Instagram user @epnupues chats with the shooter. Image: IG capture
Recognized by United States authorities Salvador Ramos in the shooter who entered an elementary school in Texas and killed 21 people (19 children and two adults). The investigation is now looking for the motive for the attack and clues lead, as usual, to social networks and chats.
The young man had 18 years and studying at Uvalde High School. And his heinous crime took place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, about 85 miles west of San Antonio.
There are two data points that predict disaster. One: the photos Ramos sent to a friend showed him his weapons. And another, a chat he had with a girl whom, without his knowledge, he told her he had “a secret to tell you.”
Salvador Ramos posted photos of his rifles on social media. Photo on Instagram.
Weapons
The photos spread on the Internet of Ramos were copied from his Instagram account @salv8dor_which closed minutes after his identity was revealed.
those pictures, they showed him a rifle and charger, was uploaded at the end of April. After the closure of the official Instagram account, it was filled with “fake accounts” that copied the same images.
Plus, a friend of Ramos confirmed that four days ago the attacker “sent him a picture of the AR-15 he was using” and so on “a backpack full of 5.56 cartridgeslikely as seven chargers”.
Salvador Ramos posted photos of his rifles on social media. Photo on Instagram.
In that testimony, this man also commented that Ramos was teased by other students for his clothing and his family’s economic expenses.
chat with a woman
Once the massacre was discovered, a young woman from the Instagram account @epnupues showed up with the stories talking to Ramos.
The Instagram user, whose real name is not known, shared photos of the conversation with Ramos, who wrote to him using the profile @ salv_8dor_. The first interaction between the two is last May 12 and the exchange ended shortly before the tragedy at Uvalde.
without him being knownRamos tagged her in a story where he showed two AR-15 weapons he allegedly used in the shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday. “Will you repost the gun photos I uploaded?” he asked the girl, to which she replied, “What have your guns got to do with me?”
Salvador Ramos posted photos of his rifles on social media. Photo on Instagram.
“I just wanted to tag you. You should be thankful, ”said the young man.
“No”, she answered, it scares me fr (for freak or freaky – derogatory way of saying phenomenon). I barely know you and you tag me in a photo with some weapons. ”That’s where the exchange ended.
On Monday – the day before the massacre – Ramos contacted him again. “I’m close …” the shooter wrote. “About what?”, Replied the girl, who received the following response: “I’ll tell you before.”
Screenshot by @epnupues, who discussed the Texas shooter. Taking a photo on Instagram.
Finally, on Tuesday at 7 am, the user received a final text from the shooter. “I will write to you in an hour, but you have to answer. It’s a little secret and I’ll tell you. Now I will go out to freshen up, “he wrote.
“Maybe I fell asleep, because I’m really sick. But if I’m awake, I’ll talk to you.”
Two hours later, Salvador committed the crime.
In other plates in the stories, the girl makes her disclaimer: “He’s a stranger. I don’t know anything about him. He decided to tag me in his gun post. I feel sorry for the victims and their families, I really don’t I know what to say. “
“My only answerI’m afraid of him. Hopefully I was motivated to at least try to talk him into committing his crime. I don’t know, “he reasoned in grief.
Source: Clarin