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According to the FBI, he first sent the messages on the site around 11 a.m., saying he was going to shoot his grandmother. LOPEZ: The only information that was known ahead of the shooting was actually posted by the gunman through private messages on Facebook about 30 minutes before he got to the school. Did he give any signal that he was about to act as he then did? INSKEEP: And I guess we should note these were all, so far as we know, legal purchases by an 18-year-old. And then on May 20, he purchased another semi-automatic rifle. On May 18, he bought 375 rounds of ammunition for that rifle. We also know that the gunman purchased a semi-automatic rifle, an AR-15, at a local sporting goods store on May 17, just days before the shooting. There's also no known mental health record, even though state officials during a press conference yesterday blamed the bulk of what happened on a mental health crisis in that part of the state. Authorities report they haven't been able to find a criminal record, though. LOPEZ: So what we know now is that the shooter dropped out of high school and had recently moved in with his grandmother in Uvalde at the time of the shooting.

To the extent that you know, what is his story? INSKEEP: OK, let's begin with the gunman.

INSKEEP: NPR's Ashley Lopez is on the line. But we begin with bare facts of this investigation.

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We also ask how to protect other schools. In a moment, we'll hear how the community is grieving. They were writing the first chapter of their lives.

Have you seen the photos of children, elementary school kids, who went to school Tuesday morning in Uvalde, Texas?

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