YouTube Transcript:
The Horrific School Shooting and the Worst Police Response

Skip watching entire videos - get the full transcript, search for keywords, and copy with one click.

Video Transcript

Video Summary

Summary

Core Theme

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.

Mind Map

Click to expand

Click to explore the full interactive mind map • Zoom, pan, and navigate

[music]

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

Althia Haven Ramirez, Annabelle Guadalupe Rodriguez, [music] Maitate

Guadalupe Rodriguez, [music] Maitate Ulana Rodriguez, Alexandria Nia Rubio,

Ulana Rodriguez, Alexandria Nia Rubio, Jayla Nicole Silguero, Elelliana Cruz

Jayla Nicole Silguero, Elelliana Cruz Torres, and Roelio Fernandez Torres. Two

Torres, and Roelio Fernandez Torres. Two of them were 11year-olds, Miranda Gail

of them were 11year-olds, Miranda Gail Matthysse and Leila Marie Salazar. And

Matthysse and Leila Marie Salazar. And finally, two teachers had lost their

finally, two teachers had lost their lives in room 112. 48-year-old Irma

lives in room 112. 48-year-old Irma Linda Garcia and 44year-old Ava Murz.

Linda Garcia and 44year-old Ava Murz. 18 people were injured, including 14

18 people were injured, including 14 kids, Mr. Reyes, Salvador's grandma

kids, Mr. Reyes, Salvador's grandma Sally, and the two police officers that

Sally, and the two police officers that were grazed in the gunfire. However,

were grazed in the gunfire. However, several of the injured wouldn't live

several of the injured wouldn't live much longer, dying on route to the

much longer, dying on route to the hospital. Had they had been rescued

hospital. Had they had been rescued earlier, there was a chance that they

earlier, there was a chance that they would have survived. They had lived for

would have survived. They had lived for 70 minutes with no care. After all, that

70 minutes with no care. After all, that extra 70 minutes in intensive care very

extra 70 minutes in intensive care very well could have saved them. The

well could have saved them. The surviving kids from room 112 were put on

surviving kids from room 112 were put on a bus in order to regroup with their

a bus in order to regroup with their families. This included the two girls

families. This included the two girls who had been calling the police along

who had been calling the police along with at least one other [music] boy. In

with at least one other [music] boy. In the end, 11 kids and three others were

the end, 11 kids and three others were admitted into the hospital for emergency

admitted into the hospital for emergency care. It was found that a further two

care. It was found that a further two had died during their arrival. Some of

had died during their arrival. Some of them, including Salvador's grandma, who

them, including Salvador's grandma, who was airlifted, were taken to the

was airlifted, were taken to the University Hospital in San Antonio. At 2

University Hospital in San Antonio. At 2 p.m., parents of the children at the

p.m., parents of the children at the school were notified that they could now

school were notified that they could now come pick up their kids. Given that the

come pick up their kids. Given that the bus services were cancelled, parents

bus services were cancelled, parents from other schools were asked to do the

from other schools were asked to do the same as well. It was announced that the

same as well. It was announced that the school term for that year was officially

school term for that year was officially over, with only a few days having

over, with only a few days having remained anyway. Graduation ceremonies

remained anyway. Graduation ceremonies would be cancelled as well. Shortly

would be cancelled as well. Shortly after, the Yuvaldi Memorial Hospital

after, the Yuvaldi Memorial Hospital held an emergency blood drive. The South

held an emergency blood drive. The South Texas Blood and Tissue Center told the

Texas Blood and Tissue Center told the public that they would urgently need

public that they would urgently need donations after the shooting. They sent

donations after the shooting. They sent about 15 units of blood to Ualdi on a

about 15 units of blood to Ualdi on a helicopter to use in the hospitals

helicopter to use in the hospitals there. It wasn't long before 2,000

there. It wasn't long before 2,000 people had donated blood. In total, 315

people had donated blood. In total, 315 rounds were found inside of the school.

rounds were found inside of the school. 140 of them were spent casings while 173

140 of them were spent casings while 173 others were live. 922 more rounds were

others were live. 922 more rounds were found outside the building, most likely

found outside the building, most likely in the rest of Salvador's magazines that

in the rest of Salvador's magazines that he left behind in the truck. Some of the

he left behind in the truck. Some of the rounds that Salvador fired weren't even

rounds that Salvador fired weren't even found, with it being determined that he

found, with it being determined that he fired 164 times in total. The police had

fired 164 times in total. The police had fired 35 rounds themselves in total,

fired 35 rounds themselves in total, eight in the hallway and 27 in the

eight in the hallway and 27 in the classroom where Salvador was killed.

classroom where Salvador was killed. Many of the students who died in 111 and

Many of the students who died in 111 and 112 were put into body bags and left in

112 were put into body bags and left in the hallway of the school. That is where

the hallway of the school. That is where they would remain for the night. The

they would remain for the night. The crime scene photo of the hallways of the

crime scene photo of the hallways of the elementary school filled with body bags

elementary school filled with body bags in the dead of night has haunted those

in the dead of night has haunted those who have seen it. Some parents would

who have seen it. Some parents would have to wait until late at night and

have to wait until late at night and into the early hours of the morning for

into the early hours of the morning for the final confirmation of their

the final confirmation of their children's deaths.

>> Immediately following the Rob Elementary School shooting, the Yuvaldi

School shooting, the Yuvaldi Consolidated Independent School District

Consolidated Independent School District [music] Police Department and the

[music] Police Department and the Yuvaldi Police Department came to be

Yuvaldi Police Department came to be criticized heavily for their response to

criticized heavily for their response to the incident.

the incident. As controversy broiled, Salvador Ramos's

As controversy broiled, Salvador Ramos's remains were going to be held by the

remains were going to be held by the Uvaldi County Coroner for weeks. All of

Uvaldi County Coroner for weeks. All of the local funeral homes refused to have

the local funeral homes refused to have any sort of service for him out of both

any sort of service for him out of both disgust and respect for the victims.

disgust and respect for the victims. Eventually, he was cremated by Cast

Eventually, he was cremated by Cast Ridge Mortuary in Crystal City. He was

Ridge Mortuary in Crystal City. He was buried in a cemetery under a fake name,

buried in a cemetery under a fake name, that being Lonnie, with no date of death

that being Lonnie, with no date of death in hopes of deterring vandalism.

in hopes of deterring vandalism. Salvador's mom came to speak to a

Salvador's mom came to speak to a Mexican TV station, saying that she had

Mexican TV station, saying that she had no explanation as to why her son did

no explanation as to why her son did what he did. She stirred up controversy

what he did. She stirred up controversy even further by strangely stating, "He

even further by strangely stating, "He had his reasons for doing what he did."

had his reasons for doing what he did." Telling viewers, "Please don't judge

Telling viewers, "Please don't judge him." She added, "I only want the

him." She added, "I only want the innocent children who died to forgive

innocent children who died to forgive me." She said that Salvador was not a

me." She said that Salvador was not a monster. While admitting he could be a

monster. While admitting he could be a bit aggressive, Salvador's father

bit aggressive, Salvador's father condemned the attack that much more,

condemned the attack that much more, taking a lot of the blame onto himself.

taking a lot of the blame onto himself. He said, "He should have just killed me,

He said, "He should have just killed me, you know, instead [music] of doing

you know, instead [music] of doing something like that."

something like that." A memorial had been created outside of

A memorial had been created outside of the school for the victims in the

the school for the victims in the attack. It was covered in balloons,

attack. It was covered in balloons, candles, and crosses. One local man made

candles, and crosses. One local man made 21 different crosses for each of the

21 different crosses for each of the victims, inscribed with their own names,

victims, inscribed with their own names, and set them up outside the school. A

and set them up outside the school. A lot of people came from outside the city

lot of people came from outside the city to contribute to the memorial and pay

to contribute to the memorial and pay their respects. [music]

their respects. [music] Many local businesses offered free

Many local businesses offered free headstones and funerals to the victims.

headstones and funerals to the victims. Even different food trucks and

Even different food trucks and restaurant owners sent food to those

restaurant owners sent food to those affected by the shooting as [music]

affected by the shooting as [music] well. It was announced by the UCISD

well. It was announced by the UCISD superintendent Hal Harold that Rob

superintendent Hal Harold that Rob Elementary School would never be

Elementary School would never be reopened. It was set to be demolished to

reopened. It was set to be demolished to avoid retraumatizing anyone related to

avoid retraumatizing anyone related to the shooting. A board meeting was held

the shooting. A board meeting was held and it was decided that the students and

and it was decided that the students and staff would move to a new campus. Mia

staff would move to a new campus. Mia Serio, the little girl who called the

Serio, the little girl who called the police at least five times while covered

police at least five times while covered in blood and pretending to be dead, was

in blood and pretending to be dead, was said to have been left extremely

said to have been left extremely traumatized. She was left unable to

traumatized. She was left unable to sleep with large patches of her hair

sleep with large patches of her hair falling out regularly. An online

falling out regularly. An online fundraiser was made to help pay for her

fundraiser was made to help pay for her therapy with a goal of $10,000. She

therapy with a goal of $10,000. She ended up receiving almost 20 times that

ended up receiving almost 20 times that with the fundraiser ending at $199,000.

with the fundraiser ending at $199,000. She was a little too afraid to talk on

She was a little too afraid to talk on camera at first, but expressed that she

camera at first, but expressed that she wanted to share her story so that others

wanted to share her story so that others could know the horror of what it's like

could know the horror of what it's like to live through a school shooting and

to live through a school shooting and hopefully to prevent more. Keep in mind

hopefully to prevent more. Keep in mind she was only 11 years old.

she was only 11 years old. >> Or things that you want different. What

>> Or things that you want different. What would it be? to have security.

would it be? to have security. >> Do you feel safe at school?

