Texas gunman messaged 'I'm going to shoot an elementary school' on Facebook, governor says.

The post was made minutes before the massacare at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told reporters Wednesday.

May 25, 2022, 7:04 AM PDT / Updated May 25, 2022, 11:24 AM PDT
By Elisha Fieldstadt
The man who gunned down 19 children and two teachers killed in Tuesday’s elementary school massacre messaged "I’m going to shoot an elementary school" on Facebook 15 minutes before he barricaded himself inside a classroom and fired indiscriminately, officials said.

The shooter, identified as Salvador Rolando Ramos, 18, gave "no meaningful forewarning" of the violence he intended to unleash except for the Facebook message and two others that came before it, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told reporters Wednesday.

 The other two messages said: "I’m going to shoot my grandmother" and "I shot my grandmother."

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said the messages were private one-to-one text messages that were found after the shooting. Facebook is cooperating with law enforcement, he said.