Suspect in Uvalde attack sent chilling messages to teen he met online

Uvalde shooter reportedly posted gun photo 0:50 (CNN) — Minutes before his deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Salvador Ramos allegedly sent a series of chilling text messages to a teenage girl he met online, describing how he had been shot. to his grandmother and was about to “fill a primary school with bullets”.
According to screenshots reviewed by CNN and an interview with the teen who said she had been in contact with the shooter for weeks, Ramos had complained about her grandmother “being on the phone with AT&T on my phone.” “It’s annoying,” she wrote in the message. Six minutes later he wrote: “I just shot my grandmother in the head.” A few seconds later, he said, “I’m going to bullet-riddle an elementary school right now.” The message was sent at 6:21 pm CET, 11:21 am in Texas. That was the last message he sent to the girl. The 15-year-old, who lives in Frankfurt, Germany, recounts that she started chatting with Ramos on a networking app on May 9. Ramos sent the girl videos of her and discussed a plan to visit her in Europe, videos and text messages from her show. In one of her messages, she sent him a screenshot of a Google travel itinerary from a site near San Antonio, Texas. “I am going to visit you soon,” she wrote. She claims that Ramos told her on Monday that she had received a package of ammunition. She said that he described how the bullets would expand upon contact with someone. At some point, the girl questioned her plans. She claims the attacker told her it was a surprise and for her to “wait for it.” On Tuesday, at 11:01 am, Ramos called her and told her that he loved her, according to the teenager. Then, approximately five minutes later, at 11:06 am CT, she wrote him that she had shot her grandmother. The girl, whose mother authorized her interview, said she spoke daily with Ramos via FaceTime. She also said that she communicated with him through a live streaming app called Yubo and that she played games with him on the Plato game app. In her conversations, she mentions that he was curious about his life in Germany. “He seemed happy and comfortable talking to me,” the girl said. She claims the attacker told her that she spent a lot of time alone at home. However, there were some messages that made him alert. On one occasion, she says, the attacker claimed that he was “throwing dead cats into other people’s houses.” She says that she gave her the impression that he was a private person. “Whenever I talked to him,” she said, “he never had plans with friends.” Uvalde shooter would have published a photo of weapons 0:50 Other sinister messages on Instagram The 18-year-old attacker who opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, wrote to an Instagram user that he had “a little secret”, just hours before perpetrating the shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers, according to a screenshot of the messages posted on the platform. Three days before the attack, an Instagram account linked to attacker Salvador Ramos posted a photo of two rifles on a rug. The story tagged another Instagram account in the photo by his name. The user of the tagged Instagram account wrote in a post-shooting story that Ramos had tagged her and sent her a message out of the blue. The young woman, who did not include her name on her account and has since made it private, posted several screenshots showing the messages she said she exchanged with the attacker in the days leading up to the attack. slaughter. “What do your weapons have to do with me?” she asked him, according to the screenshots. “I am so confused.” “Thank you for tagging you,” Ramos told her, footage showed, and she replied, “I barely know you and you tag me in a photo with some guns.” In another message that appeared to have been sent the morning of the shooting, Ramos wrote “I’m about to do it” but did not say exactly what he would do. “I have a little secret,” he wrote in another message. “I want to tell you,” he added. In messages posted to her story before she made it private, the user said that she did not live in Texas and that she did not know Ramos. The only reason I answered her was because she was afraid of him. I wish I had stayed awake to at least try to talk him out of committing his crime,” she wrote. “I did not know, I did not know it”.