“I have a secret,” the Texas school shooter said on Instagram hours before the attack

Three days before the attack, an Instagram account linked to gunman Salvador Ramos posted a photo of two rifles lying on a rug. The story was tagged with another Instagram account by the same name as it appears in the photo.

The owner of the tagged Instagram account wrote in a story – a message that is only 24 hours on the network -, posted after the shooting, that Ramos had tagged her and sent a message out of nowhere.

The girl, who did not include her name in her account and has since made it private, posted a series of screenshots of messages she said she exchanged with the gunman in the days before the massacre.

“What do your weapons have to do with me?” she asked him, according to the screenshots. “I’m so confused,” the woman said.

“Thanks for tagging you,” Ramos told her.

Screenshots showed that she responded. “I barely know you and you tag me in a photo with some guns,” said the young woman.

In another message that appeared to have been sent the morning of the shooting, Ramos wrote “I’m about to” – but didn’t say what he would do. “I have a little secret,” he wrote in another message. “I want to tell you,” he declared in the message.

In other posts on her story before the account went private, the young woman said she didn’t live in Texas and didn’t know Ramos.

“The only reason I responded to him was because I was scared of him, I would like to stay awake to at least try to convince him not to commit his crime,” she wrote. “I didn’t know,” said the young woman.