Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos talked about buying a gun and shooting a school on social media months before the Robb Elementary massacre, Texas Department of Homeland Security director Steven McCraw said Friday. Last September, he asked his sister, The Daily Beast, to confirm that he was in the Navy, to buy him a gun in September last year. “She flatly refused,” McCraw said. On Feb. 28, he had a private Instagram chat with other people in which it was rumored that Ramos could be a school shooter, McGraw said. Three days later, in an Instagram chat with four other people, he said he wanted to buy a gun. On March 3, someone from another group chat wrote to Ramos, “The word on the street is that you were buying a gun,” to which he replied, “I just bought something.” [right now]. ” On March 14, he posted “10 more days,” which prompted a person to ask if he would “shoot the school or something?” Ramos replied, “No, and stop asking silly questions and you’ll see.” McCraw admitted Friday that police officers should have stormed the classroom earlier, but also pointed to the red flags on social media. “Ideally, we could have identified this guy as a suspect and prevented him from attacking before the 24th,” he said.