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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Mon May 30, 2022, 07:21 PM May 2022

Uvalde school shooter's grandmother may never be able to speak again after he shot her in the face,

The Texas school shooter's first victim, his own grandmother whom he shot in the face, may never be able to talk again, a relative told The New York Post.

The 18-year-old gunman lived with his grandmother in Uvalde, Texas. He shot her on May 24 shortly before he drove to Robb Elementary School, barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom, and opened fire. He killed 19 children and two adults before he was shot dead by US Border Patrol agents.

His grandmother, Celia "Sally" Martinez Gonzales, is lucky to be alive, her second cousin, Jason Ybarra, told the Post.

"The bullet went into Sally's jaw just next to her mouth and shattered all her teeth," Ybarra said. "If the bullet was an inch in another direction, it would have blown her head off."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/uvalde-school-shooters-grandmother-may-112343141.html

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Uvalde school shooter's grandmother may never be able to speak again after he shot her in the face, (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2022 OP
The article says it is unclear what gun he used to shoot her with. LiberatedUSA May 2022 #1
Well, that's just awful. maxsolomon May 2022 #2
not sure it's confirmed but a pay plan devised by Daniel defense, the gun maker Shellback Squid May 2022 #4
No. He worked at Wendy's WarGamer May 2022 #7
no, I mean a financing program offered by daniel defense..lol Shellback Squid May 2022 #8
DD does offer that financing... through a third party. WarGamer May 2022 #10
Kill now, pay never CanonRay May 2022 #5
Well, Her Daughter Can Just Tell Her That Her Son "Had Reasons For Doing What He Did" SoCalDavidS May 2022 #3
Uggh. Hearing the daughter speak like that--as though SHE and her son were the victims hlthe2b May 2022 #6
I Sensed Some Remorse From The Grandfather SoCalDavidS May 2022 #9
Where was/is the executioner's father in all this? niyad Jun 2022 #11
 

LiberatedUSA

(1,666 posts)
1. The article says it is unclear what gun he used to shoot her with.
Mon May 30, 2022, 07:37 PM
May 2022

He used the handgun. If he had shot her in the face with the AR-15, she would be dead.

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
3. Well, Her Daughter Can Just Tell Her That Her Son "Had Reasons For Doing What He Did"
Mon May 30, 2022, 07:40 PM
May 2022

Because he was a good kid after all, according to Mom.

hlthe2b

(102,298 posts)
6. Uggh. Hearing the daughter speak like that--as though SHE and her son were the victims
Mon May 30, 2022, 08:11 PM
May 2022

made my stomach turn and my skin crawl.

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
9. I Sensed Some Remorse From The Grandfather
Mon May 30, 2022, 11:32 PM
May 2022

But like you said, the mom made it all about her and her son, playing the victim card.

And the mom bears plenty of blame, for being a drug addict which created a dysfunctional home in the first place, and perhaps contributed to the son's delinquency.

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