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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males obtained textual content messages concerning the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an active shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha said 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 Protection agent, instructed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off obligation, along with his weapon at residence.

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.

"Children are popping out the home windows," he stated.

With people fleeing to a funeral house across the road, Albarado mentioned he wanted to get inside the school as quick as he might.

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

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

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

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

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

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado stated he guided folks to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado said. "Relief. Massive relief."

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

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

"I didn't 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 ok protection."

Throughout a press convention final week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Security stated the school district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they were doing everything in their energy they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com