Shooter had no criminal record, called troubled

The Texas teenager who killed 19 kids and two teachers at an elementary school had no criminal record, but police were often called to his home, according to neighbors.

Salvador Ramos, 18, was also never treated by any mental health institutions, authorities said. But those who knew the teenager described him as troubled.

“He always seemed to take his anger out on the most innocent person in the room,” said Crystal Foutz, Ramos’ former classmate and co-worker at Whataburger. “He was really a loner, and the people he did hang out with stopped hanging with him because of those things.”

Ramos also sent disturbing messages to people who could not have possibly stopped him before he stormed into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday morning carrying two assault-style rifles.

“Ima go shoot up a elementary school rn,” Ramos wrote to a 15-year-old girl in Germany over a video-sharing app. The two had messaged previously, but the girl said she didn’t believe Ramos was capable of such a thing.

Minutes before that message, Ramos told the girl that he planned to, and then had, shot his grandmother. The grandmother was hospitalized and remained in critical condition Thursday.

And days before that, Ramos tagged a random young woman in California in an Instagram post of two guns, according to authorities.

“I barely know you and u tag me in a picture with some guns,” the woman replied on Instagram. “It’s just scary.”

Ramos frequently argued with his mother, to the point that he moved out two months ago after a particularly vicious fight about Wi-Fi. A neighbor said at least eight cops were at the home that day.

Though Ramos was initially part of this year’s graduating class at Uvalde High School, he frequently skipped school and was not set to graduate on time.

“I had an uneasy feeling sometimes, like, ‘What are you up to?” Ramos’ mother, Adriana Reyes, told ABC News Thursday. “He can be aggressive ... if he really got mad.”

But Ramos’ rage only turned deadly after he was able to purchase two rifles and loads of ammunition immediately after turning 18 years old.

After shooting his grandmother and crashing his vehicle outside Robb Elementary, Ramos was barricaded inside a classroom and massacring children while cops milled around outside.