The desperate father of 18-year-old Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos was photographed in public for the first time Thursday since his son killed 19 children and two Rob elementary school teachers earlier in the week.
The photos show the 42-year-old father with tears – also named Salvador Ramos – embracing a visitor on his front porch the same day he broke his silence over his son’s massacre.
“I never expected my son to do something like that,” the father told the Daily Beast.
“He just had to kill me, you know, instead of doing something like someone.”
The elder Ramos also apologized for his son’s horrific actions.
The father told the Daily Beast that he had not been much in his son’s life in the months before the massacre, which he said was due to his work away from Uwalde and the pandemic.
Salvador Ramos apparently left high school because he was harassed for his clothes, according to his father.salv8dor_ / Instagram Salvador Ramos, who named his son after him, looks emotional. Coleman-Raynor
He said he was also far from his son because of the pandemic, as he did not want to expose his own mother – who suffers from cancer – to the virus. COVID-19 restrictions strained the duo’s relationship, with his son refusing to talk to him about a month ago.
He claims that his son “was a good man” who was bullied at school because of his clothes and left.
“He was a quiet man, close to himself. He didn’t bother anyone. “People always bothered him,” said the father.
Salvador Ramos described his son as a “quiet man.” Coleman-Rayner The elder Ramos said he had a strained relationship with his son. Coleman-Rayner Ramos said his son should have killed him instead of the children at Robb Elementary School. Coleman- Raynor
The last of the shootings at a school in Texas
Ramos shot his 66-year-old grandmother in the face before breaking into a fourth-grade classroom at Uwalde School and setting fire to one of the deadliest mass shootings in Texas history.
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