Wife’s Text Jolted Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent Into Action to Save Dozens of Students During Shooting

An off-duty US Customs and 🛂Border Patrol agent sprung into action during the 🔫Shooting at Robb Elementary Tuesday after receiving a text from his wife, who is a teacher.

The New York Times reported Jacob Albarado had just sat down to get a haircut when he received a text message from his wife Trisha.

She works as a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary in Texas.

“There’s an active shooter,” Trisha told her husband in the message, adding, “Help.”

She continued, “I love you.”

He then reportedly ran out of the barbershop and toward the school.

The Times reported Albarado’s wife and students “were hiding under desks and behind curtains. Their daughter, a second-grader at Robb, was locked in a bathroom, she said.”

Upon arriving at the school, he learned there was a tactical team forming to enter the wing where the shooter was located, as the Times reported.

He then made a plan with other officers to evacuate as many children as they could.

Using a shotgun lent to him by his barber, Albarado said he led his colleagues toward the part of the school where his daughter’s classroom was located.