>> Do you feel safe at school? >> Why not?

>> Why not? >> Cuz I don't want it to happen again.

>> Cuz I don't want it to happen again. >> And you think it's going to happen

>> And you think it's going to happen again?

>> When Chief Lieutenant Mariano Pargas, who failed to mention the 911 calls from

who failed to mention the 911 calls from the classroom, was interviewed again

the classroom, was interviewed again after that information was known. He

after that information was known. He said that he couldn't remember the

said that he couldn't remember the calls. He instead claimed, "The last

calls. He instead claimed, "The last thing we thought was that the shooter

thing we thought was that the shooter had actually shot the kids. We thought

had actually shot the kids. We thought he had shot up in the air, broken the

he had shot up in the air, broken the lights. We had no idea what was behind

lights. We had no idea what was behind those doors.

those doors. But in a leaked call with the Texas

But in a leaked call with the Texas Rangers, he ended up letting it slip

Rangers, he ended up letting it slip that he very well knew the kids were

that he very well knew the kids were inside.

inside. >> The room was extremely dark and we

>> The room was extremely dark and we didn't know where he was or the kids

didn't know where he was or the kids were standing. They were by him or not

were standing. They were by him or not knowing what was behind the doors."

knowing what was behind the doors." Joey Garcia, the husband of one of the

Joey Garcia, the husband of one of the teachers who died in 112, Irma Garcia,

teachers who died in 112, Irma Garcia, died only 2 days after the shooting from

died only 2 days after the shooting from a heart attack while attending a

a heart attack while attending a memorial for the victims. His family

memorial for the victims. His family later stated that the heart attack was

later stated that the heart attack was due to the grief of losing his wife.

due to the grief of losing his wife. Their four children were left without

Their four children were left without parents. The UCISD created a fund for

parents. The UCISD created a fund for those kids and other victims. Soon

those kids and other victims. Soon after, an anonymous donor paid $175,000

after, an anonymous donor paid $175,000 to go to the funerals. Catholic

to go to the funerals. Catholic Extension, a nonprofit organization that

Extension, a nonprofit organization that tends to finance impoverished Catholics,

tends to finance impoverished Catholics, announced that it was giving 30 full

announced that it was giving 30 full scholarships for the students wounded in

scholarships for the students wounded in the attacks to attend a different school

the attacks to attend a different school in Yuvaldi.

in Yuvaldi. Soon after the massacre occurred, the

Soon after the massacre occurred, the FBI and the ATF began to assist the

FBI and the ATF began to assist the local police in their investigation.

local police in their investigation. They quickly grabbed Salvador's guns and

They quickly grabbed Salvador's guns and took them in for an analysis. Soon

took them in for an analysis. Soon after, the Texas Rangers began to assist

after, the Texas Rangers began to assist as well. The response by the police to

as well. The response by the police to the shooting was so abysmal that even

the shooting was so abysmal that even the United States Department of Justice

the United States Department of Justice announced that they would be reviewing

announced that they would be reviewing the law enforcement response at the

the law enforcement response at the request of the mayor of Yaldi himself,

request of the mayor of Yaldi himself, Don Mclofflin. In the beginning,

Don Mclofflin. In the beginning, misinformation about the massacre and

misinformation about the massacre and contradicting accounts between the

contradicting accounts between the different agencies who assisted in the

different agencies who assisted in the response were making the investigation

response were making the investigation very difficult. Some of them claimed

very difficult. Some of them claimed that Salvador used a handgun. Others

that Salvador used a handgun. Others correctly stated that it was a rifle.

correctly stated that it was a rifle. Some claimed that his body armor made it

Some claimed that his body armor made it even more dangerous when it came to be

even more dangerous when it came to be known that he had no body armor at all.

known that he had no body armor at all. Some claimed that an officer exchanged

Some claimed that an officer exchanged gunfire with him outside the school, but

gunfire with him outside the school, but then it came to be known that an officer

then it came to be known that an officer had asked for permission to fire, but no

had asked for permission to fire, but no gunfight took place. It was said that

gunfight took place. It was said that this was a school resource officer, but

this was a school resource officer, but then it came to be clear that the school

then it came to be clear that the school resource officer had driven off to

resource officer had driven off to pursue a teacher. It was an absolute

pursue a teacher. It was an absolute mess. At first, the Texas Department of

mess. At first, the Texas Department of Safety or DPS Director Steve McRaw said

Safety or DPS Director Steve McRaw said that the police engaged immediately. He

that the police engaged immediately. He said they contained the gunman in the

said they contained the gunman in the classroom and put the tactical stack

classroom and put the tactical stack together in a very orderly way and

together in a very orderly way and breached. However, he soon changed his

breached. However, he soon changed his story to add that they were forced to

story to add that they were forced to delay the response because they needed

delay the response because they needed specialty equipment, armor, snipers, and

specialty equipment, armor, snipers, and negotiators. The DPS even blamed a

negotiators. The DPS even blamed a teacher for letting Salvador in, saying

teacher for letting Salvador in, saying that she had propped open the door. This

that she had propped open the door. This was not true as the reason he got in was

was not true as the reason he got in was due to the fact that the door could only

due to the fact that the door could only be locked from the outside. While the

be locked from the outside. While the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott,

governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, originally praised the police for their

originally praised the police for their response, it was before he knew all the

response, it was before he knew all the details. When he came to learn the

details. When he came to learn the facts, he quickly changed his tune and

facts, he quickly changed his tune and began to call for an investigation into

began to call for an investigation into the lack of initiative displayed by the

the lack of initiative displayed by the police. He said, "Bottom line would be,

police. He said, "Bottom line would be, why did they not choose the strategy

why did they not choose the strategy that would have been the best to get in

that would have been the best to get in there and to eliminate the killer and to

there and to eliminate the killer and to rescue the children?" The governor

rescue the children?" The governor announced that he had been misled and

announced that he had been misled and given inaccurate information, saying

given inaccurate information, saying that he was absolutely livid about it.

that he was absolutely livid about it. The mayor of Yuvaldi was especially

The mayor of Yuvaldi was especially frustrated at the governor's initial

frustrated at the governor's initial praise. 2 days after the massacre, at a

praise. 2 days after the massacre, at a press conference, a DPS official was

press conference, a DPS official was asked whether the police had made a

asked whether the police had made a critical error. He said that they didn't

critical error. He said that they didn't have enough information to answer

have enough information to answer definitively just yet. However, that

definitively just yet. However, that same day, another DPS officer defended

same day, another DPS officer defended the police, saying, "If they proceeded

the police, saying, "If they proceeded any further, not knowing where the

any further, not knowing where the suspect was at, they could have been

suspect was at, they could have been shot. They could have been killed and

shot. They could have been killed and the gunman would have had an opportunity

the gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school.

to kill other people inside that school. The Uvaldi PD police chief, Daniel

The Uvaldi PD police chief, Daniel Rodriguez, similarly defended his

Rodriguez, similarly defended his officers that same day, saying, "It is

officers that same day, saying, "It is important for our community to know that

important for our community to know that our officers responded within minutes."

our officers responded within minutes." The former police chief of Austin and

The former police chief of Austin and Houston, Art Aivado, disagreed,

Houston, Art Aivado, disagreed, tweeting, "We don't have all the

tweeting, "We don't have all the particulars right now, but when the

particulars right now, but when the gunfire is ringing out with the police

gunfire is ringing out with the police are trained, expected, and required to

are trained, expected, and required to engage, engage, engage. This is a moral

engage, engage, engage. This is a moral and ethical obligation.

