During the Uvalde capturing, 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 both men received textual content messages in regards to the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, instructed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the college earlier that morning and was off responsibility, along with his weapon at house.

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

"Kids are popping out the windows," he mentioned.

With people fleeing to a funeral home across the road, Albarado mentioned he needed to get inside the varsity as fast as he could.

"I was acting as a husband and a father," he mentioned.

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 ultimately realized his daughter was in a restroom situated inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers close to the classroom.

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

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado said he guided people to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado said. "Reduction. Large reduction."

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers have 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 would not have been a smart decision for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough protection."

Throughout a press conference last week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the college 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 now not an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a review of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I consider they had been doing every little thing in their energy they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com