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New reports are painting a very disturbing picture about the 18-year-old who massacred 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Salvador Rolando Ramos had a history of disturbing behaviors before carrying out the attack.
Friends and family say he came from a dysfunctional home and suffered from significant childhood bullying. He was mocked for having a stutter and lisp.
People say this bully “scarred him for the rest of his life” and cause him to “descend into a dark spiral of violence and aggressiveness.”
Stephen Garcia, who says he was Ramos’ best friend, said, “He was the nicest kid, the most shyest kid. He just needed to break out of his shell.”
“He wasn’t very much of a social person after being bullied for the stutter,” said Ramos’ cousin Mia. “I think he just didn’t feel comfortable anymore at school.”
“He would get bullied hard, like bullied by a lot of people,” Garcia said. “Over social media, over gaming, over everything.”
“He posted videos on his Instagram where the cops were there and he’d call his mom a b—- and say she wanted to kick him out,” classmate Nadia Reyes said. “He’d be screaming and talking to his mom really aggressively.”
Childhood friend Santos Valdez Jr. said Ramos started to come to the local park with cuts on his face.
When Valdez asked about the cuts, Ramos said they were scratches from a cat.
Later Ramos admitted that “he’d cut up his face with knives over and over and over.”
“I was like, ‘You’re crazy, bro, why would you do that?’” he said. Ramos said he did it for fun.
Valdez also said Ramos and another boy would ride around in a car firing BB guns at random people.
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Garcia told the Post that Ramos “just started being a different person” who “kept getting worse and worse, and I don’t even know.”
He said this “different” Ramos had dropped out of school, let his hair grow long and began to wear all black and big military boots. Classmates told the Post that Ramos would not attend classes for long periods in high school.
A young woman who worked with Ramos at Wendy’s until March told The Daily Beast that although he appeared “quiet” to several others, she noticed aggressive tendencies in him.
“He would be very rude towards the girls sometimes, and one of the cooks, threatening them by asking, ‘Do you know who I am?’ And he would also send inappropriate texts to the ladies,” the co-worker told the outlet on the condition of anonymity.
“At the park, there’d be videos of him trying to fight people with boxing gloves. He’d take them around with him,” she said, according to the outlet.
Ramos had regular fights with his mother, who suffered from drug issues, according to the Daily Mail. These fights would sometimes escalate to the point where the police were called, 41-year-old neighbor Ruben Flores said.