TEXAS, UVALDE: On Tuesday, May 25, an off-duty patrol agent was getting his hair cut when he received a terrifying text message from his wife Trisha, a teacher at Robb Elementary School. “There’s an active shooter,” Jacob Albarado’s wife Trisha texted him while he was in the barbershop. Help. After Salvador Ramos entered the premises, he said, “I love you.”
Albarado has revealed how he saved his teacher wife’s life, who teaches fourth-grade math and science, as well as assisting in the evacuation of schoolchildren, including his own eight-year-old daughter Jayda, from the primary school where the 18-year-old shooter massacred 19 children and two teachers. The father-of-three reportedly rushed for the school with a shotgun borrowed from the hairdresser shortly after receiving the frantic message from Trisha.
As the massacre progressed, a heartbreaking video shows horrified parents running TOWARDS the Uvalde school
As Ramos went on a shooting rampage, the cop’s wife and the pupils in her class were reportedly hiding beneath tables and behind curtains to avoid the shooter. His daughter had taken refuge in a restroom. When Albarado arrived at the school, he noticed a tactical team planning to infiltrate the wing where the adolescent killer was hiding out, according to The New York Times. He then teamed together with other cops to devise a new approach to save students. “I’m looking for my daughter, but I know what wing she’s in, so I start cleaning all of the courses in her wing,” he explained.
The two cops on the scene provided “cover, while two others escorted the children out on the sidewalk,” according to the NYT account. As they were being escorted to the outdoors, the majority of the evacuees screamed. “Of course, they were all emotional,” Albarado recalled, adding that after seeing his child safe, he hugged her and continued to help other children. He went on to say, “I did what I was instructed to do.”
Albarado afterwards resorted to Facebook to express his feelings about the tragedy that he and other Uvalde families had to go through. “As I’m putting my daughter to sleep, she informs me her team mates sister went away today, and it was also her friend,” he wrote in a now-deleted post. I’m enraged, saddened, and grateful all at the same time. Only time can heal their wounds, and hopefully improvements will be done at all US schools, with teachers being trained and permitted to carry in order to protect themselves and their kids.”
On the social media platform, he has received a lot of appreciation, with one user named Mel Biggs commenting, “Y’all want to know what a hero looks like? “This king is a #GoodGuyWithAGun,” says the king. “Thank God for heroes like my uncle Jacob Albarado,” one user said. “If you’ve read the hero’s story, this brings it all together. Jacob Albarado, thank you very much. “Trisha P Albarado,” said the third.
Meanwhile, Uvalde police officers who were among the first on the scene of the atrocity have been chastised for allegedly failing to act quickly. “The police were doing nothing,” said Angeli Rose Gomez, a mother who saved her two children alone. They were simply standing on the other side of the fence. They had no intention of entering or fleeing.” “Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering the Unlocked Door,” a Facebook account named Mymy Sharona wrote. There will be no lockdown. Nothing. There was so much that could have been done to preserve them. “The cops made a huge blunder.”
“I just don’t understand how they could sit outside for an hour pepper spraying parents and handcuffing them while they were in pain outside the school.” I applaud the parents who went in to try to save their children, especially the hero father who assisted two other border patrol agents in killing the gunman. Jacob Albarado was getting his hair cut when his wife texted him, “Active shooter, need help.” He took off with a shotgun borrowed from the barber. It’s incredible that the cops stood outside for an hour with an active shooter looking for a sniper. “Ugh, I just can’t deal with them,” the message continued.