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He Liked to Torture Animals

Insights into the Uvalde shooter and other mass murderers

Shefali O'Hara
3 min readJun 1, 2022
Photo by Sander Sammy on Unsplash

On last Tuesday, May 24th, 2022, Salvador Ramos allegedly shot his grandmother in the face before driving her truck towards Robb Elementary School, which was about a mile from her home. He crashed the vehicle and then started shooting in the parking lot of a funeral home before crossing the street and jumping the fence into the school. There he shot to death 19 children and two teachers.

One thing that has come to light after this horrific event which should not surprise anyone — Ramos liked to hurt animals.

The 18-year-old, according to Ramos’ classmates and family, liked to make violent threats and torture animals.

“Let me tell you about Salvador,” says Jamie Arellano in an interview with the Daily Beast. “He would go to the park and try to pick on people and he loved hurting animals.” Arellano was a classmate of Ramos’ at Uvalde High School.

According to Arellano, Ramos was not bullied, but rather he bullied others. Arellano, in his interview, recounted a time he saw Ramos beat a little dog senseless.

Ramos was also a regular user of Yubo, which is a social media site based in Paris. In addition to discussing his plans for a mass shooting, which other Yubo users claimed…

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Shefali O'Hara
Shefali O'Hara

Written by Shefali O'Hara

Cancer survivor, Christian, writer, engineer. BSEE from MIT, MSEE, and MA in history. Love nature, animals, books, art, and interesting discussions.

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