The social network Meta qualified the words of the governor of Texas about the author of the shooting and assured that the alert published by the attacker was part of a private message
Salvador Ramos, author of the massacre in Texas
The author of the shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead on Tuesday at a school in Uvalde (Texas, USA) warned about 15 minutes earlier in a Facebook message that he was about to shoot at a school, reported this Wednesday the state governor.
In a press conference, Republican Greg Abbott explained that approximately half an hour before the shooting, Salvador Ramos -as the attacker has been identified- wrote on Facebook that he was going to shoot his grandmother.
A few minutes later, published another in which he said that he had already attacked his grandmother -who was seriously injured-, and in a third message, published a quarter of an hour before the massacre at the school, he indicated that he was preparing to attack a school.
“I’m going to shoot my grandmother,” wrote Salvador Rolando Ramos 30 minutes before arriving at Robb Elementary School.
He then posted: “I shot my grandmother. I’m going to walk into an elementary school and shoot”.
Meta, the company that ownsFacebook, qualified the words of the governor of Texas about the author of the shooting and assured that the alert published on the social network by the attacker was part of a private message.
Salvador Ramos< p class=”paragraph”>“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,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone said on Twitter.
On the other hand, Abbott explained that in addition to the 21 dead there are 17 wounded by this event, three of them police officers, although there is no fear for their lives.
The Texas governor also detailed that the weapon used by Ramos was an AR15 rifle, and that, as far as is known to date, the young man had no criminal record or a history of mental problems.
The attacker was killed by a Texas Border Patrol agent.
Among the identified victims, there are several 10-year-old children and two teachers Hispanic. The first to be identified was the teacher Eva Mireles, 44, who worked as a special education teacher at Robb Elementary School, where the shooting took place.
Mireles was identified on social media as one of the victims by the mother of one of her former students, Audrey García.
The other deceased teacher is Irma García, as told to the television channel NBC by his son, Christian García.
Texas Governor Gregg Abbott joined by US Senator Ted Cruz as he speaks to the media at Uvalde High School, the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde , Texas, USA, on May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello REFILE –
The teacher had been teaching at the school for 23 years and, according to her son’s version, she became a shield to protect his students during the shooting.
The first student to be publicly identified by his family was Xavier López, 10 years old.
Lopez and her mother had been together during an awards ceremony at the school on Tuesday morning, just hours before the shooting occurred.
Also 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, whose father, Ángel Garza, had posted a message on Facebook Tuesday in the hours immediately following the shooting, asking for help finding his daughter.
On the same Tuesday night, Garza updated her message on the social network indicating that the little girl “had already been found” and was “flying with the angels in heaven.”
Uziyah Garcia, victim Texas massacre
Another of the fatalities was José Flores, 10, whose uncle, Christopher Salazar, told the media that his nephew loved playing baseball and going to school, and that he loved his parents.
“ He was a very happy little boy. He enjoyed laughing and having a good time,” he assured.
Other victims identified so far were of the same age: Rogelio Torres, Makenna Lee Elrod, Tess Marie Mata, Ellie García, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Alithia Ramírez and cousins Jackie Cazares and Annabelle Rodríguez.
One more year, 11, was the age of Jailah Nicole Silguero, whose mother wrote in an entry in her Facebook account that the girl’s grandparents were waiting for her in heaven with open arms.
Uziyah García also died, whose death was confirmed at media by her grandfather, Manny Renfro, and Eliahana Cruz Torres, whom her grandfather described as “a pretty girl with a lot of energy.”
(With information from EFE)< /i>