After the heinous massacre led by the 18-year old Salvador Ramos, many personal stories are starting to emerge. Jacob Alvarado, a US Customs and Border Protection agent, who came to rescue his daughter and spouse is one of them.

He was seated on a hairdresser’s chair getting a haircut when he received the terrifying text from his wife. Trisha, This is the name of the lady. She was a fourth-year teacher at the time, and according to the New York Times, she wrote a clear text to her husband about the incident at school.

Alvarado was out of order and had to react quickly. He asked the barber for a shotgun and rushed to go to school. Alvarado spotted a tactical team assembling to enter the wing where the gunman was holed up, so he and several other cops on the site devised a plan to evacuate as many children as possible.

Albarado claimed that he took the team to the school’s wing where his daughter was. “I’m looking for my daughter, but I know what wing she’s in,” he explained in an interview with the New York times, “so I’m starting to empty all the courses in her wing.”

His daughter Jada, an 8-year-old second-grader, got stuck in the bathroom. According to the New York Times, his wife was sheltering behind her desk with his students at the same time.

Alvarado joined the tactical team ready to enrol in school for rescue and shot the suspect.

The kids were “hysterical” when the team led them out of the building and onto the pavement, where they were joined by scores of other children and instructors.

Albarado told the New York Times, “I performed what I was instructed to do.”

 

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