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Minutes before his deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Salvador Ramos allegedly sent a series of chilling text messages to a teenage girl he met online, describing how he had shot his grandmother and was about to "fill her with bullets." A primary school".
According to screenshots reviewed by CNN and an interview with the teen who said she had been in contact with the shooter for weeks, Ramos had complained about her grandmother "being on the phone with AT&T on my phone."
"It's annoying," he wrote in the message.
Six minutes later he wrote: "I just shot my grandmother in the head."
A few seconds later, he said, "I'm going to fill an elementary school with bullets right now."
The message was sent at 6:21 pm CET, 11:21 am in Texas.
That was the last message she sent to the girl.
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The 15-year-old teenager, who lives in Frankfurt, Germany, recounts that she began chatting with Ramos on a networking application on May 9.
Ramos sent the girl videos of her and discussed a plan to visit her in Europe, videos and text messages from her show.
In one of the messages, he sent her a screenshot of a Google travel itinerary from a site near San Antonio, Texas.
“I am going to visit you soon,” she wrote.
She claims that Ramos told her on Monday that he had received a package of ammunition.
She said that he described how the bullets would expand upon contact with someone.
At some point, the girl questioned his plans.
She claims the attacker told her it was a surprise and for her to "wait for it."
On Tuesday at 11:01 am, Ramos called her and told her he loved her, according to the teen.
Then, approximately five minutes later, at 11:06 am CT, she wrote him that she had shot her grandmother.
The girl, whose mother authorized her interview, said she spoke daily with Ramos via FaceTime.
She also said that she communicated with him through a live streaming app called Yubo and that she played games with him on the Plato game app.
In her conversations, she mentions that he was curious about his life in Germany.
"He seemed happy and comfortable talking to me," the girl said.
She claims the attacker told her that she spent a lot of time alone at home.
However, there were some messages that made him alert.
On one occasion, he says, the attacker claimed he was "throwing dead cats into other people's houses."
She says that he gave her the impression that he was a private person.
"Whenever I talked to him," she said, "he never had plans with friends."
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Other sinister messages on Instagram
The 18-year-old shooter who opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, wrote to an Instagram user that he had "a little secret" just hours before he carried out the shooting that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, according to shows a screenshot of the messages posted on the platform.
Three days before the attack, an Instagram account linked to attacker Salvador Ramos posted a photo of two rifles on a rug.
The story tagged another Instagram account in the photo by his name.
The user of the tagged Instagram account wrote in a post-shooting story that Ramos had tagged her and sent her a message out of the blue.
The young woman, who did not include her name on her account and has since made it private, posted several screenshots showing the messages she said she exchanged with the attacker in the days leading up to the massacre.
"What do your weapons have to do with me?"
she asked him, according to the screenshots.
"I am so confused."
“Thank you for tagging you,” Ramos told her, footage showed, and she replied, “I barely know you and you tag me in a photo with some guns.”
In another message that appeared to have been sent the morning of the shooting, Ramos wrote "I'm about to do it" but didn't say exactly what he would do.
"I have a little secret," he wrote in another message.
"I want to tell you," he added.
In messages posted to her story before she made it private, the user said she didn't live in Texas and didn't know Ramos.
The only reason I answered him was because I was afraid of him.
I wish I had stayed awake to at least try to talk him out of committing her crime,” she wrote.
"I did not know, I did not know it".
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