UVALDE, Texas—The man who killed 19 children in an elementary school on May 24 posted thrice to Facebook before arriving at the facility, Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday.
About 30 minutes before Salvador Ramos, 18, entered Robb Elementary School and opened fire, he wrote on social media, “I’m going to shoot my grandmother.”
Another post, minutes later, “I shot my grandmother.”
A third, around 15 minutes before the massacre began, “I’m going to shoot an elementary school.”
Apart from the posts, there was “no meaningful forewarning” of the mass shooting, Abbott, a Republican, told reporters during a briefing.
Andy Stone, a spokesman for Facebook parent company Meta, said in a statement that the posts were private one-on-one text messages….