• The Texas Department of Public Safety Director acknowledged that the promise of fame may have played a role in the Uvalde school shooting.

Despite the 18-year-old gunman’s earlier “abhorrent behavior” and animal torture being generally known in the tiny community of 17,000 people. No one reported to law authorities.

During his testimony, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steve McCraw recognized that social media and the promise of immediate international fame may have influenced 18-year-old Salvador Ramos’ decision to conduct mass violence at Robb Elementary School on May 24.

“How many times did they say he was the one they were concerned about in all of these interviews?” McCraw however recently approached by Republican state senator Paul Bettencourt of Texas.

“Quite a few times. One of our teachers expressed concern about him on a regular basis “According to McCraw. “He was the student who frightened her the most.

The discoveries of Ramos’ troubling conduct from at least a half-dozen people came after the shooting, according to McCraw. They never reported to police enforcement beforehand.

He also said that numerous neighbors saw Ramos carrying a bag of dead animals during questioning. Despite what Bettencourt described as “animal mistreatment” and “abhorrent behavior,” the school district and police enforcement had no record of it prior to the shooting.

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You mentioned notoriety a few times, so let me ask you about it in terms of social media. It appeals to men’s natural need to make their mark, to be significant, to have a purpose, to be someone.

McCraw displayed how the door to one of the classrooms remained unlocked during the hearing on Tuesday, but Uvalde police officers waited in the corridor and never attempted to access it.