Bullet-Grazed Hat Worn By Hero Agent During Shootout With Texas School Shooter

The agent, who has not been named, is based in Del Rio Sector in south Texas and the agency noted that many of the agents have children who attend that school.

'Many of our local CBP personnel live in Uvalde; they call this community home, and they work to protect their family, friends, and neighbors every single day,' CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus said in a statement. 

In a separate statement, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said: 'Without hesitation, [agents] put themselves between the shooter and students to end the bloodshed and administer medical aid. Without question, their heroism yesterday saved lives.'

'A Border Patrol Agent was injured in the crossfire yesterday and we know the loss and trauma from this tragedy will continue to impact many other CBP families for a long time to come.' 

Ramos, the shooter who killed 19 students at Robb Elementary School, was obsessed with guns and worked at Wendy's to save approximately $4,000 for the weapons, ammunition, and a tactical-style vest.

Ramos' former coworker described the school shooter as a "rude, creepy, and scruffy" individual who she would avoid because he felt dangerous.

Grace Cruz, also 18, claimed to The Sun that she worked with the mentally ill' adolescent at a fast-food restaurant in Uvalde, Texas, just a few miles from Robb Elementary School.

Ramos allegedly openly discussed using the money he earned at Wendy's to buy guns and ammo, and he suddenly quit' weeks before the massacre, according to her.

'He told us he was saving up money for guns and ammo. We would ask him: "Why would you spend your money on that, spend it on a car or something useful,"' Cruz said. 'I guess once he got enough money, he quit and stopped showing up.'

Ramos shot his grandmother, with whom he shared a home, and then went on a killing spree at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday.

Before the tragic incident, he had purchased two AR-15 assault rifles, bragged about them on social media, and intended to conduct an atrocity.

His grandfather disclosed earlier on Wednesday that his family had no idea he had legally purchased the two weapons last week.

Ramos worked in Wendy's drive-thru and was in charge of passing out orders to customers, according to Cruz, but she believes he wasn't very good at it.

Customers would complain about him, she claims, and he had a shabby appearance.

'He didn't smell, but he was scruffy. Something was off about him. I didn't feel safe around him, so I always kept my distance even though we worked the same hours,' she told The Sun. 

'He quit just two weeks ago, but there were a couple of times before that where he almost got fired for being rude.'

'He had mental problems, emotional problems, personal problems, every type of problem,' she said. 

Ramos, according to Adrian Mendes, one of the restaurant's evening supervisors, kept alone himself a lot.

'He felt like the quiet type, the one who doesn't say much. He didn't socialize with employees,' Mendes told CNN. 'He just worked, got paid, and came in to get his check.'

'He would be very rude towards the girls sometimes, and one of the cooks, threatening them by asking, 'Do you know who I am?'' the young woman, who worked with Ramos until March, told The Daily Beast. 'And he would also send inappropriate texts to the ladies.'

'At the park, there'd be videos of him trying to fight people with boxing gloves. He'd take them around with him,' she added.

In the bloodbath Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Ramos utilized an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle. Authorities said he had lawfully purchased two such rifles just days before the incident, shortly after his 18th birthday.

According to state Sen. John Whitmire, who was briefed by investigators, one of the pistols was acquired on May 17 at a federally regulated dealer in the Uvalde area. The next day, Ramos ordered 375 rounds of ammunition, and on Friday, he purchased the second rifle.

Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother at her house on Tuesday morning, then escaped. When she staggered outside and neighbors discovered she had been shot in the face, they contacted 911, according to Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine.

Students were watching the Disney movie 'Moana' when they heard several loud pops and a bullet shattered a window, according to Dillon Silva, whose nephew was in a nearby classroom. Their teacher saw the attacker stride past the door a few moments later.

'Oh, my God, he has a gun!' the teacher shouted twice, according to Silva. 'The teacher didn't even have time to lock the door,' he said.

A tactical team broke inside the classroom where the attacker was holed up and was met with gunfire from Ramos, who was shot and killed by the tactical team.

The incident claimed the lives of 19 youngsters and two teachers.

According to CNN, Ramos appears to have been sending real-time messages to a 15-year-old German girl he had met online just before the attack and as he shot his grandmother.

Ramos called her at 11:01 a.m., told her he loved her, and then shot his grandmother 20 minutes later in a dispute over his phone bill, according to the girl.

'Ima does something to her rn [right now]' wrote Ramos in a message at 11.10 am Texas time. He added a few minutes later: 'She's on the phone with AT&T abojt [sic] my phone...It's annoying’

At 11.21 am he wrote 'I just shot my grandma in her head' and added in his final message: 'Ima go shoot up an elementary school.'

After crashing his grandmother's truck outside a local school and exchanging gunfire with cops as he surged into the school, the first 911 call came in just 10 minutes later.

Ramos had sent her a selfie and planned to fly to Europe and meet her this summer, she claimed.

The direct messages appear to be the same Facebook communications that Texas Governor Greg Abbott mentioned in a press conference on Wednesday, wrongly referring to them as "posts."

Ramos posted about 30 minutes before the bloodbath that he was going to shoot his grandma, then that he had shot the woman, according to Abbott.

'The third post, maybe less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school, was 'I'm going to shoot an elementary school,'' said Abbott.

Meta spokesman Andy Stone wrote in a tweet: 'The messages Gov. Abbott described were private one-to-one text messages that were discovered after the tragedy occurred.' 

'We are closely cooperating with law enforcement in their ongoing investigation.' 

The shooting occurred just days before the start of the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Houston.

At a forum on Friday, the governor and both of Texas' U.S. senators, all Republicans, were set to appear.