How Uvalde killer’s family and officials missed red flags before massacre

Report that draws from interviews with family members, phone information and testimony given to lawmakers offers the most complete account yet of shooter

Before shooting 21 people to death at Robb elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the killer had threatened suicide, menaced women, stockpiled guns and accessories and made a video of himself riding around while holding a dead cat, according to a preliminary report from a committee of Texas state lawmakers investigating the massacre.

The story of 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos - as portrayed in the report released Sunday - is one of red flags that caretakers and officials of all kinds largely missed until he went to his former fourth grade classroom and murdered 19 students as well as two teachers on 24 May in one of the deadliest school shootings ever in America.