Then He posted messages on Fb
On Would possibly 25, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott instructed journalists the gunman shared his plans on Fb about half-hour prior to the bloodbath began.
Abbott stated the gunman wrote the next 3 messages and described them as posts:
“I’ll shoot my grandmother.”
“I shot my grandmother.”
“I’ll shoot an fundamental college.”
Now He despatched non-public messages, no longer Fb posts
In a while after Abbott’s feedback, a spokesperson for Meta — the guardian corporate of Fb — stated the messages had been “non-public one-to-one textual content messages that had been came upon after the horrible tragedy befell,” and weren’t public Fb posts.
On Would possibly 27, DPS Director McCraw instructed journalists he sought after to “proper one thing that used to be stated early on within the investigation — that he (the gunman) posted on Fb, publicly, that he used to be going to shoot his grandmother, and secondly after that that he had shot her, and the 3rd that he used to be going to move shoot up a college. That didn’t occur.”
Hours later, Abbott stated he used to be “furious” that he used to be given flawed data prior to talking on the Would possibly 25 information convention.
“I wrote down hand notes intimately about what everyone in that room instructed me in sequential order about what took place. And after I got here out right here in this level and instructed the general public what took place, it used to be a recitation of what other folks in that room instructed me — whether or not or not it’s cops or non-law enforcement officers,” Abbott stated.
“And as everyone has discovered, the guidelines that I used to be given became out partially to be erroneous. And I’m completely furious about that.”
