By JENNIFER SMITH, CHIEF REPORTER and JOSH BOSWELL and ALAN BUTTERFIELD IN UVALDE, TEXAS, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Texas Republican Tony Gonzales has retracted his unfounded claim that Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos was arrested for a school shooting plot in 2018 after blaming the authorities for ‘letting him slip through the cracks.’
On Friday morning at 7.33am, Gonzales – a pro 2nd amendment Republican – insisted that Ramos was arrested in 2018 when he was underage for a plot to shoot up a school in Uvalde.
‘This wasn’t hearsay. I got this late last night: the shooter was arrested years ago, four years ago, for having this plan for basically saying, for saying, you know, when I’m a senior in 2022, I am going to shoot up a school.’
‘Something fell between the cracks between then and now to allow this to happen. We need to shake out all the facts,’ he said during an appearance on FOX News…
