Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old gunman who killed 21 people in an elementary school in Texas last week, loved hurting animals and bullying people according to his classmates from Uvalde High School.
Contrary to claims of Ramos' family that he was a loner and quiet person, students who knew Salvador said that he was a bully who picked fights by provoking other people. He was also seen abusing dogs, as per a report from The Independent.
His classmate Jaime Arellano informed the Daily Beast that Ramos "would go to the park and try to pick on people, and he loved hurting animals."
Others claimed Ramos bragged about torturing animals and broadcasted his animal abuse on Yubo, a French live streaming platform.
Ramos would put cats in plastic bags, suspend them inside, fling them to the ground, and throw them at people's houses, according to a Yubo user. They alleged Ramos would show these films to his pals while laughing and bragging about how they "did it all the time."
Ramos Threatened Women
Ramos was also accused of threatening sexual assault against women.
According to CNN, Ramos threatened to rape and murder Amanda Robbins, 19, after she rebuffed his sexual advances. Ramos allegedly threatened other girls with similar "acts of sexual abuse and violence," as per Robbins.
Several individuals reported Ramos' Yubo account for its graphic imagery and threats, but he was permitted back on the platform after a temporary restriction.
Hannah, 18, claimed she reported Ramos after he threatened to shoot up her school, rape, and kill her and her mother during a live stream session.
According to his friends and relatives, Ramos was ridiculed, slashed his own face, fired a BB pistol at random people, and egged automobiles in the years leading up to the deadly incident.
He was supposedly bullied as a child because of a speech handicap, and he retaliated violently against friends, strangers, and his mother.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Ramos' childhood friend Santos Valdez, 18, said the shooter's behavior became worse over the years.
Ramos appeared at a park where they used to play basketball with scratches all over his face, originally claiming he had been scratched by a cat, according to Valdez.
"Then he told me the truth, that he'd cut up his face with knives over and over and over," Valdez said.
Then Ramos claimed that he did it for fun, Valdez added.
Gunman's Image Haunts Teacher
One teacher in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde said that she is haunted by the picture of Ramos, armed, and entering the school minutes before the massacre, as reported by the New York Post.
"I can close my eyes and I see that image of him and that gun-walking up to my school," fourth-grade teacher Nicole Ogburn during an interview with "Today" that aired on Monday.
Ogburn admitted that she is not sure if she will be able to come back to the school where the horrific act happened.
"It just kept going off ... in what felt like an eternity," she noted.
As the investigation continues, responding police officers have come under fire for waiting more than an hour before breaking in and shooting Ramos, despite terrified students calling 911 pleading for assistance.
But for Nicole Ogburn, the only person to blame is no other than the gunman, Salvador Ramos.
"The only person here to blame is that person who came into my school and hurt my friends and the students who I saw every day and I loved," she told media outlet KENS 5.