and ethical obligation. However, it was only a day later that

However, it was only a day later that the DPS began to see how things really

the DPS began to see how things really went down. They acknowledged that

went down. They acknowledged that several bad actors had made errors that

several bad actors had made errors that without a doubt led to more bloodshed.

without a doubt led to more bloodshed. The director of the DPS, Steven C. McRe

The director of the DPS, Steven C. McRe said, "With the benefit of hindsight

said, "With the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course, it was

where I'm sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. It was the wrong

not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. Period."

decision. Period." On June 1st, ABC News, citing many

On June 1st, ABC News, citing many different sources, reported that the

different sources, reported that the Yuvaldi police and the UCISD police had

Yuvaldi police and the UCISD police had stopped cooperating with the

stopped cooperating with the investigation into their conduct.

investigation into their conduct. [music]

[music] This was because the DPS had now

This was because the DPS had now publicly made the claim that the police

publicly made the claim that the police had made an error by delaying entry into

had made an error by delaying entry into the classroom. They said that the UCISD

the classroom. They said that the UCISD chief, Pedro Pete Aridondo, quote,

chief, Pedro Pete Aridondo, quote, provided an initial interview, but has

provided an initial interview, but has not responded to a request for a

not responded to a request for a follow-up interview with the Texas

follow-up interview with the Texas Rangers that was made 2 days ago. That

Rangers that was made 2 days ago. That same day, Ardodondo denied the

same day, Ardodondo denied the accusations and told CNN that he was in

accusations and told CNN that he was in contact with the DPS every single day.

contact with the DPS every single day. [music] However, he said that he refused

[music] However, he said that he refused to say anymore because he didn't want to

to say anymore because he didn't want to talk about the case while the funerals

talk about the case while the funerals were still ongoing. He ended by saying,

were still ongoing. He ended by saying, "Whenever this is done and the families

"Whenever this is done and the families quit grieving, then we'll do that."

quit grieving, then we'll do that." Obviously, [music]

Obviously, [music] many took this as callous in and of

many took this as callous in and of itself, given that he assumed the

itself, given that he assumed the families would only grieve briefly and

families would only grieve briefly and then return to their normal lives after

then return to their normal lives after the funerals.

the funerals. Anuo Reyes, the teacher in room 111, had

Anuo Reyes, the teacher in room 111, had lost every single one of his students in

lost every single one of his students in the shooting. He himself had been shot

the shooting. He himself had been shot in the arm, back, and lung. From his

in the arm, back, and lung. From his hospital bed, he criticized the police,

hospital bed, he criticized the police, calling them cowards. He said, "They sit

calling them cowards. He said, "They sit there and did nothing for our community.

there and did nothing for our community. They took a long time to go in. After

They took a long time to go in. After everything, I get more angry because you

everything, I get more angry because you cops have a bulletproof vest. I have

cops have a bulletproof vest. I have nothing." He continued, "Nothing gets

nothing." He continued, "Nothing gets you ready for this. We trained our kids

you ready for this. We trained our kids to sit under the table, but we set them

to sit under the table, but we set them up like ducks. You can give us all the

up like ducks. You can give us all the training you want, but gun laws have to

training you want, but gun laws have to change. I will go anywhere to the end of

change. I will go anywhere to the end of the world to not let my students die in

the world to not let my students die in vain. I will go to the end of the world

vain. I will go to the end of the world to make sure things get changed.

to make sure things get changed. According to the DPS, before the border

According to the DPS, before the border patrol arrived on scene, the 19 officers

patrol arrived on scene, the 19 officers who were coming in and out of the school

who were coming in and out of the school made, in their own words, no effort to

made, in their own words, no effort to get inside the classroom where Salvador

get inside the classroom where Salvador was hiding. They said that this was

was hiding. They said that this was because of the false statements that

because of the false statements that Arrodondo made that Salvador was

Arrodondo made that Salvador was isolated alone in a classroom where he

isolated alone in a classroom where he could do no harm, i.e. the barricaded

could do no harm, i.e. the barricaded suspect response. Angeli Gomez, the mom

suspect response. Angeli Gomez, the mom who was handcuffed by the police and

who was handcuffed by the police and later jumped the fence to rescue her

later jumped the fence to rescue her kids, was interviewed by the media. She

kids, was interviewed by the media. She said that she was still on probation for

said that she was still on probation for charges she had received a decade before

charges she had received a decade before and that the police used this in order

and that the police used this in order to threaten her into not telling her

to threaten her into not telling her story. They told her that if she did,

story. They told her that if she did, they would press obstruction of justice

they would press obstruction of justice charges that would violate her probation

charges that would violate her probation and send her to jail. Soon after, her

and send her to jail. Soon after, her car was stopped in a traffic stop where

car was stopped in a traffic stop where a police officer accused her of

a police officer accused her of harboring illegal immigrants in her car.

harboring illegal immigrants in her car. After she noticed a cop parked at her

After she noticed a cop parked at her house for about 45 minutes, flashing its

house for about 45 minutes, flashing its lights to let her know that it was

lights to let her know that it was present. [music] However, her story came

present. [music] However, her story came to be doubted by some when the Uvaldi

to be doubted by some when the Uvaldi Leader News published an article saying

Leader News published an article saying that she was never handcuffed. Many

that she was never handcuffed. Many believe that this however was a story

believe that this however was a story pushed [music] by the police to the

pushed [music] by the police to the publication in order to ruin her

publication in order to ruin her reputation even further. She hasn't

reputation even further. She hasn't responded to the article herself.

responded to the article herself. Further controversy came about when the

Further controversy came about when the story of Ruben Ruiz hit the public, the

story of Ruben Ruiz hit the public, the man who had wanted to enter into the

man who had wanted to enter into the school to save one of the teachers, his

school to save one of the teachers, his wife, and was taken out of the building

wife, and was taken out of the building by the other officers. He was so

by the other officers. He was so disgusted himself that he resigned from

disgusted himself that he resigned from his position in the police department.

his position in the police department. [music] When the Yuvaldi Police

[music] When the Yuvaldi Police Department's acting chief, Lieutenant

Department's acting chief, Lieutenant Mariano Pargas, was interviewed after

Mariano Pargas, was interviewed after the shooting, he never mentioned knowing

the shooting, he never mentioned knowing that any of the students were inside the

that any of the students were inside the classrooms despite getting the calls

classrooms despite getting the calls themselves. Still, he actually took

themselves. Still, he actually took credit for wanting to enter into the

credit for wanting to enter into the classroom, saying that they removed

classroom, saying that they removed Ruben Ruiz because, quote, "We were just

Ruben Ruiz because, quote, "We were just afraid that he was going to try to run

afraid that he was going to try to run in the classroom and try to do what I

in the classroom and try to do what I wanted to do if I could have done it."

wanted to do if I could have done it." It came to be known that Chief Pete

It came to be known that Chief Pete Aridondo had been elected to the Evaldi

Aridondo had been elected to the Evaldi city council only a few weeks before the

city council only a few weeks before the shooting took place. The mayor, Dan

shooting took place. The mayor, Dan Mclofflin, said that a special meeting

Mclofflin, said that a special meeting where he would have been sworn in would

where he would have been sworn in would no longer take place, saying that they

no longer take place, saying that they were going to focus more on the families

were going to focus more on the families that lost loved ones instead. However,

that lost loved ones instead. However, he lamented that in his words, "Nothing

he lamented that in his words, "Nothing in the city charter, election code, or

in the city charter, election code, or Texas constitution that prohibits

Texas constitution that prohibits Arrodondo from taking the oath of

Arrodondo from taking the oath of office, saying that there wasn't an

office, saying that there wasn't an official investigation taking place into

official investigation taking place into him. He was later sworn in in secret

him. He was later sworn in in secret without a ceremony, becoming a

without a ceremony, becoming a full-fledged city council member.

full-fledged city council member. A Texas state senator, Roland Gutierrez,

A Texas state senator, Roland Gutierrez, said that he had heard from the

said that he had heard from the Commission on State Emergency

Commission on State Emergency Communications that Arrodondo had no

Communications that Arrodondo had no knowledge that any of the kids in the

knowledge that any of the kids in the classrooms had called 911. [music] This

classrooms had called 911. [music] This was, of course, a lie. However, he

was, of course, a lie. However, he didn't take a hard stance, admitting

didn't take a hard stance, admitting that he didn't know for sure at the

that he didn't know for sure at the time. He had even heard that Arrodondo

time. He had even heard that Arrodondo didn't have a radio on his person at

didn't have a radio on his person at all, which does seem to be true.

all, which does seem to be true. However, other officers had been there

However, other officers had been there relaying information from the

relaying information from the dispatchers. It wasn't long before the

dispatchers. It wasn't long before the New York Times was able to find

New York Times was able to find definitive proof that the police

definitive proof that the police officers on scene were well aware of the

officers on scene were well aware of the children trapped inside the classrooms.

children trapped inside the classrooms. On June 2nd, a private meeting was held

On June 2nd, a private meeting was held at the Uvaldi city hall where many of

at the Uvaldi city hall where many of the higherups from around town were

the higherups from around town were [music] present. The meeting was

[music] present. The meeting was arranged by the governor's office and it

arranged by the governor's office and it was said to be in relation to rising

was said to be in relation to rising tensions between Uvaldi officials.

tensions between Uvaldi officials. During this meeting, the most clear

During this meeting, the most clear signs of a police cover up were

signs of a police cover up were displayed. [music] A one-page document

displayed. [music] A one-page document very transparently titled the narrative

very transparently titled the narrative was given to McRaw, the director of the

was given to McRaw, the director of the DPS by the city attorney Paul Tarski.

