Adriana Martinez Reyes, the mother of the Robb Elementary School shooter, was booked into jail on Wednesday (Picture: KSAT)
The mother of the teenage gunman who shot dead 19 Uvalde elementary students and two teachers was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill her boyfriend.
Adriana Martinez Reyes, 40, was taken into custody on Wednesday after posing the threat to kill a man she had been residing with, according to a police report.
While getting cuffed, Reyes said she was the mom of ‘the one that killed all of the children in the Uvalde Texas shooting’, state court records obtained by The New York Times on Friday.
Salvador Ramos, the gunman behind the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Texas, was shot dead only after nearly 400 police officers responded and 73 minutes into the ordeal.
The Robb Elementary School massacre resulted in the deaths of 19 students and two teachers (Picture: Getty Images)
Police went to Reyes’ home in Oklahoma City at 10am after receiving a call about her threat to kill her boyfriend.
The boyfriend told police that Reyes ‘became angry with him and told him before she moves out of this house she is going to kill him’, according to the report. Additionally, he said ‘he thinks that she will kill him while he sleeps and he is terrified of her’.
He was identified in court documents as VI Alvarez and told police that he was disabled.
After her arrest, Reyes called her boyfriend ‘crazy’. But she said she lived with him because ‘he is not that bad and I love him’.
The gunman’s mother moved from Uvalde, Texas, to Oklahoma City after the massacre (Picture: AP)
Reyes was charged with threatening to perform an act of violence and assault and battery. She was held at Oklahoma County Detention Center on $1,000 bail.
Uvalde residents said they had not see Reyes in the city about 80 miles south of San Antonio for a while after the mass shooting. It was not clear whether Reyes had moved permanently to Oklahoma City.
When a relative of an Uvalde victim confronted Reyes by chance on the streets almost a month after the massacre, she was recorded on video saying she knew Ramos was ‘a coward’.
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The suspect said she was the mother of ‘the one that killed all of the children in the Uvalde Texas shooting’.
