Uvalde Police: How Law Enforcement’s Story of the School Massacre Has Changed
afterward He posted a message on Facebook
On May 25, Texas Governor Greg Abbott told reporters that the gunman had shared his plan on Facebook. about 30 minutes before the massacre started.
Abbott said the gunman wrote the following three messages and described them as posts:
“I’ll shoot my grandmother.”
“I shot my grandmother.”
“I will shoot an elementary school.”
The current He sent a private message, not a Facebook post
Shortly after Abbott’s comments, a spokesperson for Meta – Facebook’s parent company – said the messages were “one-to-one private text messages was discovered after the terrible tragedy,” and not the public Facebook posts.
On May 27, DPS Director McCraw told reporters he wanted to “fix something that was said early in the investigation – that he (the gunman) posted publicly on Facebook that he would shot his grandmother, and a second time after that he shot her, and a third time he would shoot at a school. That didn’t happen. ”
Hours later, Abbott said he was “hungry” that he had been misinformed before speaking at his May 25 press conference.
“I wrote down detailed notes on what everyone in that room told me in sequential order about what had happened. And when I come out here on this stage and tell the public what happened, it’s a retelling of what everyone in that room told me – whether it was a law enforcement official. or non-law enforcement officials,” said Abbott.
“And as you all know, the information I was given was partially incorrect. And I don’t like that at all. “
