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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.”


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The timeline of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, as described by officials, has since the 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.

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