Less than a week before Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, his grandmother had asked him to take a gun out of the house.
Ramos lived with his grandparents at the time of the events. According to a neighbor’s account, last Thursday there was a fight between Celia Gonzales and her grandson because she did not want weapons in her house.
Rudy Martínez said in an interview with The Daily Beast that he spoke with Gonzales, nicknamed “Sally”, and she told him that she had argued with the young man of 18 years because he ordered him to remove the attack instrument from the residence.
“We heard them screaming,” Martínez recalled. “I asked Sally why they were fighting this time, and she told me that she and her sister or someone found out that Salvador had brought weapons to the house. She didn’t want them there,” added the source.
Natalie Salazar, Ramos’ aunt, told authorities that the family discovered a semi-automatic rifle in a canvas bag that day. At that time, the relatives told him that he had to remove the weapons from the house because the young man’s grandfather had a criminal record and cannot possess weapons.
According to a police source, the weapon would be the Smith & Wesson M&P15 that Ramos bought on May 17, one day after of his birthday.
Salazar’s story cited by the source indicates that, after the discovery, the gunman left the house.
Ramos also acquired a second rigle second rifle, a Daniel Defense M4 V7, that Friday.
When he returned home on Sunday, apparently the boy he did not carry weapons.
Before to go to the primary school on 24 in May where he opened fire in a room, Ramos shot his grandmother in the face, who is still hospitalized, and it is believed that she will not be able to speak again.
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