Adriana Reyes, 42, spoke to DailyMail.com while visiting son Salvador Ramos's grave at a cemetery outside of San Antonio, Texas - 75 miles from the site of his deadly rampage in Uvalde.
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EXCLUSIVEMother of Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos says she believes her son is 'in heaven' and sees no point in apologizing to victims' families as 'it wouldn't bring their kids back, during visit to his gravesite in Texas
Uvalde gunman Salvador Ramos is now in heaven after God forgave him for his murderous rampage that killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers, his deeply religious mother is convinced.
And Adriana Reyes said she feels no need to apologize to the families of the dead.
'What will it accomplish? It's not going to bring back their kids and it won't change their minds on what they think of me or my son,' Reyes, 42, explained in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
She was talking as she visited her son's grave at a cemetery outside San Antonio,
Texas, 75 miles from the site of the shooting.
Last week, the police response to Ramos's rampage at the Robb Elementary School was slammed
in a Department of Justice report which said 'cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training' allowed the 18-year-old to kill so many.
As she placed plastic flowers, and a Guardian Angel candle on the grave, Reyes had the Lord's Prayer playing on her cell phone.
The items joined others including a cut-out football, a bottle of water, and a jar of Nutella, placed by the handful of relatives who know the location of
Ramos's cremains.
When asked if she believed her son was in heaven or hell, Reyes was confident of her answer.
'My son's spirit is in heaven,' she said. 'I also feel his spirit is with me as well.'
'I believe God has forgiven him for what he did,' she said, adding: 'The only people who are in hell are the ones who betray Jesus.'
She even said her son had expressed remorse for what he did in a dream that his sister Marisabelle had three days after the killings.
'A younger version of Salvador appeared in her dream, and he was crying to her, telling her he was sorry for what he had done.'
She knows the public isn't going to feel sorry for her and she understands why, adding: 'I know what my son did was a cowardly move.'
'I lost my son, and I miss my son and I love my son a lot. I don't know what went wrong or what he thought.
'I won't apologize to the community or to the families, there is no need to, I didn't do anything to them,' she continued.
Back at her home in Uvalde, Reyes said, 'I don't know what went wrong with my son, I never raised my son to use guns.
'I never talked about killing or guns to my son. It's not like he was abused or mistreated. Both of my children got everything they needed or wanted.
'I have no idea why he would do something outrageous like that, I guess built up anger.'
She then said she feels that her son, 'got involved into something he had no control over – signing up to commit a mass shooting via the dark web.'
She claimed the government 'red-flagged' her because her son looked up stuff on the internet.
'The red flag disseminated my whole life to everyone.'
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