Harrowing email shines light on Uvalde school shooting

12 Aug 2025 • 5:53 PM MYT
The Independent
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  • The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has released over 1,500 pages of new files regarding the May 2022 Robb Elementary School mass shooting.
  • The documents include details on the gunman, Salvador Ramos, revealing his decline from a promising student to one who struggled and eventually abandoned his education.
  • Ramos, who shot 19 children and two teachers dead, was described as a “a remarkable little boy” in kindergarten, but by middle school had been suspended or written up multiple times.
  • The files also contain a harrowing email sent by fourth-grade teacher Lynn Deming, who described being covered in blood after she was hit by shrapnel.
  • “I tried to stay calm for my students,” she wrote. “I needed my students to hear that they were loved in case it was the last thing they ever heard.”

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