The store in Texas where Salvador Ramos, a school gunman from Uvalde, Texas, bought the weapons he used for the massacre sold 10,000 rounds of ammunition to a smuggler who attempted to transport the material across the border to a drug cartel in Mexico.
“Oasis Outback”, based in Uvalde, received an online order from the young man from 17 years by the seller “Daniel Defense”.
Media reports such as the Daily Mail this week indicate that the suspect bought a Smith & Wesson M&P15, an AR-15, and a Daniel Defense DDM4 rifle. The first of the weapons was bought on May 17, one day after his birthday; while the AR-15, the 20 of May.
The third weapon, the DDM4, with which he killed to 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary, was purchased on 24 May.
After the massacre, it emerged that Oasis Outback was the subject of an investigation for facilitating the sale of ammunition to a trafficker who was seeking to take it to Mexico and deliver it to a cartel, whose name is unknown.
Fred Farhat, owner of a boot and pants company in Eagle Pass, conspired with Noemi Carreón-González and her husband, Iván Ramos-González, to buy the material and try to transport it to the neighboring country .
In March 2009, Farhat , in a period of approximately three hours, he paid almost $6,000 in cash for ammunition.223 and 5.56 x 45.
Next, he moved the ammunition to his business, packed it and put it in Ramos-González’s vehicle.
This and his partner embarked on a journey to Piedras Negras in Mexico through the border with Eagle Pass. On the way, they had an accident.
Ramos-González escaped from the authorities. Carreón-González and Farhat were arrested.
The woman was sentenced in October of 2009 to 30 months in prison in a federal prison after pleading guilty.
While in the 2011, Farhat was sentenced to five years in prison.
Oasis Outback did not commit a crime according to the penal system, since the establishment is not obliged to register the ammunition sold.
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