“I just shot my grandma in her head,” the shooting suspect said in a text message to the friend, a 15-year-old in Germany that he met on the social networking app Yubo, the Times reported. “Ima go shoot up a elementary school rn,” he added.
A spokesperson for Yubo told Insider in an emailed statement that the company was “deeply saddened,” and cooperating with law enforcement.
“We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable loss and are fully cooperating with law enforcement on their investigation,” the spokesperson for Yubo said. “At this stage, we are not legally able to release any specific user information outside of direct requests from law enforcement, but can confirm that we are investigating an account that has since been banned from the platform.”
The text messages were shared with law enforcement after the mass shooting. According to The Times, the recipient, identified only by her nickname, “Cece,” only understood the gravity of the messages after seeing the shooting on the news, at which point she asked a friend to contact US authorities.
The shooting suspect also told her that he had purchased an AR-15 on his birthday and had more recently bought ammunition that would expand on impact, purchased online and delivered the night before the shooting spree.
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