An online gamer reported a fellow player who threatened to “shoot up a school” to the FBI hours before Salvador Ramos went on a deadly rampage at a Texas elementary school.
The woman, who has not been identified, was playing horror-survival game Dead by Daylight on Tuesday with four others online.
The gamer playing the “killer” role became enraged after he lost to the game’s “survivors” and ranted about “going to shoot up a school.”
One of the other players took to Reddit with her concerns.
“So, I have no idea if they were joking or what but they were super angry about losing and started saying they were going to shoot up a school and they mentioned they had some type of gun and kept saying it was going to be all of our fault,” willowbambi wrote on the Dead by Daylight subreddit.
She revealed that she “recorded the entire postchat” and the other players just “brushed it off” but the red flags remained.
“I reported him on the game but is there a way to post the video evidence of him saying it or should I just leave it as is?” she asked fellow Redditors.
Many recommended she report the gamer to the FBI, which she did, along with Behaviour Interactive, the creators of the game, because he “went into detail about the gun and s— they had added to it so they def have gun knowledge at least.”
Once word got out on the subreddit that a shooting had taken place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., she wrote, “the gun he mentioned was an ar15 with I think an extend clip or something but I don’t know. I feel horrible for those children and families.”
A source told the U.K. Sun that Ramos was always making threats online while gaming.
“I do know someone that used to play Call of Duty with him online and he would talk about school shootings all the time,” the Instagram friend of Ramos’ said to the paper, “but everyone on the game always thought he was joking.”
It is unknown if authorities are investigating the report.
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