Hole in hat of border agent who killed Texas school shooter shows close brush with death
UVALDE, Tex. (TND) — One photo shows how close an off-duty Customs and Border Protection agent came to death when they confronted and killed alleged Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos.
Obtained by Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, the photo shows the CBP agent's hat, which is ripped at the top.
That tear was supposedly made by a weapon or bullet that grazed the head of the CBP agent in an exchange with the gunman. The agent was reportedly able to kill the shooter, stopping the attack that had already claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
This is the hat the elite, veteran BORTAC Border Patrol agent was wearing when he breached the classroom with a tactical team and engaged/killed the Uvalde school shooter, a CBP source tells me. Graze wound to head. Many BP agents in Uvalde have kids at the school," Melugin says in his tweet that features a photo of the damaged hat.
While the identity of the CBP agent was not revealed to Fox News, it was reported the veteran agent is assigned to South Texas's Del Rio Sector, which includes the Uvalde area and Robb Elementary School, where the shooting occurred.
"U.S. Border Patrol Agents responded to a law enforcement request for assistance re an active shooter situation inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Upon entering the building, Agents & other law enforcement officers faced gun fire from the subject, who was barricaded inside," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Director for Public Affairs Marsha Espinosa said in a tweet on Tuesday, the day of the shooting.
“Risking their own lives, these Border Patrol Agents and other officers put themselves between the shooter and children on the scene to draw the shooter’s attention away from potential victims and save lives,” Espinosa continued in a series of follow-up tweets. "At least one Border Patrol Agent was wounded by the shooter during the exchange of gunfire. On-and-off duty Border Patrol Agents arrived on the scene to assist with transferring students safely to their families and providing medical support."
