{"id":1505117,"date":"2022-06-06T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505117"},"modified":"2022-06-06T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:52:03","slug":"fact-check-did-an-off-duty-border-patrol-officer-kill-the-uvalde-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-an-off-duty-border-patrol-officer-kill-the-uvalde-gunman\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did An Off-Duty Border Patrol Officer Kill The Uvalde Gunman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-an-off-duty-border-patrol-officer-kill-the-uvalde-gunman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505117&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span>A post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RestoreAmericaNow\/posts\/pfbid06tTVCcxyBdonLm6SW1v4mog4xGPHiiXPrRk7GgfF7kMvdfdtPwbfA5Q7zbrof4YWl\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> claims off-duty Border Patrol agent <\/span><span>Jacob Albarado shot and killed the suspect in the Uvalde school shooting with a gun he borrowed from his barber.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Albarado did run to the school with his barber\u2019s gun and rescued his daughter, he did not kill the suspect.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old male, was identified as the suspect in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas May 24 that left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/25\/us\/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-salvador-ramos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. He was killed by Border Patrol agents after attempting to ambush them as they entered the classroom he was in, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/27\/us\/uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting-friday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlet<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post claims Albarado rushed to the school as he was getting a haircut after his wife, a 4th-grade teacher at the school, sent him a text alerting him of the active shooter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe borrowed his barbers gun\u2026 went into the school despite the police chief who ordered all to stand down, rescued his daughter and wife. And didn\u2019t stop there. He continued to rescue children and kill the gunman,\u201d the post caption reads in part.<\/p>\n<p><span>Albarado<\/span><span> was, in fact, about to receive a haircut when he got a text from his wife about an active shooter and ran to the school with his barber\u2019s shotgun, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/01\/cbp-agent-jacob-albarado-recalls-chaos-after-rushing-into-uvalde-school-to-save-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a>. Both his wife and daughter were uninjured in the attack, the outlet reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The claim that Albarado shot Ramos is false, however. Authorities stated members of a Border Patrol Tactical Unit shot him, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/29\/us\/border-patrol-tactical-unit-explainer-cec\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. The article does not name the officer who killed the gunman.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t shoot the guy,\u201d <span>Albarado said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PJ38IDGZZPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/span> \u201cI never said I shot him.\u201d <span><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/30\/fact-check-uvalde-texas-school-shooting-crisis-actor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Was The \u2018Same Actor\u2019 Present At The Sandy Hook Shooting And The Uvalde, Texas Shooting?)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Albarado did not kill the gunman, he did enter the school and guide people to safety while looking for his daughter, who was locked in a restroom inside her classroom, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/uvalde-shooting-texas-jacob-albarado-off-duty-agent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several instances of misinformation have circulated on social media in the wake of the shooting. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/26\/fact-check-texas-school-shooting-suspect-illegal-immigrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a claim suggesting Ramos was an illegal immigrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims off-duty Border Patrol agent Jacob Albarado shot and killed the suspect in the Uvalde school shooting with a gun he borrowed from his barber.\u00a0Verdict:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}