Salvador Ramos wrote via private Instagram chat to a young California girl in which he seemed to hint at what he was about to do at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde
Salvador Ramos
The 18-year-old Texas shooter who killed 19 children and two teachers sent a chilling message to a girl claiming to have “a little secret” to tell.
Salvador Ramos wrote to the California woman in a private Instagram chat in which he seemed < b>hints at what was going to happen at Robb de Uvalde Elementary School.
The young man asked him to post photos of two of his AR-15s, as well as an ammunition magazine.
He also sent her a disturbing message at 9:16 a.m. Tuesday, just two hours before the attack took place, saying: “I’m going to vent.”.
Salvador Ramos’s Instagram conversation with the girl
When the shooting started, it was learned that he had also tagged her in a featured post on his page with photos of their weapons.
Ramos’ messages to the girl on Instagram on May 12 already hinted that the shooter was up to something.
Ramos wrote to him from his @sal8dor_ account: “You are going to republish my photos of weapons”, along which she replied: “What do your weapons have to do with me?”.
“I just wanted to tag you,” he replied. Then, at 5:43 a.m. on Tuesday, @salv8dor_ messaged her and said, “I’m ready.”.
The girl she asked “about what”, to which he replied: “I’ll tell you before 11″. He stated that she would send him a message in an hour and urged her to reply.
“I have a little secret I want to tell you,” she wrote with a smiley face emoji covering her mouth. “Thanks for tagging you,” she added.
“No, it’s just that it scares me. I barely know you and you tag me in a photo with some guns,” she replied.
Salvador Ramos was 18 years old
The perpetrator of Tuesday’s massacre at an elementary school was a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied for a speech impediment in his childhood< /b>, had a tense home life and lashed out violently at peers and strangers recently and over the years, friends and family said.
Santos Valdez Jr., 18, said he had known Ramos since early elementary school. They were friends, he said, until Ramos ‘s behavior began to deteriorate.
They used to play video games like Fortnite and < i> Call of Duty . But then Ramos changed. Once, he said Valdez , Ramos he stopped at a park where they often played basketball and had cuts all over his face. First he said a cat scratched his face.
The weapons used by Salvador Ramos
“Then he told me the truth, that he had cut his face with knives over and over again,” Valdez said. “I said to myself, ‘You’re crazy, brother, why would you do that?.” Ramos said he was doing it for fun, Valdez recalled.
In middle school and high school, Ramos was the victim of bullying for having a stutter and a strong lisp, friends and family said.
Stephen Garcia, who considered himself Ramos‘s best friend in eighth grade, said that Ramosdidn’t have it easy at school. “He was harassed a lot, by many people,” García said. “For social networks, for games, for everything”.
“He was the nicest boy, the most shy. He just needed to come out of his shell.”
He once posted a photo of himself wearing black eyeliner, Garcia said, which sparked a number of comments using a derogatory term for a gay person.