New footage has revealed the blood-spattered interior of the home where Texas school shooter Salvador Rolando Ramos shot his grandmother in the face.
Independent journalist Ali Bradley shared the footage from inside the house in Uvalde, where 18-year-old Ramos began his deadly shooting spree on Tuesday by wounding his 66-year-old grandmother Celia Gonzalez.
‘There’s blood all over,’ said the shooter’s grandfather Rolando Reyes, as he gestured at an interior door frame. ‘There was a pool of blood here.’
After shooting his grandmother, who called 911, the gunman fled in her truck to nearby Robb Elementary, where he barricaded himself in a classroom and killed 19 kids and two teachers before being shot dead by police.
Reyes said that the bullet his grandson fired entered the side of his wife’s cheek and came out under her ear, but that she is expected to survive.
The grandmother was reportedly awake and communicating with family through writing on Wednesday.
Text messages that the gunman sent on Tuesday suggested that he became enraged with his grandmother in a dispute over his phone bill.
Ramos had reportedly been living with his grandparents for a few months, after moving out of his mother’s house on the other side of town due to instability in the household.
The shooter’s mother Adriana Reyes told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that she was ‘surprised’ her son opened fire in a horrific killing spree.
She admitted her son was a loner who ‘kept to himself and didn’t have many friends’ but shot down reports she had a toxic relationship with him.
Adriana Reyes did not address claims that her son had left her home to stay with her parents due to her struggles with drug addiction.
A week before the attack, the teen gunman had bought two AR-15 assault rifles and bragged about them on social media.
But grandfather Rolando Reyes revealed the family had no idea he legally purchased the two weapons, spending about $4,000 that he saved up from a job at Wendy’s.
On Thursday, new videos emerged along with preliminary accounts of the shooting timeline from authorities, suggesting up to an hour passed between the time the attack began and the moment a police tactical team took out the shooter.
In one video posted on Facebook by a man named Angel Ledezma, parents can be seen breaking through yellow police tape and yelling at officers to go into the building.
‘It’s already been an hour, and they still can’t get all the kids out,’ Ledezma said during the video.
Another video posted on YouTube showed officers restraining at least one adult. One woman can be heard saying, ‘Why let the children die? There’s shooting in there.’
‘We got guys going in to get kids,’ one officer is heard telling the crowd. ‘They’re working.’
A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety, Chris Olivarez, told Reuters that investigators were still trying to confirm a precise timeline, including how long Ramos remained barricaded inside the classroom.
One child told KENS 5 that he was able to hide under a desk, but that a girl who yelled out ‘help’ when police arrived was executed.
‘When the cops came, the cop said: “Yell if you need help!” And one of the persons in my class said ‘help.’ The guy overheard and he came in and shot her. The cop barged into that classroom. The guy shot at the cop. And the cops started shooting,’ the boy said.
One shocking video shows them even holding some parents back as they tried to get inside.
The footage shows a parent being pinned to the ground by an officer, while another carrying a taser stands guard nearby.
Other footages shows parents begging the cops: ‘What are you doing!? Get inside the building!’
According to Uvalde’s justice of the peace Eulalio Dia, anguished families waiting for news of their children had to provide DNA samples to help in the identification process.
‘Some of the children were not in good shape,’ Diaz told the El Paso Times.
Pressed Wednesday on how the teen was able to obtain the murder weapon, Texas Governor Greg Abbott brushed aside suggestions tougher gun laws were needed in his state — where attachment to the right to bear arms runs deep.
But in the shooting’s wake President Joe Biden — who will head to Uvalde in coming days — has called on lawmakers to take on America’s powerful gun lobby and enact ‘common sense gun reforms.’
The Uvalde shooting was the deadliest since 20 elementary-age children and six staff were killed at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.