"I'm Going To Shoot An Elementary School"

[SoCalDavidS]

The KILLER posted this to Facebook yesterday, after shooting his Grandmother.

That ends speculation as to where he was headed, and what his intentions were.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Some reports said police were in hot pursuit

but it's not been made clear how he escaped their pursuit, crashed his car, and ran to the school.

[dchill]

3. The hotness of the pursuit was obviously exaggerated.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Yeah, I guess so! /nt

[global1]

6. That's What I'd Like To See Them Explain.....

Also - am I being too suspicious - that he would actually post that he was on his way to shoot up an elementary school. That's seems to convenient to me that he would say that. What was his beef with elementary school students? What's the connection there?

Just asking?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. There was some report

that high school graduates in that town would go to elementary school graduations and high five the younguns when they graduated, and this loser failed to graduate high school. So he was angry?

[milestogo]

2. He shot his grandmother in the face.

What kind of person does that?

[maxsolomon]

14. An angry, suicidal, alienated adolescent male.

There are a lot of them in our sorry Rampage History.

1st, kill your parent/guardian. Now you have nothing to live for but infamy.

2 off the top of my head: Adam Lanza, Kip Kinkel.

[sanatanadharma]

19. Obviously an armed gunner, all other explanations are add-ons not excuses for ignoring guns

Multiple reasons, causes, psychologies, pathologies, desires, egos, voices in the head; none of that matters when the gun in the hand is the one and only common element in all shootings.

Ignoring the carnage of gun is like ignoring the carnage of penis because the binding desire is too personal.

[raccoon]

5. Off to greatest with you! NT

[Nevilledog]

8. It was not posted publicly, it was a private message thru FB

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Ellie Hall
@ellievhall
A Meta spokesperson confirms in the replies to this tweet that Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos DID NOT POST THESE MESSAGES PUBLICLY.

He sent them to another user via Facebook Messenger and, per Meta, they were only discovered after the shooting happened.

Brandon Wall
@Walldo
Texas Gov. Abbott says the only "meaningful forewarning" of the Uvalde schooting was on Facebook about 30 minutes before.

First post "I'm going to shoot my grandmother”

Second post "I shot my grandmother"

Third post "I'm going to shoot an elementary school"
11:30 AM · May 25, 2022

[Hugh_Lebowski]

10. A very important distinction, thanks for clarifying (nt)

[uponit7771]

13. Wonder if FB sent the message to the area police

[Nevilledog]

16. Doubt it. Very unlikely.

FB said it wasn't "discovered" until after the shooting.

I believe the shooting was only like 30 minutes after the posts. How would it even be possible for FB to monitor every private message and act on reporting it?

[Chernevog]

9. Bad information

I understand he was actually heading to his own high school where he had been bullied before he graduated he was so out of control that he crashed his own car in front of the elementary school. People came up to the car thinking somebody was hurt and tried to help them and he came out guns blazing.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Or maybe your information is bad?

Do you have a link?

[XanaDUer2]

12. I heard that on tv

But I don't have a link. Maybe it's all a part of the swirling information going around.

[Chernevog]

15. BBC

"After driving erratically across town, Ramos eventually crashed his car into a ditch near Robb Elementary School. Some bystanders approached the car to offer assistance.

"People thought that he was in trouble and so they jumped out to help him and he came out of his vehicle and started shooting at them," one person told the Spanish language network Telemundo."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61577777.amp

[Nevilledog]

18. So you're just gonna ignore his messages on FB?

You can't use what "other" people thought to infer his actions were spur of the moment.

He said he was going to shoot an elementary school. That's what he did. I don't give any weight to what people "thought" he was doing after he wrecked the car.

[keithbvadu2]

20. The story/truth at the moment?

The story/truth at the moment?

Many big events have sub-stories floating around almost immediately.

It often takes 3 days (or more) to start getting close to the truth.