Editing Evan Ramsey (section)

===Early life===
Evan Ramsey was born February 8, 1981 to Don and Carol Ramsey. When he was five years old, his father was imprisoned for 10 years after a police standoff and his mother became an alcoholic. Ramsey and his family soon after were forced to relocate to the Anchorage area after their house was set on fire. 

When he was seven, the Anchorage Department of Youth and Family Services removed Ramsey and his two brothers from his mother's custody and placed them in foster care. He was soon separated from his older brother, John, and lived in eleven different foster homes in the 3 years between 1988 and 1991. 

Ramsey and his younger brother were allegedly [[Child Abuse|abused]] by several foster parents. His younger brother, William, claimed that their foster brothers would pay other children to beat Evan for their amusement.<ref name=Rage/>

At age 10, Ramsey and both brothers (older brother, John and younger brother, William) settled in Bethel, Alaska, with their foster mother, Sue Hare, who later became their legal guardian. Ramsey has suffered from depression since early childhood, and attempted suicide when he was 10 years old.

Ramsey was not the first in his family to take a firearm into a public place. In October 1986, his father, [[Don Ramsey]], went to the ''Anchorage Times'' newspaper office armed with an Armalite AR-18 rifle, a revolver, and more than 210 rounds of ammunition. While inside the building, Don Ramsey began taking hostages and was involved in a brief standoff with police until he surrendered. His motive for doing this was because he was angered that the Times refused to publish a political letter he had written. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and was paroled just several weeks before his son Evan perpetrated the school shooting.<ref name=Rage/> Also, a week before Evan's attack, his older brother was arrested for armed robbery.