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 said.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males received textual content messages about the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade teacher 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 Protection agent, advised CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the faculty earlier that morning and was off responsibility, along with his weapon at home.

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

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

With folks fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the road, Albarado said he needed to get inside the varsity as fast as he may.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

While Border Patrol brokers were on the group 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 good enough defense."

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

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

"I know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they had been doing all the pieces of their energy they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com