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For: The Opinion Updated 25 May 2022, 14: 56 pm EDT
The author of the shooting that yesterday left 19 children and two teachers killed in a school in Uvalde (Texas, USA) alerted some 15 minutes before in a Facebook message that he was about to shoot in a school, the state governor reported this Wednesday.
In a press conference, Republican Greg Abbott explained that approximately half an hour before the shooting, Salvador Ramos -as the attacker has been identified- wrote on Facebook that he was going to shoot his grandmother.
A few minutes later, He published another in which he said that he had already shot his grandmother -who was seriously injured-, and in a third message, published a quarter of an hour before the massacre at the school, he indicated that he was preparing to attack a school.
“The only or that we knew after the attack posted by the shooter on Facebook just 19 minutes before to get to school, in his first publication he published ‘I’m going to kill my grandmother’, in the second post he said ‘I already shot my grandmother’, his third post probably 15 minutes before arriving at school he said ‘I’m going to shoot a high school’”, described the Texan governor.
On the other hand, Governor Abbott explained that in addition to the 21 there are dead 05 injured by this event, three of them police officers, although there is no fear for their lives.
The Texan governor also detailed that the weapon used by Ramos was an AR rifle 15, and that, for what is known to date, the young man did not have a criminal record or a history of mental problems.
The attacker was killed by a police officer the Texas Border Patrol.
With information from Efe.
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