Minutes before his deadly attack in Uwalde, Texas, shooter Salvador Ramos claimed to have sent a series of chilling text messages to a girl he met online describing how he had just shot his grandmother and would “shoot (n) a primary school.” “
According to screenshots viewed by CNN and an interview with the teenager, who said she had been in contact with the shooter for weeks, Ramos complained that his grandmother “spoke on the phone with AT&T abojt (sic) my phone.”
“It’s annoying,” he wrote.
Six minutes later, he sent a message: “I just shot my grandmother in the head.”
Seconds later, he said, “I have to shoot at (n) primary school rn (right now).”
It was sent at 6:21 p.m. Central European Time (CET), which was 11:21 a.m. Central Time (CT) in Texas. This was his last message to the girl.
The 15-year-old girl, who lives in Frankfurt, Germany, said she started chatting with Ramos on a social media app on May 9th. Ramos sent the girl selfies and discussed a plan to visit her in Europe, according to videos and text messages.
In one message, he sent her a screenshot of a Google flight route from nearby San Antonio. “I’m coming soon,” he wrote.
She said Ramos told her on Monday that he had received an ammunition package.
She said he told her the bullets would widen when they hit someone.
At one point the girl asked what she intended to do. She said he told her it was a surprise and “just wait for him.”
On Tuesday, at 11:01 a.m. CT, Ramos called and told her he loved her, she said. Then, about five minutes later, at 11:06 a.m. CT, he sent her a message that he had shot his grandmother.
The girl, whose mother gave permission to be interviewed, said she spoke to Ramos every day on FaceTime. She said she also communicates with him through a live social app called Yubo and plays games with him on a game app called Plato. In their conversations, she said he asked about her life in Germany. “He seemed happy and comfortable talking to me,” she said. She said he told her he spent a lot of time alone at home.
There were other text messages, however, that worried her. In one case, she said, he told her he had “thrown dead cats into people’s houses.”
She said she was left with the impression that he was taking care of himself.
“Every time I talked to him,” she said, “he never had plans with his friends.”
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