Salvador Ramos, perpetrator of the Robb School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two adults dead, wrote via private Instagram messages to a young California resident days before the attack he carried out.
The first interaction the two had involved a photo of the killer shown with two AR-15 guns. The picture was uploaded to the stories of the mentioned social network; The strange thing, however, was a label. A user was linked to the post; soon the two were deep in conversation.
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“Will you repost the gun photos I uploaded?” Ramos asked the young woman. However, she immediately replied, “What do your guns have to do with me?” The attacker explained that he just wanted to tag them, then added, “You should be grateful.”
The user @/epnupues continued the exchange with a resounding “no”. He later concluded: “I’m afraid of fr (a pejorative way of saying ‘phenomenon’). I hardly know you and you tag me in a photo with some guns.”
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However, on Monday, the day before the shooting at the first school, Ramos again wrote her incoherent messages. “I’m in…” the conversation began. The young woman asked him to tell her what he was up to and the killer only said that he would tell her before committing his crime.
“I’ll write to you in an hour, but you have to answer. It’s a little secret and I’ll tell you. Now I’m going outside to get some air,” Ramos wrote again, this time Tuesday at 7 a.m., hours before the massacre.
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“Maybe I’m taking a nap because I’m very ill. But when I’m awake I’ll answer you,” she replied. Two hours after that delivery, Salvador Ramos had entered the elementary school to gun down nearly two dozen fourth- and fifth-grade children.