Ex-Uvalde Resident Charged with Making Threats Against Community

Victoria Gabriela Rodríguez-Morales, who claimed to be in a relationship with the Uvalde school shooter, faces 13 counts of interstate threats.

Victoria Gabriela Rodríguez-Morales, a 19-year-old former resident of Uvalde, Texas, has been arrested in Puerto Rico and charged with 13 counts of making interstate threats towards people and institutions in Uvalde.
Rodríguez-Morales allegedly used her mother’s and other relatives’ phones to repeatedly call and send threatening emails to a number of Uvalde public institutions, including schools, hospitals and the police department.
She claimed in some online comments that she had been in a romantic relationship with the 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers at the Uvalde school on May 24, 2022, though their relationship has not been confirmed.
Rodríguez-Morales was previously arrested as a minor in 2018 for making similar threats and was placed in juvenile detention. She continued making threats after her release in 2020 and her subsequent move to Puerto Rico.
According to federal prosecutors, at least one of Rodríguez-Morales’ threats resulted in the temporary closing of a school in Texas.