Texas shooter Ramos was 'bullied by a lot of people'

The teenage gunman in the Texas school shooting was bullied, cut his own face and fired a BB gun at people in the years leading up to the deadly attack, friends and family said.

- GUSTAF KILANDER

Salvador Ramos, 18, killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde before being shot dead by police. Friends and family say he had a difficult home life, that he was bullied over a childhood speech impediment and that he lashed out violently towards both friends and strangers - recently as well as in the past.

Ramos bought the weapons he used in the mass shooting earlier this month. Just days after he turned 18, he shot and critically injured his grandmother before going to Robb Elementary. The teenager had a rifle and was wearing a tactical vest, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

His grandfather said he was unaware Ramos kept high-powered assault rifles at home. "I didn't know he had weapons," Rolando Reyes told ABC News. "If I'd have known, I would have reported it. It still hasn't sunk in.”

Ramos's grandmother, believed to be 66-year-old Celia Martinez, is in serious condition but alive. Santos Valdez Jr, 18, told The Washington Post that he had known Ramos since their early days of elementary school, adding that they were friends until Ramos's behaviour began to grow worse.