Throughout the Uvalde capturing, 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 both men got text messages in regards to the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an lively shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor on the school, 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, informed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the faculty earlier that morning and was off responsibility, together with his weapon at house.

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

"Children are popping out the windows," he said.

With people fleeing to a funeral house throughout the street, Albarado said he needed to get inside the varsity as quick as he may.

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

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

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

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

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Reduction. Huge reduction."

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

While Border Patrol brokers had been on the crew 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 stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

During a press conference final week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Security stated the school district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was situated because he thought it was now not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a assessment of the police response.

For his half, Albarado mentioned he wasn't able to evaluate the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I believe they had been doing all the things of their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com