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Jamie Landers

Police dispute claims Uvalde gunman was arrested for prior school shooting threats

DALLAS — In a Fox News interview Friday, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales claimed the Uvalde gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was arrested four years ago for threatening a school shooting. Police dispute those claims.

“If law enforcement, you know, identified him four years ago as a threat, we need to figure out why he wasn’t – you know, how he got removed from that,” Gonzales, R-Texas, said during the interview.

The Uvalde Police Department said on April 19, 2018, two teenagers — one 13 and one 14 — were “planning to conduct a school shooting” at Uvalde High School during their senior year, 2022, but both are currently in custody.

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