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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men acquired textual content messages in regards to the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha mentioned 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 Protection agent, instructed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off obligation, with his weapon at house.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral dwelling across the street, Albarado mentioned he needed to get inside the school as quick as he might.

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

His wife let him know she made it to the funeral house, however she informed him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

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

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

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

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado mentioned he guided folks to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Relief. Big relief."

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

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

During a press conference last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Safety said the school district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was situated because he thought it was not an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a overview of the police response.

For his part, Albarado said he wasn't able to evaluate the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I believe they have been doing all the pieces of their energy they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com