Texas Gunman's Grandma In Pain, 'May Never Be Able To Talk Again'

Uvalde -- The Texas school shooter's grandmother may never be able to talk again due to injuries caused after Salvador Ramos shot her in the face. Ramos shot his grandmother before carrying out the massacre at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24.

“The bullet went into Sally’s jaw just next to her mouth and shattered all her teeth,” Jason Ybarra, a second cousin of injured granny Celia “Sally” Martinez Gonzales, 66, told the New York Post on Sunday. “If the bullet was an inch in another direction, it would have blown her head off."

“She’s doing fairly well, considering what happened. But she may never be able to talk again,” Ybarra, 45, said, adding that Martinez Gonzales is currently only communicating by writing.

The woman underwent several surgeries for her wounds and there are more to be scheduled for the coming days. Ramos first shot his grandma and then headed to the Uvalde school where he killed 19 children and two teachers.

Rolando Reyes, the grandma's husband, told the New York Post on Thursday that she was “awake and all, but she’s in pain.”

“She had a notebook where she writes what she’s trying to say, but when we can’t make it out, she gets frustrated,” Reyes said.

Ramos had been staying with his grandparents for the last two months after he left his mother's place following a fight over a wifi connection. Family members and friends said that he had a hostile relationship with his mother.

Reyes said he was not aware his grandson had guns in the house. The gunman's parents have also spoken out about the tragedy.

“He was kind of a weird one. I never got along with him. I never socialized with him. He doesn’t talk to nobody,” Juan Alvarez, 62, who has been in a relationship with Salvador Rolando Ramos' mother said. “When you try to talk to him he’d just sit there and walk away.”

Ramos was killed by an off-duty agent with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol Tactical Unit and two law enforcement officers, authorities said.