“I’m sorry for what my son did. He had to kill me.” It is the outburst of the father of the killer of the elementary school of Uvalde, Texas where the young Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two teachersbefore being killed by the police himself.
In an interview with the Daily Beastthe man says he is surprised at what happened: “I never expected such a thing from my son. He should have killed me instead of doing what he did”, confesses Salvador Ramos senior, who has the same name as the killer son .
Texas, 18-year-old perpetrator of the massacre for more than an hour inside the school
27 Maggio 2022
Il Daily Beast reached the man in the garden of his current partner’s house, where the man has lived for years now.
Ramos was at work when he was contacted by his mother (while his maternal grandmother was also seriously injured by her grandson, who shot her before breaking into the school) to inform him of the shooting. “They killed my little man – he then added interrupted more face with tears -. I will no longer see my son, as the other parents will no longer see theirs and this hurts me,” he admits now.