Through the Uvalde taking pictures, 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 men obtained textual content messages concerning the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade teacher on the school, 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, instructed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the faculty earlier that morning and was off obligation, along with his weapon at residence.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral house throughout the road, Albarado stated he wished to get inside the school as quick as he might.

"I used to be acting as a husband and a father," he said.

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

"I didn't 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 kids out of right here," Albarado mentioned 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 doors, and Albarado said he guided individuals to security.

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

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents were on the team 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 good move for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough protection."

During a press convention last week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Security stated the college district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was located as a result of 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 ready to evaluate the response.

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com