Mom of Texas shooter reportedly in denial her son shot grandmother: ‘He loved my mom’

Uvalde mass shooter Salvador Ramos’ mother, Adriana Reyes, is reportedly experiencing massive disbelief over her son’s actions, which include shooting his grandmother and opening fire at an elementary school, killing over a dozen children.

The disbelief began the moment she learned that her son had shot her mother, i.e., his grandmother.

“She said, ‘I don’t believe that my son would do that. He loved my mom,'” according to Maria Alvarez, the mother of Reyes’ boyfriend.

Speaking with Fox News, Alvarez said that following the shooting, Reyes traveled to the hospital with her wounded mother but then returned to Alvarez’s home later that evening shaking and crying.

She’s also reportedly in disbelief over what Ramos did after shooting his grandmother, which was travel to a nearby elementary school and open fire, killing over a dozen children and at least two teachers.

“My son wasn’t a violent person. I’m surprised by what he did,” she said to the Daily Mail regarding the elementary school shooting.

She did admit in a separate interview with ABC News that he could “be aggressive if he got really mad,” though she doubled down on her belief that he was “not a monster.”

Continuing her remarks to the Daily Mail, Reyes also dismissed the evidence-backed claim that her relationship with her son had been toxic.

“I had a good relationship with him,” she said, adding that she’d given him “a card and a Snoopy stuffed animal” on his recent birthday last Monday.

But Alvarez has said differently.

“Alvarez said she never met Ramos but that Reyes would frequently discuss issues she was having with her son. She said many of the fights between the pair seem to revolve around school since Ramos was supposed to graduate from high school this year,” according to Fox News.

Reyes’ father, i.e., Ramos’ grandfather, has also said differently. He told the New York Post that Ramos had been living with him and his wife because he’d “had problems” with his mother.

He also revealed in a separate interview he’d had no idea that his grandson had purchased two AR-style rifles prior to Tuesday’s shootings.

“I didn’t know he had weapons. … If I would have known, I would have reported him,” he told ABC News.

Listen:

Grandfather speaks to ABC News about the 18-year-old suspect in Robb Elementary School shooting

“I didn’t know he had weapons… if I would have known, I would have reported him.”

Rolando Reyes spoke to ABC News’ Matt Gutman about his grandson, the 18-year-old suspect in the shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 21 people. https://abcn.ws/3MLVL7f

Posted by ABC News on Wednesday, May 25, 2022

As previously reported, on Tuesday Ramos shot his grandmother, fled the scene, crashed his car outside Robb Elementary School, entered the school after being briefly “engaged” by authorities, and then opened fire.

“A tactical team comprised of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents, a Zavala County deputy, and two Uvalde police officers” eventually breached a classroom in which Ramos had barricaded himself and shot and killed him, according to ABC News.

However, controversy is now brewing over how long it’d taken the authorities to enter the elementary school and neutralize the threat.

“Police who responded to the Texas school massacre have been accused of being ‘unprepared’ and failing to respond quickly enough after the shooter opened fire. Onlookers said they had to urge officers to move into the primary school as the assailant gunned down two teachers and 19 students,” according to The Independent.

“The father of 10-year-old victim Jacklyn Cazares said he even suggested he could go in himself with other bystanders as he was frustrated police were not doing it themselves.”

Watch, and note that this video was reportedly filmed before Ramos had been shot and killed:

Not until U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived on the scene did the authorities go inside, according to reports.

“U.S. Border Patrol Agents responded to a law enforcement request for assistance re an active shooter situation inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Upon entering the building, agents & other law enforcement officers faced gunfire from the subject, who was barricaded inside,” according to tweets from Homeland Security assistant secretary of public affairs, Marsha Espinosa.

“Risking their own lives, these Border Patrol Agents and other officers put themselves between the shooter and children on the scene to draw the shooter’s attention away from potential victims and save lives.”

Vivek Saxena

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