Lewis Ramsey

"I came this close to flushing two years of sobriety down the toilet tonight. Not just because Chelsea died, but because I knew that they were gonna cancel that ceremony. See, tomorrow night, I was gonna tell people what I did. And... I knew that... I would be arrested as an accomplice. I knew it, but... I had to. This is my final amends."

Lewis Stuart Ramsey is the accomplice of school shooter and bomber Randy Slade. He appeared in the Season Seven episode Painless.

History
Ramsey lived as an outcast in North Valley High School. At some point during his time there, in 2001, he became acquainted with popular yet psychopathic student Randy Slade and the two began planning a massacre together, forming a list of people they would specifically target when they took action. Ramsey signed the computer-written list "all the LoSeRs in this God-forsaken school", the capitalized letters being his initials, this being left for the police to find. Excited to be acquainted with Slade, Ramsey followed his orders to the last detail, supplying him with SEMTEX, which his father's construction company gave him access to. One day, during lunch, Ramsey began smoking pot in the school's parking lot, not realizing that Slade was committing his massacre in the cafeteria. In the end of the shooting, Slade detonated the SEMTEX bomb, killing himself and ten other students.

Though he had posted his plan on the Internet before carrying it out, Slade didn't mention Ramsey's involvement, allowing him to go on with his life unnoticed. Also, because SEMTEX wasn't publicly available and Slade wouldn't have had access to it, the FBI suspected that he had an accomplice, but they couldn't prove it, undoubtedly missing Ramsey's intentional message in his and Slade's victim list. Ramsey eventually began a relationship with one of the massacre's survivors, Chelsea Grant, and also entered a rehabilitation program for the drinking problem he established.

In Painless, after one of Slade's survivors, Robert Adams, murders Chelsea as part of his revenge scheme, the BAU tracked down Ramsey as he was in Chelsea's apartment with her minutes before she was killed. Ramsey denied any responsibility for Chelsea's murder, but admits his involvement in Slade's massacre. He reveals to Hotch and Rossi that he planned to attend the memorial to Slade's victims and announce to the attendants of what he had done, all the while knowing that he would be consequently arrested as an accomplice, as means of making amends. Ramsey wasn't seen in the rest of the episode, but he was indefinitely incarcerated for his involvement with Slade's massacre.

Appearances

 * Season Seven
 * "Painless"