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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Uvalde, Texas – 24 May 2022
1. Law enforcement officers outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on day of shooting
2. Closer shot of school building
3. Law enforcement officers
4. Officers and others behind fence and crime scene tape
5. Wide of man with arm around woman walking toward school
6. Ambulance near school
7. Various officers near school
8. Hearse drives past emergency vehicles outside of school
9. Second hearse drives past emergency vehicles, stops near first
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Uvalde, Texas – 24 May 2022
10. Drone aerial of Robb Elementary School
STORYLINE:
The teenage gunman in the 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre entered school in Uvalde, Texas, as a bright learner before years of escalating academic and behavioral troubles that preceded him opening fire on a fourth-grade classroom, according to records released Monday.
The school files reveal in greater detail 18-year-old Salvador Ramos’ downward spiral that authorities have well documented since the attack that killed 19 children and two teachers. One assessment shows Ramos described as a “motivated thinker and learner” in kindergarten, but by middle school, he was suspended or written up multiple times for harassment, bullying and failing to meet the minimum statewide testing standards.
In October 2021 — seven months before the shooting — Ramos withdrew from high school because of “poor academic performance, lack of attendance" and records showed he had failing grades in nearly all classes.
The records are among thousands of pages released by the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District following a yearslong legal battle to withhold documents connected to one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history.
Many of the documents offer scant new revelations surrounding the attack and the gunman, whose troubled history has been laid out in previous state and federal investigations. Nor do the records — which do not include any video from the day of the shooting — shed light on the hesitant and widely criticized police response.
The documents include the personnel file of former Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo, one of two officers facing criminal charges over the slow law enforcement response, and emails to and from school administrators in the days and weeks after the attack.
At 11:40 a.m. on the day of the shooting, Arredondo received a text from a school district secretary noting that another employee reported hearing gunfire outside the school.
“They went ahead and locked themselves down,” the text to Arredondo read.
Arredondo and Adrian Gonzales, another former Uvalde school district officer, are the only responding officers who face criminal charges for their actions that day. They both have pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of child endangerment and abandonment and are scheduled for trial later this year.
Media organizations, including The Associated Press, sued the district and county in 2022 for the release of their records related to the mass shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers. A Texas appeals court in July upheld a lower court’s ruling that the records must be released.
The records are not the public’s first glimpse inside one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings and the slow law enforcement response that has been widely condemned. Last year, city officials in Uvalde released police body cam videos and recordings of 911 calls.
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