OMINOUS HINTS IN KILLER’S E-CHATS

Mass shooter Salvador Ramos made chilling online comments in the months before his deadly rampage in Uvalde, Texas, including some about school shootings and others in which he begged his sister to buy him a gun, officials said Friday.

“She flatly refused,” Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at a press conference as he detailed the 18year-old killer’s online activity leading up to Tuesday’s massacre at Robb Elementary School, which left 19 children and two teachers dead.

The gun request came on Sept. 21, 2021, when Ramos (left) was 17 and not of legal age to buy a firearm.

McCraw didn’t identify the sister or say in what manner she had communicated with her brother, who went on to buy two AR-style weapons (inset left) in the days after his 18th birthday last week.

Ramos also had numerous Instagram group chats in which he and other users “discussed Ramos being a school shooter,” McCraw said.

Those conversations started Feb. 28, nearly three months before his attack.

On March 1, a member of a four-person Instagram chat discussed Ramos buying a gun, said McCraw, who quoted from the exchanges.

And on March 3, someone in a four-person chat wrote to Ramos, “Word on the street is you’re buying a gun,” according to McCraw.

“Just bought something rn [right now],” Ramos replied, according to the police official.

On March 14, Ramos posted to Instagram, “10 more days,” suggesting he may have been planning an attack two months before Tuesday’s shooting.

“Are you gonna shoot up school or something?” a user replied — to which Ramos wrote “no” and “stop asking dumb questions and you’ll see,” McCraw said.

It was not immediately clear if all the chats involved the same people.

Despite his bragging, Ramos didn’t buy any weapons until after his birthday on May 16, officials said.