DPS by the city attorney Paul Tarski. This was just as it sounds, the

This was just as it sounds, the narrative surrounding the police

narrative surrounding the police response that those involved had written

response that those involved had written themselves. [music] This was the

themselves. [music] This was the narrative that they wanted to be given

narrative that they wanted to be given to the media. The city officials then

to the media. The city officials then began to pressure Steve Mcra and the DPS

began to pressure Steve Mcra and the DPS to start using their story. It was clear

to start using their story. It was clear that the document was very favorable

that the document was very favorable toward the police, highlighting, in

toward the police, highlighting, in their words, the quick arrival of

their words, the quick arrival of officers at the school and their success

officers at the school and their success in containing the gunman. Some exerpts

in containing the gunman. Some exerpts were, "Within 5 minutes of receiving a

were, "Within 5 minutes of receiving a report of an accident at approximately

report of an accident at approximately 11:30 a.m. on May 24th, patrol officers

11:30 a.m. on May 24th, patrol officers Mendoza and Sedo and their patrol

Mendoza and Sedo and their patrol sergeant, Daniel Coronado, were on scene

sergeant, Daniel Coronado, were on scene taking fire. They immediately pursued

taking fire. They immediately pursued the suspect as he ran to rob school."

the suspect as he ran to rob school." This was the first lie as they didn't

This was the first lie as they didn't take fire outside of the school. They

take fire outside of the school. They also didn't run into the school

also didn't run into the school immediately after Salvador did. Another

immediately after Salvador did. Another excerpt stated, "Officers Pete Aridondo,

excerpt stated, "Officers Pete Aridondo, Donald Paige, Daniel Coronado, and

Donald Paige, Daniel Coronado, and Adrien Gonzalez followed the sound of

Adrien Gonzalez followed the sound of gunfire and entered the west end of

gunfire and entered the west end of Rob's school, while officers JB

Rob's school, while officers JB Martinez, and Eddie Canales entered into

Martinez, and Eddie Canales entered into the east end of Rob's school, also

the east end of Rob's school, also following the sound of gunfire. There

following the sound of gunfire. There was zero hesitation on any of these

was zero hesitation on any of these officers' part. They move directly

officers' part. They move directly towards the gunfire. The total number of

towards the gunfire. The total number of persons saved by the heroes that our

persons saved by the heroes that our local law enforcement and the other

local law enforcement and the other assisting agencies is over 500 per

assisting agencies is over 500 per UCISD.

UCISD. These were more lies as the officers

These were more lies as the officers weren't able to tell where the gunfire

weren't able to tell where the gunfire was coming from, thus couldn't move

was coming from, thus couldn't move right towards it. All of them also

right towards it. All of them also hesitated, grouping up in the hallway

hesitated, grouping up in the hallway for quite a long time before even

for quite a long time before even approaching the classrooms. Next, they

approaching the classrooms. Next, they immediately approached the door and were

immediately approached the door and were fired upon by the suspect with an AR

fired upon by the suspect with an AR rifle approximately four times with

rifle approximately four times with Eddie Canales taking shrapnel to his ear

Eddie Canales taking shrapnel to his ear and Jav Martinez being grazed by a

and Jav Martinez being grazed by a bullet to the head. With both officers

bullet to the head. With both officers bleeding, they took cover a few yards

bleeding, they took cover a few yards down the hall to avoid fire and called

down the hall to avoid fire and called for backup. Time was not wasted, but

for backup. Time was not wasted, but each minute was used to save the lives

each minute was used to save the lives of children and teachers. Again, their

of children and teachers. Again, their approach to the door was far from

approach to the door was far from immediate. Martinez was also stated to

immediate. Martinez was also stated to have been injured by material from the

have been injured by material from the wall, not a bullet to the head. Then we

wall, not a bullet to the head. Then we have US Marshals arrived with shields.

have US Marshals arrived with shields. No one else, not UPD, not UCISD, not

No one else, not UPD, not UCISD, not Border Patrol, not DPS, not Homeland

Border Patrol, not DPS, not Homeland Security, and not any other agency had

Security, and not any other agency had shields available. Bortac insisted that

shields available. Bortac insisted that all the rooms be cleared, i.e. all the

all the rooms be cleared, i.e. all the children and teachers be removed prior

children and teachers be removed prior to use of the shields in breach of room

to use of the shields in breach of room 112.

112. There wasn't any evidence that Border

There wasn't any evidence that Border Patrol insisted that all of the rooms be

Patrol insisted that all of the rooms be cleared before they made their breach.

cleared before they made their breach. They also had the shields, many of which

They also had the shields, many of which weren't even graded for a rifle, on

weren't even graded for a rifle, on scene long before the breach was made.

scene long before the breach was made. And then, absent the shields, every UPD

And then, absent the shields, every UPD officer was of the opinion that

officer was of the opinion that breaching the door was suicide. And

breaching the door was suicide. And every Texas Ranger or DPS agent who took

every Texas Ranger or DPS agent who took their statements agreed. Not a single

their statements agreed. Not a single officer present, including DPS troopers

officer present, including DPS troopers and Texas Rangers, believed that they

and Texas Rangers, believed that they could save lives by approaching that

could save lives by approaching that door and being killed one by one.

door and being killed one by one. In reality, several officers had

In reality, several officers had expressed interest in breaching the room

expressed interest in breaching the room as quickly as possible, with one of them

as quickly as possible, with one of them being dragged out of the building for

being dragged out of the building for insisting on doing so. There is also no

insisting on doing so. There is also no evidence that they believe they couldn't

evidence that they believe they couldn't save any lives. Steven Mcra of the DPS

save any lives. Steven Mcra of the DPS was highly critical of the narrative

was highly critical of the narrative document. He refused to endorse the

document. He refused to endorse the document as it was presented to him,

document as it was presented to him, saying he disagreed with their summary

saying he disagreed with their summary of the events. District Attorney Bush B

of the events. District Attorney Bush B also objected, arguing that she was

also objected, arguing that she was concerned about releasing such

concerned about releasing such inaccurate and incomplete information.

inaccurate and incomplete information. On June 3rd, the board of the UCISD held

On June 3rd, the board of the UCISD held a meeting to determine whether they

a meeting to determine whether they would be taking any action against Pete

would be taking any action against Pete Aridondo. They decided, not so

Aridondo. They decided, not so surprisingly, not to take any

surprisingly, not to take any disciplinary action against him. On June

disciplinary action against him. On June the 7th, Ardondo didn't attend the city

the 7th, Ardondo didn't attend the city council meeting. When the mayor was

council meeting. When the mayor was asked why that was, he said that he

asked why that was, he said that he couldn't answer that question. It was on

couldn't answer that question. It was on June 9th that Arrodondo started to give

June 9th that Arrodondo started to give his first interviews with the media and

his first interviews with the media and comment on the case. He said that the

comment on the case. He said that the only reason he waited that long was to

only reason he waited that long was to avoid blaming others or worsen the

avoid blaming others or worsen the community's grief. Pedro Pete Ardodondo

community's grief. Pedro Pete Ardodondo said that he arrived at the school and

said that he arrived at the school and thought that he was the first officer

thought that he was the first officer there. He said that he abandoned his

there. He said that he abandoned his police radio somewhere because he

police radio somewhere because he thought it would slow him down, saying

thought it would slow him down, saying that he wanted his hands free to fight

that he wanted his hands free to fight the gunman. When this was scrutinized,

the gunman. When this was scrutinized, he said that the radio's antenna would

he said that the radio's antenna would bump into him while he ran and might

bump into him while he ran and might fall off of his belt. [music] He further

fall off of his belt. [music] He further said that he knew that the radios didn't

