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  • 2022-05-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Border Patrol Officer Jacob Albarado Kill the Uvalde School Shooter? (en)
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  • In May 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it was opening an investigation into the police response to a mass shooting after reports emerged that local law enforcement had waited more than an hour outside of a classroom at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. As many expressed outrage over the police response, a story started to circulate on social media that purported to highlight the heroic acts of an off-duty Border Patrol official, Jacob Albarado. While these posts contained a variety of claims about Albarado, a typical version claimed that he was getting a haircut when he heard about the shooting, that he took his barber's shotgun and rushed to the school, that he was the first law enforcement officer to go into the school, that he evacuated his daughter, his wife, and some other students from the school, that he broke down the door to the classroom where the shooter was killing students, and that he killed the shooter. Here's the text of one viral Facebook post: While Albarado truly rushed to the school after learning about the shooting, and while he truly helped evacuate his daughter and other students, these social media posts exaggerated several details of this story. Most importantly, Albarado did not break down the door and kill the shooter. This social media post starts out with a true statement. According to The New York Times, Albarado was getting a haircut when he received a text from his wife, a teacher at Robb Elementary, about an active shooter at the school. The off-duty Border Patrol officer borrowed his barber's shotgun and rushed to the school, where his daughter attended second grade: While local law enforcement has been criticized for waiting to confront the gunmen, they were on the scene before Albarado arrived. In fact, Albarado spoke to other law enforcement officers before searching for his wife and daughter. NBC News reported: Albarado managed to locate his daughter and get her safely out of the building. After that, he went back to help evacuate other children. He learned via another text message that his wife was already outside the school building and safe. NBC News reported: While it's true that Albarado went to the school to save his family, and while it's true that he helped evacuate his daughter and other students at the school, there's no truth to the claim that he broke down a door to a classroom and killed the shooter. In an interview with Today, Albarado said that he saw officers waiting outside of the classroom where the gunman was located. While Albarado said that he initially thought of helping them breach the classroom, he decided against it. Albarado truly rushed to the school with his barber's shotgun in order to save his wife and daughter after learning that there was an active shooter at Robb Elementary. While Albarado helped to evacuate his daughter and several other children, social media posts distorted the details of this story and falsely claimed that he was singly responsible for breaching the classroom and killing the shooter. In reality, Albarado was not present during this final altercation. (en)
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