Tactical Unit, Not Off-Duty Officer, Killed Uvalde Gunman
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Jacob Albarado, who has been described in media reports as an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer, helped students escape the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24. But online rumors falsely claim he was the CBP officer who killed the shooter. Albarado has said in interviews, “I didn’t shoot the guy.”
The timeline of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, as described by officials, has changed several times since the shooting on May 24. So, it’s unclear precisely what happened between when the gunman, Salvador Ramos, entered the building around 11:30 a.m. and when he died a little over an hour later.
But one thing we do know is that Jacob Albarado didn’t kill him.
We know that because Albarado said he didn’t.
Albarado, who has been described in news accounts as an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer, recently addressed a rumor spreading online that he had swept into the school and taken out the shooter amid inaction from first responders.
The rumor embellished upon a story first reported by the New York Times and widely circulated by other outlets that described how Albarado, while off duty, had left a barbershop and gone to the school when his wife, a teacher, texted that an active shooter was there. The couple’s daughter is also a student at the school.