said that he knew that the radios didn't usually work well in school buildings

usually work well in school buildings anyway. He further lied, saying that he

anyway. He further lied, saying that he was completely unaware of the 911 calls

was completely unaware of the 911 calls being made from the classrooms because

being made from the classrooms because he didn't have his radio despite being

he didn't have his radio despite being in the same hallway as the other

in the same hallway as the other officers talking about it. He said that

officers talking about it. He said that he didn't know that he was the incident

he didn't know that he was the incident commander, thinking he was a frontline

commander, thinking he was a frontline responder. This again would be a lie

responder. This again would be a lie because according to the National

because according to the National Incident Management System, the first

Incident Management System, the first person on scene is the incident

person on scene is the incident commander. if he really did think that

commander. if he really did think that he was the first officer on scene as he

he was the first officer on scene as he said, he would have known that that role

said, he would have known that that role would have gone to him. The DPS also

would have gone to him. The DPS also described him as such, never implying

described him as such, never implying that it was unclear to anyone else at

that it was unclear to anyone else at the time. Orodondo said that he tried to

the time. Orodondo said that he tried to open the door to classroom 111 while

open the door to classroom 111 while another UPD officer tried to open the

another UPD officer tried to open the door to 112, but both were locked. This

door to 112, but both were locked. This was either an outright lie or they

was either an outright lie or they didn't try hard enough to open it. He

didn't try hard enough to open it. He then said that the door to 111 had a

then said that the door to 111 had a steel jam that prevented it from being

steel jam that prevented it from being opened. This was also later determined

opened. This was also later determined to be false. Orodondo then said that he

to be false. Orodondo then said that he didn't know that Salvador was firing

didn't know that Salvador was firing from inside the classroom or that some

from inside the classroom or that some other officers had been grazed. He would

other officers had been grazed. He would have had to be blind and deaf for this

have had to be blind and deaf for this to be true. He was in the hallway

to be true. He was in the hallway himself for almost the entire time and

himself for almost the entire time and all of the other officers continued to

all of the other officers continued to talk about being shot at throughout the

talk about being shot at throughout the entire incident. He said that he was

entire incident. He said that he was provided at least 30 keys to the rooms,

provided at least 30 keys to the rooms, none of which worked. He said that he

none of which worked. He said that he didn't get a master key until a while

didn't get a master key until a while later when another officer called him on

later when another officer called him on his cell phone to tell him so. [music]

his cell phone to tell him so. [music] This further damaged his credibility as

This further damaged his credibility as while he didn't have his radio, he did

while he didn't have his radio, he did have his phone and was able to answer it

have his phone and was able to answer it when needed. Then he denied he was a

when needed. Then he denied he was a coward and spit a line almost straight

coward and spit a line almost straight from the narrative document. He said the

from the narrative document. He said the objective was to save as many lives as

objective was to save as many lives as we could [music] and the extraction of

we could [music] and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all

the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 400 of our

that were involved saved over 400 of our Yuvaldi students and teachers before we

Yuvaldi students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and

gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat. The same day that

eliminated the threat. The same day that Orodondo gave that interview, a

Orodondo gave that interview, a committee began to investigate the

committee began to investigate the shooting on behalf of the Texas House of

shooting on behalf of the Texas House of Representatives. They explained that the

Representatives. They explained that the investigation would be done in private

investigation would be done in private in order to preserve accuracy and be as

in order to preserve accuracy and be as thorough as possible before coming to a

thorough as possible before coming to a conclusion.

conclusion. It took several weeks before it was

It took several weeks before it was revealed that the police didn't even try

revealed that the police didn't even try to open the door to the classroom for 77

to open the door to the classroom for 77 minutes before the border patrol made

minutes before the border patrol made their way in. This was because a law

their way in. This was because a law enforcement source close to the

enforcement source close to the investigation leaked that information to

investigation leaked that information to the media after seeing the surveillance

the media after seeing the surveillance video from inside the school himself.

video from inside the school himself. The media at first wondered if this was

The media at first wondered if this was because they assumed the door was

because they assumed the door was locked, but the leaker expressed that

locked, but the leaker expressed that many officers were aware it likely

many officers were aware it likely wasn't. Still, he said that Pete

wasn't. Still, he said that Pete Orodondo had tried various different

Orodondo had tried various different keys out, but not on the doors to 111 or

keys out, but not on the doors to 111 or 112. Instead, he tried them on other

112. Instead, he tried them on other doors while trying to determine which

doors while trying to determine which was a master key. The DPS director came

was a master key. The DPS director came to testify during the Texas Senate

to testify during the Texas Senate Committee meeting on the Yuvaldi school

Committee meeting on the Yuvaldi school shooting that the police response was an

shooting that the police response was an quote abject failure and antithetical to

quote abject failure and antithetical to everything we have learned over the past

everything we have learned over the past two decades. Saying that objectively the

two decades. Saying that objectively the police could have easily stopped the

police could have easily stopped the shooting within 3 minutes. He pointed

shooting within 3 minutes. He pointed the finger at Peter Ardondo saying that

the finger at Peter Ardondo saying that he was the onseen commander at the time.

he was the onseen commander at the time. He said the only thing stopping a

He said the only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from

hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the

entering room 111 and 112 was the onseene commander who decided to place

onseene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives

the lives of officers before the lives of children. The Texas House

of children. The Texas House investigative community came to release

investigative community came to release a 77page report detailing these

a 77page report detailing these systematic failures and the poor

systematic failures and the poor decision-making on part of the police,

decision-making on part of the police, saying that they exacerbated the

saying that they exacerbated the shooting. The committee heavily

shooting. The committee heavily criticized state and federal officials

criticized state and federal officials as well. Things were made even worse

as well. Things were made even worse when it was confirmed via the records of

when it was confirmed via the records of multiple complaints to the school that

multiple complaints to the school that the lock to room 111 was indeed broken.

the lock to room 111 was indeed broken. Meaning that the police's claims of

Meaning that the police's claims of needing a master key or breaching tools

needing a master key or breaching tools before they could continue was entirely

before they could continue was entirely baseless. Either a ridiculous mistake

baseless. Either a ridiculous mistake that costed an hour or part of an

that costed an hour or part of an intentional delay.

intentional delay. Like with many other school shootings,

Like with many other school shootings, some people immediately jumped to the

some people immediately jumped to the conclusion that the shooting was either

conclusion that the shooting was either a SCOP or a false flag operation. Many

a SCOP or a false flag operation. Many of them were convinced by the simple

of them were convinced by the simple fact that Salvador had enough money to

fact that Salvador had enough money to buy the two rifles and ammunition. While

buy the two rifles and ammunition. While it was a good amount of money for an

it was a good amount of money for an 18-year-old, saving up around $5,000

18-year-old, saving up around $5,000 over a year of working three different

over a year of working three different part-time jobs, Waterburg, Wendy's, and

part-time jobs, Waterburg, Wendy's, and air conditioning, when you have no

air conditioning, when you have no expenses at all isn't much of an ask.

expenses at all isn't much of an ask. The minimum wage in Yuvali was $7.25.

