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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males got textual content messages concerning the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, last 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 teacher at the faculty, and their daughter is a student there.

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

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, they usually rushed to the chaotic scene. Law enforcement officials have been already there, and Albarado began serving to.

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

With folks fleeing to a funeral house throughout the road, Albarado mentioned he wanted to get inside the school as quick as he could.

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

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

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

He finally discovered his daughter was in a restroom located inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers close to the classroom.

"We need to get the youngsters out of right here," Albarado said he informed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the kids out. That is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doors, and Albarado mentioned he guided individuals to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Reduction. Huge aid."

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

While Border Patrol agents were on the staff 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 constructing," he stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

Throughout a press convention final week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Security said the school district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned because he thought it was not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

For his part, Albarado stated he wasn't ready to evaluate the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I consider they were doing all the things in their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com