The Uvalde shooter did not post publicly on Facebook that he shot his grandmother and then was going to shoot at a school, Texas Department of Public Safety Col. Steven McCraw said. It was a private message on a Facebook application, he said.
The shooter, Salvador Ramos, asked his sister in September 2021 to help him buy a gun, and she “flatly refused,” McCraw said.
In Instagram chats with four people in March, he discussed buying a gun, McCraw said.
On March 3, one person wrote, “word on the street is you’re buying a gun.” Ramos replied, “just bought something rn,” McCraw said.
On March 14, there was an Instagram post by Ramos in quotations “10 more days.”
“A user replied, ‘are you going to shoot up a school or something?’ The subject replied, ‘no and stop asking dumb questions, and you’ll see,’ McCraw said.