The minimum wage in Yuvali was $7.25. [music] Even at working a low 20 hours a

[music] Even at working a low 20 hours a week, that would amount to 6,960

week, that would amount to 6,960 over the year. Assuming that Salvador

over the year. Assuming that Salvador did spend a little of his money here and

did spend a little of his money here and there, saving a bit over $5,000 wouldn't

there, saving a bit over $5,000 wouldn't have been much of a stretch. Knowing

have been much of a stretch. Knowing that Wendy's pays an average of $10 to

that Wendy's pays an average of $10 to $15 an hour in Texas, it would have been

$15 an hour in Texas, it would have been even easier. The Donna Independent

even easier. The Donna Independent School District in Donna, Texas, about

School District in Donna, Texas, about 240 mi from Yaldi, got a threat towards

240 mi from Yaldi, got a threat towards one of their own schools. Due to that,

one of their own schools. Due to that, class was cancelled while the threat was

class was cancelled while the threat was investigated. The Department of Homeland

investigated. The Department of Homeland Security got involved saying that this

Security got involved saying that this was due to both the false flag theories

was due to both the false flag theories and the praise that Salvador was getting

and the praise that Salvador was getting online. They said, "Individuals in

online. They said, "Individuals in online forums that routinely promulgate

online forums that routinely promulgate domestic violent extremist and

domestic violent extremist and conspiracy theory related content have

conspiracy theory related content have praised this shooting and encouraged

praised this shooting and encouraged copycat attacks." Adding that other

copycat attacks." Adding that other people aimed to spread disinformation

people aimed to spread disinformation and incite grievances, including claims

and incite grievances, including claims it was a government-staged event meant

it was a government-staged event meant to advance gun control measures.

to advance gun control measures. The city of Yuvaldi began to try its

The city of Yuvaldi began to try its best through their attorneys to prevent

best through their attorneys to prevent the release of police records related to

the release of police records related to the shooting. They said that the

the shooting. They said that the information was of no concern to the

information was of no concern to the public, that there was embarrassing

public, that there was embarrassing information related to criminal history,

information related to criminal history, and that they may expose the police's

and that they may expose the police's strategies related to preventing and

strategies related to preventing and predicting crime. They also said that

predicting crime. They also said that they could expose anyone involved to a

they could expose anyone involved to a risk of harm. The city also cited what

risk of harm. The city also cited what is called the dead suspect loophole as

is called the dead suspect loophole as well, where information is suppressed in

well, where information is suppressed in a case that has no convictions, such as

a case that has no convictions, such as when a suspect is already dead. On June

when a suspect is already dead. On June 22nd, the UCISD board decided to put

22nd, the UCISD board decided to put Arrodondo on administrative leave for an

Arrodondo on administrative leave for an unspecified amount of time. Shortly

unspecified amount of time. Shortly after, on July 2nd, Ardondo decided to

after, on July 2nd, Ardondo decided to resign from his position on the city

resign from his position on the city council entirely. It wasn't long after

council entirely. It wasn't long after that, the Uvaldi school board voted

that, the Uvaldi school board voted unanimously to terminate his contract as

unanimously to terminate his contract as the police chief. The district attorney

the police chief. The district attorney of Yubaldi County adamantly objected to

of Yubaldi County adamantly objected to releasing a portion of the security

releasing a portion of the security camera video taken in the hallway during

camera video taken in the hallway during the police response to the shooting.

the police response to the shooting. While the clip was edited to end right

While the clip was edited to end right before the police entered into the

before the police entered into the classroom, didn't show any violence on

classroom, didn't show any violence on screen and was edited to remove sounds

screen and was edited to remove sounds of screaming, he still opposed it. The

of screaming, he still opposed it. The mayor, however, thought that the video

mayor, however, thought that the video needed to be shown to the public. On

needed to be shown to the public. On July 12th, that video was released. It

July 12th, that video was released. It was 77 minutes of video compiled from

was 77 minutes of video compiled from both the hallway footage and some of the

both the hallway footage and some of the police body cam overlaid on top when

police body cam overlaid on top when appropriate. While the video was

appropriate. While the video was intended to be shown to the families of

intended to be shown to the families of the victims first and then released to

the victims first and then released to the public later, the opposite happened

the public later, the opposite happened when the media ended up having a copy

when the media ended up having a copy leaked and publishing it before that.

leaked and publishing it before that. This created a lot of anger among some

This created a lot of anger among some of the family members, but others were

of the family members, but others were actually happy about it being released

actually happy about it being released to the public so that the community

to the public so that the community could see that they were being lied to

could see that they were being lied to about the police response. When the

about the police response. When the video leaked, all hell broke loose.

video leaked, all hell broke loose. Outrage was everywhere as it showed that

Outrage was everywhere as it showed that the police had not only lied about their

the police had not only lied about their swift response, their early attempts to

swift response, their early attempts to enter the room, and more. It also showed

enter the room, and more. It also showed how not seriously they were taking the

how not seriously they were taking the situation. Some cops were seen fist

situation. Some cops were seen fist bumping each other, others looking at

bumping each other, others looking at their phones, and one of them was seen

their phones, and one of them was seen taking some hand sanitizer from a

taking some hand sanitizer from a dispenser on the wall near the

dispenser on the wall near the classrooms. More than anything, it

classrooms. More than anything, it showed them mainly only standing around

showed them mainly only standing around while Salvador executed children and

while Salvador executed children and tortured his victims just behind the

tortured his victims just behind the unlocked door for 70 whole minutes.

unlocked door for 70 whole minutes. Salvador's mom came to say that the

Salvador's mom came to say that the months since the shooting were very

months since the shooting were very difficult for her. She and her current

difficult for her. She and her current boyfriend, Juan Alvarez, left town after

boyfriend, Juan Alvarez, left town after the murders due to death threats. After

the murders due to death threats. After that, they were kind of on the run. They

that, they were kind of on the run. They moved to Oklahoma for 8 months, but she

moved to Oklahoma for 8 months, but she was unable to find a job there. She got

was unable to find a job there. She got arrested within 1 month of the shooting

arrested within 1 month of the shooting for criminal trespass and driving

for criminal trespass and driving without a license, only to be released

without a license, only to be released shortly after. After that, she bounced

shortly after. After that, she bounced around from job to job elsewhere. During

around from job to job elsewhere. During this, she was arrested yet again, this

this, she was arrested yet again, this time for assaulting her boyfriend. After

time for assaulting her boyfriend. After they decided to move back to Yuvaldi

they decided to move back to Yuvaldi together and live at one of her mom's

together and live at one of her mom's properties free of charge, she said that

properties free of charge, she said that nobody will hire her now and that they

nobody will hire her now and that they both lived off of Juan's $900 disability

both lived off of Juan's $900 disability checks and about $600 in food stamps

checks and about $600 in food stamps that they got together. She now sells

that they got together. She now sells random products out of her house to make

random products out of her house to make a bit of money. She also admitted that

a bit of money. She also admitted that she keeps Salvador's room just as it

she keeps Salvador's room just as it was, almost treating it as a shrine to

was, almost treating it as a shrine to him. She's been proud to show this to

him. She's been proud to show this to the media, even holding up her son's

the media, even holding up her son's clothes for the camera. However, Adriana

clothes for the camera. However, Adriana got into trouble again when she actually

got into trouble again when she actually got into a confrontation with one of the

got into a confrontation with one of the victim's families, yelling at them in

victim's families, yelling at them in public. It was even caught on camera.

public. It was even caught on camera. This was the family of Amiri Joe Garza.

This was the family of Amiri Joe Garza. And when they spoke badly of her son,

And when they spoke badly of her son, she yelled that they had no right to

she yelled that they had no right to judge him. If anyone in the world had

judge him. If anyone in the world had the right to pass judgment on him, it

the right to pass judgment on him, it would have been them. She shouted, "You

would have been them. She shouted, "You have no right to judge my son. No, you

have no right to judge my son. No, you don't. No, you don't. May God forgive

don't. No, you don't. May God forgive you all. All they wanted was answers. As

you all. All they wanted was answers. As the family demanded to know why Salvador

the family demanded to know why Salvador did what he did, they responded with,

did what he did, they responded with, "What reasons? Because he was pissed off

"What reasons? Because he was pissed off at you. Because you destroyed him? What

at you. Because you destroyed him? What reason did he have to kill 21 people?"

reason did he have to kill 21 people?" Adriana replied that Salvador had mental

Adriana replied that Salvador had mental health issues. She said, "I know my son

health issues. She said, "I know my son was a coward. You don't think I don't

was a coward. You don't think I don't know that? I know. You don't think I'm

know that? I know. You don't think I'm carrying all that with me? I know, and

carrying all that with me? I know, and I'm sorry."

