Texas, May 28 : Days after 21 people were shot dead in a school in Texas, it has been revealed that the gunman had earlier threatened rapes and shooting on a social media app ahead of the fateful day.
Salvador Ramos, the gunman, had threatened rapes and school shooting on a social networking app –Yubo — that is used by tens of millions of young people around the world.
Ramos had told the girls that he would rape them, showed off a rifle that he bought, and threatened to shoot up schools in livestreams on the app, CNN quoted several users who had witnessed the threats in recent weeks.
However, the users, all teens, had not taken his threat seriously until they saw the news of Ramos killing 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Three users of the app said that they had witnessed Ramos threatening to commit sexual violence or carry out school shootings on Yubo.
The users had reported Ramos’ account to Yubo about the threats. However, Ramos was able to maintain his presence on the app.
CNN reviewed one Yubo direct message in which Ramos allegedly sent a user the $2,000 receipt for his online gun purchase from a Georgia-based firearm manufacturer.
“We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable loss and are fully cooperating with law enforcement on their investigation,” a Yubo spokesperson said, adding that the company takes user safety seriously and is “investigating an account that has since been banned from the platform.
However, no specific details about Ramos’ account was released.
Meanwhile, it has also been revealed that Ramos’ disturbing social media interactions was not limited to only Yubo. A girl from Germany who met Ramos on Yubo, said she had some troubling interactions with him via text and FaceTime. The 15-year-old said she received text messages from him shortly after he shot his grandmother and before his assault at the elementary school, as CNN previously reported.
The girl said she thought any violent or strange comments Ramos made were in jest. But after the shooting, she said, “I added everything up and it made sense now… I was just too dumb to notice all the signals he was giving.”

with uni inputs