Moments before killing 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school, teenage gunman Salvador Ramos sent a series of chilling text messages to a girl in Germany whom he befriended online.
Ramos, 18, had been talking to the 15-year-old girl for weeks on social media and FaceTime. In interviews with CNN and The New York Times, the girl, identified by her nickname ‘Cece’ shared details of the messages she received from the gunman before the massacre.
Tuesday morning around 11am, Ramos called the girl to tell her that he loved her. About twenty minutes later, he sent a text: ‘I just shot my grandma in her head.’
‘Ima go shoot up a elementary school rn,’ he added.
The gunman then took off in his grandmother’s car, which he crashed outside of Robb Elementary School. He entered the school without being stopped by school police before barricading himself in a classroom and killing 19 children and two teachers.
Cece told the news outlets that she met Ramos about two weeks ago on Yubo, an app that lets people livestream themselves to strangers. The two had been chatting and talking over FaceTime daily, and he had reportedly also promised to visit the girl in Frankfurt, Germany, where she lives.
On his 18th birthday Ramos called her from a gun store, telling her about the AR-15 rifle he was purchasing. In the following days, Ramos would refer to planning to do something with the gun — but she said it was never clear what.
Cece said she only understood the gravity of the messages she had been receiving after she saw the mass shooting unfolding on the news. She then contacted a friend in the US who helped her get in contact with law enforcement.
‘Maybe I could’ve changed the outcome,’ she told the Times. ‘I just could never guess that he’d actually do this.’
The girl told CNN that Ramos seemed ‘happy and comfortable’ when they talked, but that she could tell he spent lots of time alone at home.
‘Every time I talked to him, he never had plans with his friends,’ she said.
Another red flag, she said, was that he told her he ‘threw dead cats at people’s houses.’ The app Yubo released a statement saying it was cooperating with authorities, according to Business Insider.
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