Salvador Ramosthe alleged perpetrator of the shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead on Tuesday at a school in Uvaldein Texas, wrote about 15 minutes earlier in a Facebook message that was about to shoot in a schoolthe state governor reported on Wednesday.
In a press conference, the Republican Greg Abbott explained that about half an hour before the shooting, Ramos wrote on Facebook that he was going to shoot his grandmother.
A few minutes later, he posted another message in which he said he had already attacked his grandmother. -who was seriously injured-, and in a third messageposted a quarter of an hour before the school massacre, indicated that he was preparing to attack a school.
Following Abbott’s words, Metathe company that owns Facebook, clarified that They were not public messages, but private ones, sent to another user.
“The messages Governor Greg Abbott described were private, user-to-user, and were discovered after the terrible tragedy occurred. We are cooperating closely with law enforcement in their investigation,” a Meta spokesperson said on Twitter. Andy Stone.
On the other hand, Abbott explained that in addition to the 21 dead there are 17 injured by this eventthree of them police officers, although it was life-threatening.
He also indicated that The reason why Ramos entered the school and opened fire on the students and teachers is still unknown..
The Texan governor explained that the weapon used by Ramos was an AR15 rifleand that, as far as is known to date, the young had no criminal record or history of mental problems.
The attacker was killed by a Texas Border Patrol agent.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has indicated that Ramos is a US citizen and that he had been a student at the Uvalde secondary school. His name and surname are Hispanic, but at the moment his ancestry is unknown.
Texas State Senator, Roland Gutierreznoted Tuesday that Ramos was born in North Dakota, which has not been confirmed by any other source.
For his part, the spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, Chris Olivarezhas explained to the media that before entering the school, Ramos, who he was wearing a bulletproof vestshot his grandmother at home, who was hospitalized in serious condition Tuesday night.
Later, the young man got into a vehicle and was involved in an accident near Robb Elementary School. It was at that moment when the security forces received the first alert calls, indicating that an individual armed with a rifle was heading towards the school.
When the police arrived at the building, the aggressor opened fire on the agents and two were injuredrelated Olivarez, who added that immediately afterwards Ramos entered the school, entered a class and barricaded himself there, shooting at the students and two teachers..
In the end, a specialized police team arrived at the school, where they managed to enter the classroom and shot Ramos down.
On Tuesday, Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo said that Ramos acted alone and did not have the help of anyone.
Local media reported that Ramos had allegedly uploaded to an Instagram account, which has been suspended, photos of guns.
The newspaper The Washington Postwho has spoken with family and friends of the assailant, described Ramos as a lonely young man who was bullied at school for his trouble speaking in childhood and was raised in a broken home.
In recent years, I had violent reactions against closest people and strangers.
Authorities have said Ramos had recently turned 18 and shot his grandmother with guns purchased this month. Chain ABC News He specified, citing security sources, that Ramos turned 18 on May 16 and that six days later he legally bought two AR-15-type rifles.
Ramos’s grandfather Roland Reyes72, told ABC News that he had no idea his grandson had bought two AR-15 rifles or had them in his house.
Reyes pointed out that on Tuesday morning, before the shooting, he did not see anything unusual that predicted what was going to happen. According to him, the suspect had a small argument with the grandmother about the phone bill.
Ramos lived with his grandparents after having a fight with his mother and occupied one of the rooms of the house where he slept on a mattress on the floor, Reyes revealed to ABC News.