Throughout the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s wife texted him for help. “I requested my barber if he had a gun,” he said.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men obtained text messages about the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer on the college, and their daughter is a pupil there.

"I requested my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, informed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the faculty earlier that morning and was off duty, with his weapon at house.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, they usually rushed to the chaotic scene. Law enforcement officials were already there, and Albarado began helping.

"Children are coming out the home windows," he mentioned.

With people fleeing to a funeral home throughout the street, Albarado mentioned he wanted to get inside the college as quick as he could.

"I used to be acting as a husband and a father," he said.

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral dwelling, however she advised him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

"I did not know what restroom," Albarado mentioned.

He eventually learned his daughter was in a restroom positioned inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers near the classroom.

"We have to get the youngsters out of here," Albarado stated he advised the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the youngsters out. This is our time."

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado mentioned he guided individuals to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Reduction. Large reduction."

He hugged and kissed her, and soon she was heading to the school car parking zone.

Whereas Border Patrol brokers have been on the group that breached the classroom where the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

"I didn't have my gear, and so it wouldn't have been a good move for me to get into the building," he stated. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

During a press conference final week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Safety stated the varsity district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was located as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

For his half, Albarado stated he wasn't in a position to evaluate the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I consider they have been doing every part in their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com