The father of Salvador Ramos– the 18-year-old who last Tuesday murdered 21 people, including 19 children, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas–, apologized for the crime committed by his son. “must have killed me“, he claimed.
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In an interview with The Daily Beast, Salvador Ramos said “I want people to know that I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what my son did. I never expected him to do something like this”.
Salvador Ramos, 42, admitted that he had not spent much time with his son, also called Salvador, because he does not work in Uvalde and the pandemic coronavirus.
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Salvador’s mother (father) had cancer and he could not risk contracting COVID-19 for her. But for Salvador Jr., the precautions that his father was taking with the pandemic were a source of frustration and that for about a month he refused to talk to him.
“I will never see my son again”
“I will never see my son again“, lament. Salvador Jr. was killed approximately one hour after entering the school.
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“He should have killed me, you know, instead of doing something like he did to someone.”.
Salvador Jr. also had a bad relationship with his mother and dropped out of school before graduating this year.
Ramos Sr., who has lived with his girlfriend east of Uvalde for several years, insisted that his son was “a good person”. Although former school and co-workers have described Ramos as aggressive, his father pointed out that the boy dropped out of school “because they bullied him, because of his way of dressing. He was a silent person, who kept everything to himself. He didn’t bother anyone. People always teased him”.