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Salvador Ramos, suspect responsible for shooting in Uvalde, Texas. File photo
The Texas school shooter who killed Salvador Ramos threatened 19 children and 2 teachers. on several occasions on social networks with committing shootings and raping girls, but most users did not pay much attention to him, considering it not very credible.
US media such as the Washington Post, Fox News or CNN published this Saturday testimonies of dozens of users of social networks, especially the live video Yubo, who described Ramos, 18, as habitually aggressive and threatening, especially against women.
All these witnesses are teenagers, Yubo’s main audience, and they explained that some users of the social network had already jokingly referred to Ramos before the incident as “the Yubo school attacker”, because of his posing. grim and his violent comments.
However, many Internet users chose not to report him, considering that his words were not excessively out of tune with those of other teenage users on the internet. networks and therefore perceive it as not very credible.
Although some users do. alerted Yubo to Ramos’s threats, his account remained & oacute; It’s open.
Yubo has about 60 million users worldwide, almost all of them under 25 years old, and many of them teenagers.
On Tuesday, the day of the shooting, Ramos sent a message. a private message to one of his Facebook contacts in the warning him that he was going to shoot his grandmother ; another later in which he explained that he had already done it, and a third in which he announced that he was going to shoot up a school, all within an interval of less than half an hour .