More disturbing information has been revealed about Robb Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos. Hours before the massacre, he sent a message to an Instagram user about the plot and tagged her in photos of his semi-automatic guns days before.
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As previously reported, Salvador Ramos purchased the weapons on his 18th birthday and posted images of the guns on his Instagram story. In the photos, he tagged a female follower from Los Angeles and Ramos asked her if she could repost his guns during a conversation in his direct messages on Friday. He wrote: ‘You gonna repost my gun pics‘ to which she replied, ‘what your guns gotta do with me.’ Ramos then writes, ‘Just wanted to tag you.’Â Hours before the deadly shooting, Ramos sends her another message around 5:45 am and writes, ‘I’m about to.’ The user asks him, ‘About to what’ and he answers: ‘I’ll tell you before 11.’
Ramos continues to tell her that he has a secret that he wants to tell her and exclaims, ‘Be grateful I tagged you.’ The user tells him that his messages are scary and said,’ I barely know you and you tag me in a picture with some guns?’Â The last message he sends says, ‘Ima air out.’Â Hours after the tragic event, the young woman explained in a series of posts that she barely knew Ramos and was horrified after learning about the shooting. ‘He’s a stranger I know nothing about him he decided to tag me in his gun post, I’m so sorry for the victims and their families I really don’t know what to say.’ The only reason I responded to him was because I was afraid of him I wish I stayed awake to at least try to convince him to not commit his crime. I didn’t know,’ she wrote.
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Another Instagram user sent her a message stating that people assumed she was his girlfriend and claimed she was going to finish the job at the accompanying high school. However, she explained that she lived in Los Angeles and knew nothing about the shooting.
According to the Daily Mail, a school friend of Ramos told CNN that he also sent pictures of his gun to him plus a backpack containing ammunition.
‘He would message me here and there, and four days ago he sent me a picture of the AR he was using … and a backpack full of 5.56 rounds, probably like seven mags. I was like, ‘bro, why do you have this?’ and he was like, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ He proceeded to text me, ‘I look very different now. You wouldn’t recognize me,’
The anonymous classmate continued to say that Ramos was bullied at school due to coming from a poor family and was mocked for the clothing he wore. He eventually dropped out of school and worked for a local Wendy’s restaurant before the shooting. He was known to be a quiet person who came to work and picked up his check when pay day arrived.