Throughout the Uvalde capturing, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse 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 males acquired textual content messages concerning the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an energetic shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor at the school, and their daughter is a student there.

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

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and so they rushed to the chaotic scene. Cops were already there, and Albarado began serving to.

"Youngsters are coming out the windows," he stated.

With individuals fleeing to a funeral dwelling throughout the road, Albarado stated he wanted to get inside the school as fast as he might.

"I used to be performing as a husband and a father," he stated.

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral house, but she told him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

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

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

"We need to get the children out of right here," Albarado mentioned he told the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the children out. That is our time."

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Aid. Huge aid."

He hugged and kissed her, and shortly she was heading to the college parking zone.

While Border Patrol agents had been on the group that breached the classroom the place the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

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

During a press conference last week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Safety said the college district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was located because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a assessment of the police response.

For his part, Albarado mentioned he wasn't able to assess the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they were doing everything of their power they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com