I'm sorry." It finally came time for the first

It finally came time for the first officer involved in the handling of the

officer involved in the handling of the shooting to face consequences. This was

shooting to face consequences. This was a Texas state trooper named Crimson

a Texas state trooper named Crimson Elzando. She was investigated by the DPS

Elzando. She was investigated by the DPS for what they called actions

for what they called actions inconsistent with training and

inconsistent with training and department requirements. As a result,

department requirements. As a result, she resigned from her job. However,

she resigned from her job. However, shortly after, she actually got a job as

shortly after, she actually got a job as a UCISD police officer. Crimson had been

a UCISD police officer. Crimson had been caught on body camera footage, admitting

caught on body camera footage, admitting to the other officers that she wasn't

to the other officers that she wasn't responding to the case in a hands-on way

responding to the case in a hands-on way because more or less the kids in there

because more or less the kids in there weren't hers and she didn't care. She

weren't hers and she didn't care. She mostly stood outside despite being one

mostly stood outside despite being one of the first officers on scene. She told

of the first officers on scene. She told them, "If my son had been in there, I

them, "If my son had been in there, I would have not been outside. I promise

would have not been outside. I promise you that." When this audio leaked, she

you that." When this audio leaked, she was fired from her job at UCISD as well.

was fired from her job at UCISD as well. In October of 2022, another Texas state

In October of 2022, another Texas state trooper, Sergeant Juan Maldonado, was

trooper, Sergeant Juan Maldonado, was fired from the DPS. He had also been one

fired from the DPS. He had also been one of the first officers to arrive on scene

of the first officers to arrive on scene within the first 5 minutes and failed to

within the first 5 minutes and failed to act in any meaningful way.

act in any meaningful way. More strange arrests would come to be

More strange arrests would come to be made as well, one of which was the

made as well, one of which was the arrest of Nathan Cruz. This was

arrest of Nathan Cruz. This was Salvador's 17-year-old cousin, who was

Salvador's 17-year-old cousin, who was arrested on August 8th, 2023, about a

arrested on August 8th, 2023, about a year later. This was after he made a

year later. This was after he made a threat that was deemed to be terroristic

threat that was deemed to be terroristic in nature after he told his sister, "I'm

in nature after he told his sister, "I'm planning on doing the same thing as my

planning on doing the same thing as my cousin." Adding that he would shoot her

cousin." Adding that he would shoot her in the head before he did it. To make

in the head before he did it. To make matters worse, they lived within walking

matters worse, they lived within walking distance of an elementary school as

distance of an elementary school as well. He was hit with a felony charge of

well. He was hit with a felony charge of making a terroristic threat to the

making a terroristic threat to the public and another misdemeanor charge of

public and another misdemeanor charge of making a terroristic threat against a

making a terroristic threat against a family member. He was hit with a bond of

family member. He was hit with a bond of $160,000 and remained in jail until the

$160,000 and remained in jail until the case was dismissed entirely due to a

case was dismissed entirely due to a missing witness. Throughout 2023, an

missing witness. Throughout 2023, an 18-year-old girl named Victoria

18-year-old girl named Victoria Gabriella Rodriguez Morales continued to

Gabriella Rodriguez Morales continued to claim that she had been Salvador's

claim that she had been Salvador's girlfriend before the massacre. She said

girlfriend before the massacre. She said that they had actually planned it

that they had actually planned it together, but he decided to carry it out

together, but he decided to carry it out without her. Given that there is nothing

without her. Given that there is nothing to back this up at all, her story isn't

to back this up at all, her story isn't believed. However, she was known to

believed. However, she was known to issue threats to schools herself

issue threats to schools herself starting all the way back in 2018. That

starting all the way back in 2018. That year was when she was sent to a juvenile

year was when she was sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas. But then she

detention center in Texas. But then she started sending more threats, saying

started sending more threats, saying that she would quote, "Kill public

that she would quote, "Kill public officials, shoot schools, and kill

officials, shoot schools, and kill teachers and students." One condition of

teachers and students." One condition of her parole was that she would have to

her parole was that she would have to move back to Puerto Rico. However, she

move back to Puerto Rico. However, she continued to harass schools in Yuvaldi,

continued to harass schools in Yuvaldi, even there, especially after the

even there, especially after the shooting. She threatened not only the

shooting. She threatened not only the school itself, but hospitals and even

school itself, but hospitals and even the survivors. She was found in Puerto

the survivors. She was found in Puerto Rico and arrested on 13 charges related

Rico and arrested on 13 charges related to interstate threats. She's looking at

to interstate threats. She's looking at up to 60 years in prison now. She

up to 60 years in prison now. She badmouththed the victims in the

badmouththed the victims in the shooting, calling them all the little

shooting, calling them all the little loser souls and saying that she hoped

loser souls and saying that she hoped they were burning in hell. Of all of the

they were burning in hell. Of all of the people arrested, one was fairly distant

people arrested, one was fairly distant from the case geographically at least.

from the case geographically at least. You may remember Salvador's online

You may remember Salvador's online friend, the German girl who he told that

friend, the German girl who he told that he was going to shoot up the school.

he was going to shoot up the school. While she originally responded with

While she originally responded with cool, she deleted this message in hopes

cool, she deleted this message in hopes that no officials would find it.

that no officials would find it. However, the message was stored

However, the message was stored internally on Facebook and screenshots

internally on Facebook and screenshots had already been spread around and

had already been spread around and discussed on Yubo. She actually got

discussed on Yubo. She actually got arrested and faced trial in Frankfurt on

arrested and faced trial in Frankfurt on charges of failing to report planned

charges of failing to report planned crimes. She didn't see jail time,

crimes. She didn't see jail time, instead being ordered to undergo what

instead being ordered to undergo what they called educational measures.

they called educational measures. Later, CNN reported on some of the audio

Later, CNN reported on some of the audio and video related to the body cam of the

and video related to the body cam of the UPD police chief, Lieutenant Mariano

UPD police chief, Lieutenant Mariano Pargas. You'll remember him as the man

Pargas. You'll remember him as the man who got told about the 911 calls coming

who got told about the 911 calls coming from inside the classroom and said okay

from inside the classroom and said okay before waving it away. It was found that

before waving it away. It was found that he made a call to a dispatcher asking

he made a call to a dispatcher asking how many more were still alive in the

how many more were still alive in the room being told that 8 to nine likely

room being told that 8 to nine likely were. It was found that he informed a

were. It was found that he informed a border patrol of the information but

border patrol of the information but neglected to mention it to the Texas

neglected to mention it to the Texas Rangers. Just 2 days before the city

Rangers. Just 2 days before the city council was to determine whether or not

council was to determine whether or not to fire him, Parus retired from his job

to fire him, Parus retired from his job at the UPD. In January 2023, another

at the UPD. In January 2023, another Texas Ranger was fired. this time being

Texas Ranger was fired. this time being Christopher Ryan Kindle. This was

Christopher Ryan Kindle. This was because he had failed to treat Salvador

because he had failed to treat Salvador as an active shooter despite his

as an active shooter despite his specific training being that he should

specific training being that he should have known differently. However, when he

have known differently. However, when he appealed this firing, he was placed back

appealed this firing, he was placed back into his previous position. In September

into his previous position. In September of 2023, the DPS announced their

of 2023, the DPS announced their internal investigation had finished. No

internal investigation had finished. No more Texas Rangers would now be

more Texas Rangers would now be punished.

punished. Some laws were changed as a result of

Some laws were changed as a result of this case. As a result of both this

this case. As a result of both this crime and Payton Gendin's massacre in

crime and Payton Gendin's massacre in Buffalo, New York, the state of New York

Buffalo, New York, the state of New York passed a new law that would raise the

passed a new law that would raise the age requirement to buy a semi-automatic

age requirement to buy a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21. Texas also passed

weapon from 18 to 21. Texas also passed a law requiring law enforcement to

a law requiring law enforcement to partake in 16 hours of courses related

partake in 16 hours of courses related to school shooting responses every 2

to school shooting responses every 2 years.

