Just minutes before the Texas massacre, the 18-year-old gunman who opened fire at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children and two adults, posted three alarming posts on Facebook, warning of the impending devastation.
According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Salvador Ramos wrote about 30 minutes before his attack at Robb Elementary School, “I’m going to shoot my grandmother.”
Ramos kept his word and wrote a few minutes later that he’d “shot my grandmother.” His final post prophesied his final act of unimaginable violence: “I’m going to shoot an elementary school,” he wrote approximately 15 minutes before arriving on campus.
At a news conference, Abbott revealed the shooter’s final posts, claiming there was “no meaningful forewarning of this crime.”
They were private one-on-one chats, not public posts, according to Facebook.
The texts resemble texts Ramos allegedly made to a 15-year-old female acquaintance in Germany, who then shared them with CNN, in which he said he erupted because his grandma objected to his phone bill.
Ramos, on the other hand, lawfully purchased two AR-style rifles soon after his 18th birthday this month and looked to become furious and lonely after failing to graduate high school, according to friends and relatives.
“He would be very rude towards the girls sometimes, and one of the cooks, threatening them by asking, ‘Do you know who I am?’ And he would also send inappropriate texts to the ladies,” said the former co-worker, who did not want her name used.
“At the park, there’d be videos of him trying to fight people with boxing gloves. He’d take them around with him.”
Natalie B., 19, said she knew the shooter from high school and lives a block away from Ramos’ grandmother. “He had anger issues. People are saying he was bullied but I didn’t see that. He was more like the bully,” she told The Daily Beast.
Ramos’ grandfather, Ronald Reyes, told ABC News that Ramos skipped school last year. He spent much of his time alone in his room at his grandparents’ modest house in Uvalde.
“He didn’t talk very much,” said Reyes. Reyes added that Ramos moved out of his mom’s home after they had “problems.”
“My son wasn’t a violent person,” she claimed. “I had a good relationship with him. He kept to himself; he didn’t have many friends.” Ramos’ birthday, she added, was the last time they spoke. She gave him a card and “a Snoopy stuffed animal.”
However, the mother’s live-in boyfriend, 62-year-old Juan Alvarez, told NBC News that the youngster had a tumultuous relationship with Reyes. He had left her home following a disagreement about Wi-Fi.
“He was kind of a weird one. I never got along with him. I never socialized with him. He doesn’t talk to nobody,” he said. “When you try to talk to him he’d just sit there and walk away.”
On Tuesday, Salvador Ramos shot 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. This Texas Massacre is the second deadly mass shooting in the United States in only ten days, following a racist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.