The mother of the young man who shot dead 21 students and adults at Robb Elementary School in Texas, has been arrested by police in Oklahoma.
Police records show that the Oklahoma City police arrested Adriana Martinez Reyes, and took her into custody, after she allegedly threatened to kill the man she was living with.
According to the documents, during her arrest, Ms Reyes, 40, said she was the mother of “the one that killed all of the children in the Uvalde, Texas, shooting”.
Ms Reyes, who is the mother of Salvador Ramos, who killed 19 students and two teachers on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.
The Uvalde Leader-News said that in June 2022 she was arrested on charges of criminal trespass and a warrant for driving with an invalid license.
It said when she left the Uvalde County Jail in July, victims’ family members confronted her near the Uvalde County Fairplex.
She was filmed shouting back at them: “You have no right to judge my son. No, you don’t! No, you don’t. May God forgive you all.”
She had to be escorted away by police.
Little was known about the family of the 18-year-old Uvalde shooter, who shot his grandmother in the face before he launched the assault on his former school.
In the days after the May 2022 shoooting, Ms Reyes sobbed in her car and begged for forgiveness for what her son had done.
“I have no words to say, I don’t know what he was thinking,” she told the Spanish-language station Televisa.
“He had his reasons for doing what he did. Please don’t judge him. I only want the innocent children who died to forgive me. Forgive me, forgive my son. I know he had his reasons.”
More than a month after the shooting, the shooter’s grandmother, Celia Gonzalez, 66, was released from hospital. It emerged that days before the incident, she had tried to get rid of the gun he used.
