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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males received textual content messages about the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, final 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 trainer at 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 Safety agent, informed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the faculty earlier that morning and was off obligation, together with his weapon at home.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral residence across the road, Albarado said he wished to get inside the school as fast as he may.

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

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral dwelling, but she told him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

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

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

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

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Aid. Massive aid."

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

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 good move for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

During a press conference last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Safety mentioned the college district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom the place 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 review of the police response.

For his half, Albarado said he wasn't in a position to assess the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they had been doing every part of their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com