According to media accounts, Salvador Rolando Ramos, the 18-year-old gunman who shot and killed 21 people at a Texas school, including 19 children, worked as a night manager at Wendy’s in Uvalde, a small working-class neighborhood.

He walked inside Robb Elementary School with a handgun and a semiautomatic rifle, wearing body armor, and began fire on the students. The motivation of the shooter is unknown.

According to accounts in the US media, he “loved to joke around,” according to persons who knew him. His coworkers told the New York Times that he “went out of his way to keep to himself” and that no one really knew him.

 

Two parents who claimed to be friends of the gunman’s family described him as serious and said he had a temper, according to the New York Times.

In his younger years, he was known to talk back to his mother. Both were startled, though, that he was capable of such aggression.

 

Ramos shot and gravely injured his grandmother at her home, the residence indicated on the gunman’s driver’s license, before heading to the school, according to state police.

His friends and family described him as a lonely 18-year-old who “was ridiculed for a childhood speech impediment, suffered from a tumultuous home life, and lashed out violently at peers and strangers recently and over the years,” according to the Washington Post.

 

Ramos is said to have dropped out of school due to bullying. According to the study, “he skipped large periods of high school and was not on schedule to graduate with them this year.”

 How Did Salvador Ramos Die?

Ramos was trailed and killed by police following the massacre, according to several reports.