years. For the time being, it seemed that it

For the time being, it seemed that it was all over. The UCISD board announced

was all over. The UCISD board announced plans to build a new elementary school

plans to build a new elementary school to replace Rob Elementary. They began

to replace Rob Elementary. They began construction in 2023. It would be placed

construction in 2023. It would be placed near the Dalton Elementary School in

near the Dalton Elementary School in order to form a new campus that would

order to form a new campus that would host classes from preschool to 4th

host classes from preschool to 4th grade. [music] However, not all was

grade. [music] However, not all was over. While no more Texas Rangers would

over. While no more Texas Rangers would be punched by the DPS, the same didn't

be punched by the DPS, the same didn't apply to other officers on scene at the

apply to other officers on scene at the time. Many noticed that something seemed

time. Many noticed that something seemed to be brewing behind the scenes when

to be brewing behind the scenes when Pete Ardodondo lost his honorary

Pete Ardodondo lost his honorary discharge status at the end of 2023. The

discharge status at the end of 2023. The Uvaldi County District Attorney,

Uvaldi County District Attorney, Christina Mitchell, convened a grand

Christina Mitchell, convened a grand jury to find out whether or not any of

jury to find out whether or not any of their own officers should be criminally

their own officers should be criminally charged for their lack of response on

charged for their lack of response on the day of the shooting. Shortly after,

the day of the shooting. Shortly after, in January 2024, the grand jury began

in January 2024, the grand jury began hearing testimonies. Steve Mcra, the DPS

hearing testimonies. Steve Mcra, the DPS director, was happy to testify before

director, was happy to testify before them. Many other officers came to speak

them. Many other officers came to speak their piece as well. The Department of

their piece as well. The Department of Justice had also finished their report

Justice had also finished their report detailing their own findings. When

detailing their own findings. When investigating the case, they criticized

investigating the case, they criticized a large number of failures on the part

a large number of failures on the part of the Ualdi police. They noted the

of the Ualdi police. They noted the failure to recognize the case as an

failure to recognize the case as an active shooting, the failure to secure

active shooting, the failure to secure the crime scene, the failure to follow

the crime scene, the failure to follow standard operating procedures, and the

standard operating procedures, and the failure to communicate appropriately

failure to communicate appropriately with the families. They even attack the

with the families. They even attack the personal character of the police, saying

personal character of the police, saying that they lack courage. Not only that,

that they lack courage. Not only that, but the DOJ had confirmed that the

but the DOJ had confirmed that the victim's families were indeed harassed

victim's families were indeed harassed by the police after the incident

by the police after the incident somewhat regularly in the hopes that

somewhat regularly in the hopes that they would leave town. This whole report

they would leave town. This whole report was of major use to the grand jury. On

was of major use to the grand jury. On June 27th, 2024, the grand jury indicted

June 27th, 2024, the grand jury indicted the first Yuvaldi police officer, that

the first Yuvaldi police officer, that being none other than Pete Ardondo. They

being none other than Pete Ardondo. They then indicted another, Adrien Gonzalez.

then indicted another, Adrien Gonzalez. They were hit with multiple felony

They were hit with multiple felony charges of child endangerment. Ardondo

charges of child endangerment. Ardondo was hit with 10 while Gonzalez was hit

was hit with 10 while Gonzalez was hit with 29 charges. It's unclear why the

with 29 charges. It's unclear why the difference in their counts is so high,

difference in their counts is so high, but it was mentioned that Gonzalez was a

but it was mentioned that Gonzalez was a senior officer who had taken school

senior officer who had taken school shooting related training in the past.

shooting related training in the past. So, he may have been seen as having more

So, he may have been seen as having more responsibility to act accordingly. Pete

responsibility to act accordingly. Pete Ardondo was arrested and booked into the

Ardondo was arrested and booked into the Yuvaldi jail that day, the same jail

Yuvaldi jail that day, the same jail that he used to place criminals into

that he used to place criminals into himself. However, he was able to pay

himself. However, he was able to pay $100,000 in bonds and walk free for the

$100,000 in bonds and walk free for the time being. Adrien Gonzalez turned

time being. Adrien Gonzalez turned himself in a day later. He himself was

himself in a day later. He himself was released after he posted a $10,000 bail.

released after he posted a $10,000 bail. Both officers are looking at at least 2

Both officers are looking at at least 2 years in prison and $10,000 in fines if

years in prison and $10,000 in fines if they are convicted. Many feel that they

they are convicted. Many feel that they deserve much more. On July 18th, 2024,

deserve much more. On July 18th, 2024, it was time for Ardondo to make his

it was time for Ardondo to make his plea. He predictably plead not guilty to

plea. He predictably plead not guilty to all 10 of the charges against him.

all 10 of the charges against him. Similarly, Gonzalez plead not guilty to

Similarly, Gonzalez plead not guilty to all 29 of his own charges as well. With

all 29 of his own charges as well. With that, they will both face trial. As of

that, they will both face trial. As of now, their trial dates have been pushed

now, their trial dates have been pushed back a few times. Only time will tell

back a few times. Only time will tell what kind of sentence they might serve.

what kind of sentence they might serve. In autumn of 2025, the replacement for

In autumn of 2025, the replacement for the Rob Elementary School called Legacy

the Rob Elementary School called Legacy Elementary School opened for new

Elementary School opened for new students about 2 mi away from where Rob

students about 2 mi away from where Rob was located. The ribbon cutting ceremony

was located. The ribbon cutting ceremony that opened the school was very

that opened the school was very emotional. Even though it was a new

emotional. Even though it was a new school, it was impossible to ignore the

school, it was impossible to ignore the fact that it was replacing a school that

fact that it was replacing a school that was part of one of the biggest tragedies

was part of one of the biggest tragedies in American history. This was something

in American history. This was something that the staff didn't ignore. The UCISD

that the staff didn't ignore. The UCISD president, Laura Perez, said, "This

president, Laura Perez, said, "This school is not about forgetting. It's

school is not about forgetting. It's about remembering with dignity,

about remembering with dignity, rebuilding with courage, and choosing to

rebuilding with courage, and choosing to believe in the future even when the past

believe in the future even when the past still hurts." The new school includes a

still hurts." The new school includes a tribute to the 21 who died that day,

tribute to the 21 who died that day, along with a memorial tree to honor

along with a memorial tree to honor them.

The Rob Elementary School, as of the making of this video, still hasn't been

making of this video, still hasn't been torn down. It remains in town, mostly

torn down. It remains in town, mostly dark with only a few outside lights to

dark with only a few outside lights to prevent intruders. It continues as a

prevent intruders. It continues as a grim reminder of what happened that day,

grim reminder of what happened that day, standing in the shadows.

standing in the shadows. Salvador's grandma, Sally, was

Salvador's grandma, Sally, was eventually released from the hospital,

eventually released from the hospital, finally recovering from the gunshot

finally recovering from the gunshot wound to her face. However, the bullet

wound to her face. However, the bullet destroyed her teeth and a good portion

destroyed her teeth and a good portion of her jaw. She will likely never be

of her jaw. She will likely never be able to speak again. She needed multiple

able to speak again. She needed multiple surgeries even after her discharge from

surgeries even after her discharge from the hospital. A GoFundMe page was

the hospital. A GoFundMe page was created to pay for some of those medical

created to pay for some of those medical bills. It asked for $100,000, but it

bills. It asked for $100,000, but it fell flat at around $47,000. Still a

fell flat at around $47,000. Still a surprising amount for the relative of a

surprising amount for the relative of a mass killer. Salvador's sister has

mass killer. Salvador's sister has joined the military and by most accounts

joined the military and by most accounts never speaks of her brother. Salvador's

never speaks of her brother. Salvador's mom believes that he is now in heaven,

mom believes that he is now in heaven, feeling that God has forgiven him for

feeling that God has forgiven him for what he did. She said that Salvador's

what he did. She said that Salvador's sister had a dream where he came to her

sister had a dream where he came to her and expressed that he was sorry, so it's

and expressed that he was sorry, so it's all good now. She is still known around

all good now. She is still known around the town for being a bit crazy. To

the town for being a bit crazy. To paraphrase the much more descriptive

paraphrase the much more descriptive comments given by the citizens of Uvaldi

comments given by the citizens of Uvaldi online, she boldly stated that she feels

online, she boldly stated that she feels no need to apologize to the families of

no need to apologize to the families of the victims. She stated, "What will it

the victims. She stated, "What will it accomplish? It's not going to bring back

accomplish? It's not going to bring back the kids, and it won't change their

the kids, and it won't change their minds on what they think of me or my

minds on what they think of me or my son." As off-putting as her statements

son." As off-putting as her statements are, she is right about that. Nobody

are, she is right about that. Nobody will ever think better of her son.

When he went in the classroom, he said, "You're all going to die." And he just

"You're all going to die." And he just started shooting. I was playing dead so

started shooting. I was playing dead so he won't shoot me. He shot my teacher

he won't shoot me. He shot my teacher and then he shot the kids. I think he

and then he shot the kids. I think he was aiming at me like the thing and then

was aiming at me like the thing and then he like I guess like one of the chairs

he like I guess like one of the chairs were there so it blocked it and like p

were there so it blocked it and like p like pieces in my leg. I kind of don't

like pieces in my leg. I kind of don't feel safe going to school and I feel hot

feel safe going to school and I feel hot and sometimes at night I have nightmares

and sometimes at night I have nightmares too.

Click on any text or timestamp to jump to that moment in the video

Most transcripts ready in under 5 seconds

One-Click Copy125+ LanguagesSearch ContentJump to Timestamps

Paste YouTube URL

Enter any YouTube video link to get the full transcript

Most transcripts ready in under 5 seconds

Get Our Chrome Extension

Get transcripts instantly without leaving YouTube. Install our Chrome extension for one-click access to any video's transcript directly on the watch page.

Add to Chrome — Free

Works with YouTube, Coursera, Udemy and more educational platforms

Get Instant Transcripts: Just Edit the Domain in Your Address Bar!

YouTube

←

→

↻

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

YoutubeToText

←

→

↻

https://youtubetotext.net/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

YouTube TranscriptPreparing your results…

YouTube Transcript:The Horrific School Shooting and the Worst Police Response