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.