In the course of the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse texted him for assist. “I requested my barber if he had a gun,” he mentioned.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males acquired textual content messages in regards to the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

"I requested my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, told CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the school earlier that morning and was off obligation, together with his weapon at house.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and so they rushed to the chaotic scene. Cops have been already there, and Albarado started helping.

"Youngsters are popping out the home windows," he mentioned.

With folks fleeing to a funeral home across the street, Albarado said he needed to get inside the college as fast as he might.

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

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

"I didn't know what restroom," Albarado stated.

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

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

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado said he guided people to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Relief. Massive relief."

He hugged and kissed her, and shortly she was heading to the school parking lot.

Whereas Border Patrol brokers had been on the team that breached the classroom where 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 constructing," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

Throughout a press convention last week, the top of the Texas Department of Public Security stated the school district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was situated as a result of he thought it was not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

For his half, Albarado said he wasn't ready to assess the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I consider they were doing every little thing of their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com