but they continued to
students voices, but they continued to shout over each other. Stretchers were
shout over each other. Stretchers were wheeled into the rooms and students were
wheeled into the rooms and students were loaded onto them. However, it was found
loaded onto them. However, it was found that the majority of them were dead,
that the majority of them were dead, including every single student in room
including every single student in room 111.
111. 19 students and two teachers were killed
19 students and two teachers were killed in the shooting. Two of them were
in the shooting. Two of them were 9-year-olds, Jacqueline Jaylen Kazeres
9-year-olds, Jacqueline Jaylen Kazeres and Elelliana Ama Garcia. The majority
and Elelliana Ama Garcia. The majority of them were 10-year-olds. [music] Navia
of them were 10-year-olds. [music] Navia Alyssa Bravo, McKenna Lee Lrod, Jose
Alyssa Bravo, McKenna Lee Lrod, Jose Manuel Flores Jr. Uzziah Sergio Garcia,
Manuel Flores Jr. Uzziah Sergio Garcia, Amiri Joe Garza, Xavier James Lopez,
Amiri Joe Garza, Xavier James Lopez, Jacece Carmelo Louis, Tess Marie Mata,
Jacece Carmelo Louis, Tess Marie Mata, Althia Haven Ramirez, Annabelle
