Uvalde gunman threatened rape and school shootings weeks before massacre on social media app Yubo
A Texas school shooter made two FaceTime calls — one of them topless — with a German girl he met on social media, who was told of his twisted murder plan.
Ramos, 18, was filmed posing with his shirt off during a phone call to the girl, known only as CeCe, after meeting her on social media site Yubo.
Other new footage obtained by CNN shows Ramos filming himself holding the phone under his chin and wearing a face mask.
On the day of the massacre, Ramos sent a message to CeCe on Yubo to tell her that he had just shot his grandmother Celia, and that “I’m going to shoot an elementary school.”
Ramos eventually carried out the plan, killing 19 young children at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, as well as two female teachers, before being shot dead.
Ramos threatened to rape girls he spoke to on the Yubo social media app, saying he would skip schools just weeks before the massacre.
The three teenage users, who released the reports to several news outlets, said they did not take the threats posed by Ramos seriously until news of Tuesday’s shooting broke.
Ramos also sent scary selfies to girls he would meet on the app, and reportedly threatened to rape and kill them, and shoot at schools where they lived.
Another new image discovered by CNN featured a short clip of Ramos filming himself wearing a face mask
They also reported threats from Ramos to the app’s support team, including a series of messages from the gunman threatening sexual assault and school shootings.
Yubo is a French social media app created in 2015 designed to “meet new people” and create a sense of community. Developed by TWELVE APP in 2015, it allows users to create video live streams with up to 10 friends. The app currently has 50 million users around the world.
Despite reports to security teams about his troubling behavior, Ramos was still able to keep his profile active on the platform. CeC, his German Yubo friend, says the gunman warned her in the app that he would shoot Robb Elementary School just 15 minutes before opening fire.
Screenshots of the couple’s correspondence, provided by the girl to CNNrevealing that they exchanged messages just after 11:01 a.m. CT — less than half an hour before the massacre had started.
‘I’m telling you’ [right now] wait a minute,” he wrote at 11:08 a.m. “Wait for this bastard,” he then directed, referring to his grandmother, Cecilia Gonzalez. Further text messages sent revealed that Ramos was annoyed by his grandmother, who called AT&T to discuss the teen’s phone bill.
“I just shot my grandmother in the head,” he sent minutes later. ‘I’m going to shoot down an elementary school’ [right now],” read his last text message sent. “I just saw the news…” Cece replied exactly three hours later.
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