The woman is in her car when she is interviewed. “I have no words for it”, Martinez says very emotionally. “I don’t know what he was thinking. He had his reasons for doing what he did. Please don’t judge him,” she begs in Spanish. “I just want the innocent children who died to forgive me.” She then tearfully asks forgiveness from the families of the victims. “Forgive my son. I know he had his reasons.”
Salvador Ramos did not have a good relationship with his mother, it was previously known. That was also the reason he moved in with his grandmother. Before Ramos opened fire in elementary school, he also shot his grandmother.
Last Tuesday at 11:33 am Ramos walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde armed. It was nearly noon when he carried out a horrific massacre in a classroom. Nineteen children aged 7 to 10 were shot dead and two teachers also did not survive the hail of bullets. The shooter was not knocked out until 12:51 p.m. The fact that the local police did not immediately intervene is met with a lot of criticism. Authorities have meanwhile admitted that the police made a “wrong decision”.
At the end of last week, the father of the 18-year-old gunman also reacted to the cruel act of his son. “He should have shot me rather than inflicted a massacre,” Salvador Ramos senior, 42, told the American news website ‘The Daily Beast’. “I want the world to know how much I regret what my son did.” According to the man, the teenager was bullied for wearing the same cheap clothes every day. That would also be the reason why the boy finally decided to give up school.