Uvalde school district releases records for 2022 classroom shooting

Austin, Texas – The teenage shooter in the massacre of the primary school of Robb 2022 entered school in Uvalde, Texas, as a brilliant learning before years of reception of academic and behavioral disorders which preceded him to open fire on a fourth year classroom, according to the archives published Monday.

School files reveal in more detail the downward spiral of Salvador Ramos, 18, which the authorities have documented well since the attack which killed 19 children and two teachers. An evaluation shows that Ramos has described as a motivated “thinker and learner” in kindergarten, but in college, he has been suspended or written several times for harassment, intimidation and not comply with the minimum state test standards.

In October 2021 – Seven months before the shooting – Ramos retired from the secondary school due to “mediocre school performance, lack of attendance” and files showed that it had failed in almost all classes.

The files are among thousands of pages published by the independent school district Uvalde Consolidated after a legal battle of a year to retain documents related to one of the deadliest class attacks in American history.

Many documents offer few new revelations surrounding the attack and the shooter, whose troubled history has been presented in previous and federal surveys. The files – which do not include a video either from the day of the shooting – highlighted the hesitation and the response of the very criticized police.

The documents include the personal file of the former Uvalde school police chief, Pete Arredondo, one of the two officers faced with criminal charges for the slow response from the police, and emails to school administrators and from school administrators in the days and weeks following the attack.

At 11:40 a.m. on the day of the shooting, Arredondo received an SMS from a secretary at the school school noting that another employee said he had heard gunshots outside the school.

“They went ahead and locked themselves up,” read Arredondo’s text.

Arredondo and Adrian Gonzales, another former Uvalde school district officer, are the only officers who respond to criminal accusations for their actions that day. They both pleaded not guilty to several charges for endangering children and abandonment and are planned to be tried later this year.

The media organizations, including the Associated Press, continued the district and the county in 2022 for the publication of their files related to the mass shooting which killed 19 students and two teachers. A Texas Court of Appeal in July confirmed the decision of a lower court according to which the files were to be published.

The files are not the public’s first overview in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country and the slow response from the police which was largely condemned. Last year, city officials in Uvalde published police and 911 calls for police.

The academic files of Salvador Ramos showed a student who, as a kindergarten, was described as “a remarkable little boy” who was a “very fierce worker”, but he continued to be suspended several times in secondary school and withdrew from high school due to “bad academic performances”.

The files have shown a student by keeping more from academic and behavioral problems, reduces classes and confrontations with teachers by the college. In ninth year, it was classified as “at risk”.

The files align with the previous results published by the investigators, including a report by the House Texas 2022 which established how the shooter “refused a dark path” after having abandoned the school and is more and more isolated from the year preceding the shooting.

Arredondo was the target of a large part of the blame for the response to the police who saw nearly 400 local, state and federal officers wait more than 70 minutes before facing the shooter in a classroom filled with children and teachers who are dead and injured while parents outside begged them to enter.

Arredondo emails after filming show a chief who asked himself questions about security during district events, concerns about someone who liked Ramos’ social media publications and a note of a district administrator 12 days after the attack that asked: “How are you today?”

The Uvalde district placed Arredondo on leave paid on June 22 in a letter that told him that he should not enter any district building, go to a campus or attend a school activity. The letter also ordered Arredondo to cooperate with any investigation and not to discuss the investigation with district employees.

Text messages between a group of UVALDE school staff show in the days following the shooting, officials briefly noted criticism of the answer but have avoided responding by SMS. An exchange noted a law for application of the law which included a 77 -minute delay. Another referred to a press article where a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson was in a hurry on the delayed response.

“We could attend a huge battle in the DPS,” wrote Kenneth Mueller, director of district students. Hal Harrell, the superintendent, responds with a text to call him to “plan this”.

On June 12, a fourth year teacher who was inside the school during the shooting told Harrell in an e-mail that surviving staff were ignored by the district.

“I was able to hear about the future of the school I love thanks to a press conference,” wrote Lynn Deming. She described the taking of the students of the recess when they heard shots, then bullets “went through my windows”.

Deming said that she had tried to lie down in front of her students so that she could block them shots.

“I had bursts of shells on my back since he had pulled in my window, I had blood on the back of me, but I tried to stay calm for my students,” she wrote. “I needed my students to hear that they were loved in case it was the last thing they have ever heard.”

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Juan Lozano in Houston; John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas; Claudia LAUER in Philadelphia; Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington; And Jesse Bedayn in Denver contributed.