acob Albarado’s wife is also a teacher at Robb Elementary School who survived the shooting that left 19 kids and two teachers dead.
Working as an agent in Uvalde proved to be beneficial to helped Albarado as he arrived on the scene
“It’s a small community. My wife works at Robb. Everyone at Robb knows me,” he said. “Pretty much all local law enforcement knows me or I know the majority of them, so I was able to go in and I announced who I was and made my way through.” Albarado continued to take kids to safety, while looking for his own daughter. He says a pair of officers offered cover with guns drawn, while he was among those whisking kids and teachers to safety. He continued to help, even after finding out his own family was out of harm’s way.“I could just see kids coming out of the windows and kids coming my way, so I was just helping all the kids out,” he said.
“The police were breaking out the windows on the outside and the kids were jumping out through the window,” he said. “They’re jumping out through the window down the parking lot, down the pavement headed towards the funeral home.”“When I saw my daughter it was a big relief,” he said.